ConnorEl
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Inherent in the question “who’s going to make the conservative arguments?” is the suggestion that professors or teachers are making arguments at all rather than presenting source texts and other evidence (or in the case of the life sciences, empirical data).
Would anybody on here who teaches fess up to actually making arguments? It feels to me like my experience in higher Ed, even engaging directly with CRT, wasn’t that the professor who put together the reading list was suggesting it was the only way to see the world (or more specifically the law or literature or politics) but rather another lens from which to view the world. And further when I pushed back on some ideas in the text the role of the professor wasn’t advancing liberal or conservative arguments, but trying to be sure I was thinking critically about the arguments presented to me.
Critical thinking…I think you’ve identified the “problem”.