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The dearth of intellectual diversity plaguing America - The Polytechnic

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True intellectual diversity requires four things: the willingness to pursue non-conformity, the acceptance and even encouragement of opposing views, the humility to accept criticism, and a wide-ranging global catalog of personal knowledge.

Opinion The dearth of intellectual diversity plaguing America October 5, 2020 By Namish Gali Namish Gali Associate Features Editor View this article as it originally appeared on poly.rpi.edu in October 2020 In my lifetime, I’ve seen the internet go from a wild, unabashed landscape of anti-intellectualism, to a substantially larger, wild, unabashed landscape of anti-intellectualism. But no matter how out of control public discourse can seem, great things can happen when two sides come together to produce their best work. While the caricature of a close-minded person—one who huddles in a bunker

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