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I use several heuristics to decide which ones are worth my time. Most of them are the ones mentioned by Paul Graham in his essay What you can't say.
Ok, now use those heuristics to establish the following proposition as a university administrator: we should hire Graham instead of Robert, because Graham is a Stalinist.
Probably not since the far left is already over-represented on campuses.
Ok, so to state the obvious, all this has nothing to do with intellectual diversity, but hatred of the left?
Huh? How does hiring even more members of an already overrepresented fringe group promote intellectual diversity?
If you like, you can pick something other than Stalinism. I only said that one because it was something you obviously dislike. Think of some other rare left-wing idea, if you like.
If you'd be so kind, I'd also appreciate some presentation of what you think the political atmosphere in American Universities is like, preferably with citations. I think you and I are coming from entirely different places on this.
Where are all these Stalinists, again? I used an example from the original link, btw.