Expressing Conservative Ideas on College Campuses

Many conservatives are upset that only liberal ideas are presented on college campuses. My view:

As in most cases, this is a gray issue.

If you take, for example, the subject of affirmative action, which is as alive today as it was when it arose in the late 1960s, you have, IMO, a decent topic for debate on a college campus.  Conservatives will say that they (those living today) had nothing to do with slavery, that modern America is under no obligation to integrate the descendants of slaves in society, and that any governmental action taken to swing wealth from rich whites to poor blacks is essentially robbery.   Progressives will claim that, based on the way that wealth in the United States was established, and given that we continue to live in a land in which systemic racism is the rule of the day, that affirmative action is ethically required.  Colleges wanting to present these ideas can, and I think should, offer both sides a platform on which to present their viewpoints.

Re: the rest of “conservative values,” it really comes down to what you mean.  If you want someone to come on campus and say, without any basis in fact, that the 2020 election was stolen, that the FBI is corrupt, and that Donald Trump is the true U.S. president you have a problem.

I’m even more concerned about matters of science.  If I wanted to go back to my alma mater and make a play for climate denialism, or the flat Earth, or the lack of efficacy of vaccinations, the science departments would laugh me off the campus, and I think they have the right—and obligation—to do exactly that.