Robert P. George [Archive.org URL]

Grievance identitarianism — be it of the left or the right — impedes the very thing a student is attending university to do: namely, think and learn. It turns a person into a tribalist, someone who, rather than thinking for oneself, outsources one’s thinking to the group.

Remember that the criticism of a belief (or a practice, faith or lifestyle) is not a personal attack, though the natural human tendency to wrap our emotions tightly around our convictions can make it feel as if it is. We should be mindful of one of the key things we all have in common, namely fallibility — any of us can be wrong, and all of us sometimes are wrong. Intellectual humility, therefore, is an essential virtue in anyone who sincerely seeks the truth.

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