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CNN.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam at Harvard, 2015: "Perhaps it is a natural condition of an insecure human race to seek security in a sense of superiority.... [However] what is needed, as the former Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson said, is a readiness 'to listen to your neighbour, even when you may not particularly like him.' Is that message clear? You listen to people you don't like!"] ARTICLE: American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely as the campus police go after serious conservative thinkers. Colleges promise to give their undergraduates a liberal education, which at its root, the word pertains to liberty. And, at the heart of liberty, is freedom of speech. People always understood this meant protecting and listening to speech with which you disagreed. However, there is an anti-intellectualism on the left. An attitude of self-righteousness that says we are so pure, we're so morally superior, we cannot bear to hear an idea with which we disagree. Liberals think they are tolerant but often they aren't. In 2016, a Pew study found that Democrats ...

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