According to a report at The College Fix, Democrat commencement speakers outnumber Republicans for at least the fourth year in a row.
According to their analysis only six Republican or Republican leaning speakers “compared to 38 Democrat or Democrat-leaning speakers.
Put another way, Democrats account for 86 percent of partisan keynote speakers.”
This year’s speaker ratio is more skewed than last year’s.
Fortunately, there were some center-right-leaning or Republican speakers, including Arthur Brooks, who gave the speech at Vanderbilt University’s graduation.
In addition, Mike Huckabee will speak at Yeshiva University, the school where I graduated.
“Dario Gil, undersecretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy under President Donald Trump, will share the podium at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s commencement ceremony.”
Other Republican and conservative-leaning commencement speakers include former University of Texas quarterback and NFL player Colt McCoy, Eric Dickerson, and Francis Fukuyama.
Still, the overwhelming majority of commencement speakers are liberal or Democrat leaning.
The Graduation speaker list reads like a who’s who of the DNC.
“Democrat New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who will give the commencement address at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who will give the address at Michigan State University, and Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who will give the address at Virginia Tech.”
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock will also give a speech at Georgia Tech.
In other words, it’s skewed in one direction, not toward the center-right.
According to The College Fix, “some colleges will have Republicans at specific school events, but these are not included in the total count because they are only at individual ceremonies for specific schools within a university.”
Sadly, this trend of hosting overwhelmingly liberal speakers is hardly by accident,
“Zach Greenberg, director of faculty legal defense at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said that liberal-leaning speakers at campuswide commencements “reflect the values of the institution.”
Sadly, the “values” of academia tend to be anti-American and leftist.
As Professor Robert George argued in The Washington Post, “A lack of viewpoint diversity is just as scandalous in commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients as it is in faculty hiring and student admissions,” George wrote, adding a course reversal would signal that “institutions honor achievement no matter the political leanings of the achievers.”
The fact that this is still not the case and most colleges seem to view it as acceptable to stick to liberal Democrat speakers reveals yet again how colleges have become, for the most part, dens of liberalism and a lack of critical thought.
