The Dangers of Echo Chambers on Campus

After Donald Trump’s election, some universities, faculty members canceled classes for weeping, terrified students who asked: How could this possibly be happening? It is when students inhabit liberal bubbles, they’re not learning much about their own country. To be fully educated, students should encounter not only Plato, but also Republicans. Liberal outrage at Trump’s presidency will increase the problem of liberal echo chambers, by creating a more hostile environment for conservatives and evangelicals. At Oberlin College soon after the election, students erupted in protests after a local bakery was accused of racial profiling of a black student in a shoplifting case. The student senate endorsed a boycott of the bakery, and demonstrators carried signs calling the owner a racist. This is because of the bubble that students are taking way to seriously. The weakest argument against intellectual diversity is that conservatives or evangelicals have nothing to add to the conversation. The weakest argument against intellectual diversity is that conservatives or evangelicals have nothing to add to the conversation. Of course, we shouldn’t empower racists and misogynists on campuses.  underscores that we were out of touch with much of America, and we will fight back more effectively if we are less isolated. When universities are echo chambers, they become conservative punch lines, and liberal hand-wringing