Students should save opinions for appropriate settings
Greatly outnumbered, my roommate felt trampled on, and uncomfortable
Politics is one of the touchiest subjects that can be addressed in a classroom. At a university so diverse, one classroom can be filled with liberals, conservatives, pro-life, pro-choice, equality for all, traditional values.
When impassioned topics are unleashed, students who paid a lot of money to be sitting in that classroom may find their beliefs trashed, laughed at, trampled on or rejected. There is a simple solution to this: keep politics out of the classroom.
Realistically, a hardcore liberal and a hardcore conservative will never see eye-to-eye and the results of a political blowout can be disastrous.
Political topics simply do not belong in a classroom. This has nothing to do with hindering freedom of speech or censoring people's viewpoints. It's about keeping the peace in a setting where everyone has the right to learn and be comfortable.
Unless the class itself has to do with politics and seasoned and rational debates are the norm, then political views should be kept out of class and put where they are more than welcome like at a Young Democrats' Society meeting, an LGBT Equality march, or a Republican candidate rally.
Students shouldn't ignite a political fire, or they may find themselves getting burned.