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"Conservatives have criticized identity-based affirmative action because, they suggest, it imposes an expectation on students of color that they will represent what is presumed to be, say, the Black or Latino view on any given issue, which discourages freethinking. Admitting students for viewpoint diversity would turn the holding of conservative ideas into a quasi-identity, subject to some of the same concerns. Students admitted to help restore ideological balance would likely feel a responsibility to defend certain views, regardless of the force of opposing arguments they might encounter.

For professors hired for their political beliefs, the pressure to maintain those views would be even greater. If you had a tenure-track position, your salary, health insurance and career prospects would all depend on the inflexibility of your ideology. The smart thing to do in that situation would be to interact with other scholars who share your point of view and to read publications that reinforce what you already believe. Or you might simply engage with opposing ideas in bad faith, refusing even to consider their merits. This would create the sort of ideological echo chamber that proponents of viewpoint diversity have suggested, often with some justification, leads to closed-mindedness among left-leaning professors."

It might seem obvious to some... but reality can be rather more complicated.
Personally speaking, I'm lazy. Incredibly lazy. I'm motivated by laziness, you could say. So when I'm given a task to do, I tend to find the most efficient way to do it and automate it wherever possible, so as to minimise the actual time / effort spent working. If I can just run a script and get all my work done automatically, that is perfect for me...
... BUT obviously anyone else looking at me would mostly just see me lazing about. I mean it isn't wrong. People don't tend to like that much. And the people who give the impression of being hard workers, even if they take 10x longer to do the same work than I do, seem to get ahead in life.

So... what is your take?