Funding should not be dependent on the political and religious views of staff or students, but it should be dependent on the university creating a climate that is fair to all taxpayers.
Which does not require asking about the religious, political and ideological views or leanings of the staff and students.
In the US, there are campuses that send out “campus climate” surveys that are an attempt to measure the openness to diverse ideas and people (among other things). These surveys do not typically ask about the religious or political views of the respondents. I know this because my campus conducts such a survey without those type of unnecessary questions.
This is not about insuring diversity of viewpoints by opening up discussion - it is a thinly veiled attempt to limiting dissent and opposing viewpoints.
Ah, but you see...according to Metaphor it is an indisputable fact that universities are all hotbeds of liberal (or even socialist and communist) indoctrination
This is an outright falsehood about what I believe, a falsehood you have promulgated despite my explicit words to the contrary.
There's a lot of falsehoods being bandied about in Florida right now.
So that makes your falsehood about me on this board a-okay?
I was using hyperbole, by the way, to mock you. Guess you missed that,
I did not, in fact, miss it. But, since I am held to the rules of the message board, any my hyperbole and obviously counterfactual statements are reprimanded, at the very least others ought also be subject to the same rules.
but anyway...if I misrepresented your position so egregiously in doing so, and you really are opposed to all that, then why pray tell are you spending so much time defending the Florida law?
Because taxpayer-funded campuses should not be hostile to taxpayers, no matter what their political leanings.
You've already stated - in "repeat a lie often enough" fashion - that you believe it is an indisputable fact that universities are overwhelmingly left-wing and there is no evidence to the contrary.
It is a fact that the left and liberals heavily outweigh the right and conservatives in US academia. This bears repetition because deniers gonna deny. Not every university is the same, obviously, but the national pattern is clear and has persisted (and gotten more unbalanced) for decades.
Perhaps you could answer that and then take your righteous indignation down to Florida and put it on a t-shirt to wear to a DeSantis rally....