Source: Expression
by Mertcan Güngör & Chapin Lenthall-Cleary
“If we want a campus culture of tolerance and free speech, it turns out who students talk to about politics matters — and friends matter most of all. But here’s the catch. Conservatives who talk politics with friends are more tolerant toward both sides, while liberals who do so are more tolerant only of their own side, and less tolerant of the other. … The difference between conservative and liberals in talking with friends may be because conservatives, as a minority on most campuses, regularly face opposing views, which ends up boosting tolerance more over time. Liberals, meanwhile, can more easily stay in their bubbles, and the data seems to suggest that’s what they’re doing.” [editor’s note: Or perhaps it’s that discussion tends to reveal truth and Stephen Colbert (“reality has a well-known liberal bias”) is correct? Or do he and the authors even mean the same thing by “liberal?”- TLK] (08/28/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/how-campus-conversations-shape-political