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...Among students who self-identify as liberals, some 10 percent said they hear "Disrespectful, inappropriate, or offensive comments" about foreign students at least several times a semester, 14 percent said they hear disparaging comments about Muslims, 20 percent said they hear such comments about African Americans, 20 percent said they hear such comments about Christians, 21 percent said they hear such comments about LGBTQ individuals, and 57 percent said they hear such comments about conservatives.
...Roughly 92 percent of conservatives said they would be friends with a liberal, and just 3 percent said that they would not have a liberal friend.
...Among liberals almost a quarter said they would not have a conservative friend.
..."Self-identified conservative students do in fact face distinct challenges related to viewpoint expression at UNC," the authors conclude.
...They urge "a conversation about how the campus can become more accepting of conservative students as well as more willing to hear and engage with conservative ideas." After all, they ask, "Who would dispute that universities should be places where each idea is considered on its own terms, and not prejudged? Where sincerely held conclusions can be offered up for vigorous and civil contestation? Where students are assumed to be arguing in good faith and where they feel valued and respected, even should they turn out to be wrong?".
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