{"id":187322,"date":"2021-03-02T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187322"},"modified":"2021-03-02T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:00:11","slug":"majority-of-academics-support-discriminating-against-conservatives-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-academics-support-discriminating-against-conservatives-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Academics Support Discriminating Against Conservatives, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajority-of-academics-support-discriminating-against-conservatives-study-shows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/college-lecture.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One in three conservative academics has been threatened with disciplinary action for expressing their beliefs, according to a new study that quantifies academia&#8217;s liberal bias.<\/p>\n<p>Research from the Center for the Study of Partnership and Ideology released Monday shows that conservative professors and graduate students are &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; to face discrimination in academia. University of London politics professor Eric Kaufmann conducted the study, which he says is the first to focus on how academic authoritarianism threatens conservatives on campus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Campus<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/majority-of-academics-support-discriminating-against-conservatives-study-shows\/\"><strong>Majority of Academics Support Discriminating Against Conservatives, Study Shows<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/california-teachers-union-head-wants-schools-closed-just-not-his-daughters\/\"><strong>California Teachers&#8217; Union Head Wants Schools Closed, Just Not His Daughter&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/tufts-student-government-walks-back-impeachment-of-pro-israel-member\/\"><strong>Tufts Student Government Walks Back Impeachment of Pro-Israel Member<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kaufmann analyzed eight surveys of graduate-level professors and doctoral students, the majority of whom said they would not oppose discriminating against their right-leaning peers in some form. Ten percent of academics support outright cancelling or firing conservative professors who express their views.<\/p>\n<p>The study adds a new dimension to recent stories of harassment and intimidation of conservative voices in academia. Conservatives have long been a minority in American universities, but only recently has so-called cancel culture led to a rise in what Kaufmann calls the &#8220;chilling&#8221; effect of self-censorship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The discriminatory impact is huge,&#8221; Kaufmann told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Even without &#8220;punishment mechanisms,&#8221; widespread opposition to conservative views leads to &#8220;powerful conformist pressures that make people keep their mouths shut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those pressures are clearly effective. Seventy percent of conservative academics reported that their department created a hostile environment for conservative ideas, according to the study. Nine in 10 Trump-supporting academics reported that they would not feel comfortable expressing their views to a colleague. And more than half of conservative academics surveyed admitted to self-censoring their research and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufmann told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that the trend is likely to get worse. Twenty percent of academics under 30 support &#8220;dismissing&#8221; peers deemed controversial, Kaufmann said. Thirty percent of doctoral students say they would discriminate against grant bids from right-leaning researchers or decline to promote a conservative peer.<\/p>\n<p>Such discrimination is not limited to universities, Kaufmann observed. &#8220;It&#8217;s become quite pervasive across the U.S., Britain, and Canada. 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