Honest Political Dialogue? Surely You Jest, TSL

The Student Life's opinion page is always worthy of reading, if only for comic relief. Riddle with bias, it ought to consider renaming itself The Pravda Life. The only distinction I can find between the two papers is the quality of the paper itself.

As I make clear on this blog whenever the issue comes to print, that bias often that bias creeps into its news columns. But let's be clear that its original home is on the opinion page.

Let's see how they cover "politics" are the Claremont Colleges this season. Do they even attempt to find a Republican, libertarian, conservative, or moderate voice to write on campus issues? Don't count on it.

Here are the lowlights of this issue.

• An article entitled, "Campus caucus," which tries to make the case that Rock the Vote is a credible group that ought to promote "education."
  
• An unfunny and unoriginal satire about Republicans by Ben Conway.

But the crown jewel of the issue is clearly the editorial. They tried to make the case that Pomona has a political problem because the slightly less socialist candidate's fliers were torn down. Here's what they had to say.

That such an act of sabotage occurs on this college campus is a sad commentary on the maturity of the political dialogue that occurs here. It denies the legitimacy of supporting Hillary Clinton, something with a variety of serious implications. The incident suggests bigotry. It suggests intolerance. It suggests sexism. Each suggestion is as disturbing as the next, but reveals a disturbing undercurrent among Pomona students. Students must not feel pressure to toe the line of majority viewpoints on campus. While subtle, many students have voiced the opinion that there is a pressure to conform to certain “accepted” liberal ideals. For a school claiming to stress freedom of speech and liberty of opinion, this incident should force us to take a step back and examine ourselves. We must never become complacent in working to keep open dialogue, in which numerous viewpoints can speak and feel comfortable.

Memo to The Student Life: It's hardly "subtle" and you lead the charge by distorting your writers' stories, covering things from only one side, and suggesting hate crimes were none exist.

And while we're add it, no one has a right to feel "comfortable." They do have a right to speech, though, but you were critical of that right during the Minutemen and Jacob Hornberger debate.

I ought to be clear. I actually believe in free speech. When will TSL join the real fight for liberty?