If there’s one thing I dislike more than hearing liberals whine, it’s hearing conservatives whine. It is time conservatives, libertarians, and the center-right stop the pouting, complaining, and babying, and instead begin to understand the reality of the campus political climate. The Cornell Review will forge this path on Cornell’s campus.
By whining, I’m referring to how many conservatives across the nation’s college campuses complain about marginalization, censorship, and the preponderance of liberalism emanating from students, faculty, and administrators. We become no better than our liberal counterparts if all we do is complain, if all we do is throw our hands in the air and give up when confronted by what we already knew was coming.
The extreme Left doesn’t care for open debate or freedom of speech–they seek to censor their opponents. Their standard operating procedures are all lifted from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, which calls for intimidation, fear-mongering, and ends-justify-means political tactics. If we know all of this, and if we know they won’t give these beliefs and tactics up, why do so many campus conservatives complain about these points?
The Cornell Review will continue to expose liberal biases and influences on campus, but we will no longer join in the conservative choir of whining and complaining about them. We will report the facts and then offer opinions and criticisms, but they won’t be baseless moaning and groaning. They will be thoughtful, serious, or sarcastic responses to or refutations of any campus debate, rhetoric, or event deemed to be of sufficient liberal-progressive political nature.
That is why in my letter to the editor published in the Cornell Daily Sun last week, I not only admonished an unwarranted criticism of the Review published by a Sun guest writer, but called for conservatives on campus to no longer let that type of behavior go unchecked. I could have simply called out the criticism and whined about how liberals are allowed to say/write anything they want about conservatives and get away with it (which is true), but that would not have been enough.
In close, I sum up my new position as thus: Conservatives don’t complain, they act.
