Re: all single interest activists, of which, in every area, they are legion, eg feminism, negro issues of all kinds, lgbt, all different minorities of every kind, area studies (especially latino), all manner of natural science axes to grind, social science specialties unnumbered:
"They want to receive the emoluments appropriated for teaching one set of doctrines (liberalism), whilst they are teaching another...The hardship amounts to this, - that the people of England are not taxed two shillings in the pound to pay them for teaching, as divine truths, their own particular fancies...Dissent, not satisfied with toleration, is not conscience, but ambition...the complaint is not, that there is not toleration of diversity in opinion, but that diversity in opinion is not rewarded by bishroprics, rectories, and collegiate stalls." Burke, against the Feather Tavern petition, 1772
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