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conservative anti-intellectualism really is a disease and it’s getting really annoying talking past a surface level with most people in rural areas now because the nuance is just not there.
Exactly. We are escaping the parent bubble and learning how to think on our own. And we want a better future than what our selfish parents have built for their society.
It’s also a great way to introduce you to predatory capitalism. Student Loan debt is basically robbery of an entire civilization for several rich people who pay off both blue and red political puppets.
No war but a class war.
I went to college in the hope that there would be free thought and robust discussion, thinking that it would be a welcome change from the public education system in high school.
I found greater stupidity instead. Many of my peers lacked any sort of critical thought and this stemmed directly from professors who were more interested in being activists.
Conservatives hate higher education and rational thinking, largely because modern conservatism has embraced an increasingly emotional rather then rational foundation for its views, and hates when highly educated and intelligent people embarass them by using hard facts and scientific evidence rather then conspiracy theories and culture war nonsense.
I studied geophysics in college. We learned about climate change and it was purely from a physical science perspective. Nothing about governments or people or what we should do about it. That and my history class was as close as I ever got to politics. It was history of the world since 1945. There really wasn’t much “liberal bias” or anything in that class. It was just learning what happened after WW2
Never heard of the march through the institutions?
At least when I was in college, they made us read books by open marxists and in order to get good grades in the class we had to agree with their point of view in papers and discussions.
Even if you think this is “intellectual diversity” I’d imagine you’d object to being forced to read anti trans literature and agree with the premises in papers to get an A
God, this comment section is a fucking headache.
No no, sometimes those stereotypes definitely do hold up
college educated tech bros: college is woke and you should not go to college because it will turn you trans
also college educated tech bros: you are too stupid so we want to import college educated tech workers
Lately? My young friend, go read up on McCarthyism.
Anti-intellectualism has been a conservative main stay for DECADES.
The evidence: Pastor Brandon said so
The soft sciences are 90%+ leftists with significant drops as you move into STEM, engineering and business.
The fact is that yes, there is a leftist capture of campuses which leads to the indoctrination of children by tenured professors pushing fluff studies so admins can suck more loan money from the govt teat.
Yeah, thats bullshit. College campuses across the country are over 95% leftist. The idea that you are “bursting your bubble” while only hearing one side of the political spectrum is nonsense.
There are so many things wrong with the college system, the complete pollical one sidedness is just one of them. acting as if colleges are the end-all be all of intellectualism is just elitism/credentialism.
Said my piece, downvote away.
Not true at all. I have two degrees and on countless occasions I was given the choice between agreeing with the professor’s opinions (always left-wing) and getting a bad grade. By my last year I didn’t care about being PC anymore and just started openly disagreeing with them – my GPA plummetted.
Sick Christianity representation without it being negative!
FRFR. Talking with random people irl at bar and stuff is a dice roll of whether I’m gonna meet a cool person or someone who’s brain has been rotted by right-wing trash politics.
I graduated from a good college 2 years ago, and I can say for sure that while I learned a lot of useful information, Universities are a laboratory of leftwing ideologies. Every professor I’ve had after listening enough it’s very obvious are liberals, although some are more obvious and preachy and others keep it to themselves. And history classes teach about a dark and evil America with deep root in slavery and colonialism. Racist, and teaching a worldview of women in history being oppressed. Nothing positive about humanity or democracy. Much of it is true, but looking at a glass half empty. Every few weeks there is a new protest on campus, not about important problems in America, but pro-Palestinian demonstrations or Antireligion protests for something happening 10K miles away
Do universities lean left? Yeah. But it’s not an indoctrination any more than rural areas are indoctrination for right-wing people. Getting exposed to more ideas/people tends to require more government which is why in rural areas they lean right because in those areas the government is perceived as more of a hindrance than help. And in cities it’s reversed.
Conservatives: Colleges are evil cabals using science-magic to brainwash your kids to make Jesus cry and not come to Thanksgiving!
Professors: Please, for the thousandth time, date your paper and cite your source in the correct format!
if professors could indoctrinate students, you would all actually do the damn readings…
Twitter slop again and the mods won’t remove this shit
Yeah can’t say I’ve ever experienced any of the extreme examples people have been throwing around here about being forced to read Marxist literature or the stereotypes being true. I’m not sure where they went or when, but I go to a diverse and STEM-focused school that isn’t extremely political in general, but whenever we have approached touchy subjects, it was with a lot of care and respect.
Rather than risk their children learning about the world they’ve decided to just go ahead and destroy schools and education. Rather than just allowing their kids to broaden their own minds they’ve decided that this world isn’t even worth saving and we should keep all of humanity in the dark over everything. That’s how deep they’re dug in.
Without the basics in life, we don’t know how to manage or proceed.
Conservatives are anti intellectualism? We arent the ones saying you can change your gender, men can get pregnant, illegals help america, etc.
Hmm. When the on-campus democratic socialists tried to disallow a right-leaning writer to speak and that didn’t work, they had the school cancel her meet and greet to allow the DSs to have a panel discussing her points. She wasn’t invited.
Anecdotal evidence, sure, but better than hypothetical
The other day at work somebody was talking about how “everything that they tell you is the truth is actually a lie.” This was about the moon landing or something. I work overnight stocking at a grocery store so I’m sure it doesn’t attract the smartest people but I couldn’t help but think holy shit this country is fucked
Well don’t worry, its in full fucking swing in this comment section. People read this post, got angry; turned around and proved it right.
Edit: This post was a gold mine at finding the idiots to block in this subreddit.
“It’s not the professors” yet liberals professors outnumber conservative professors 12 to 1. If I hear the same perspective from 12 of my 13 professors I’m going to naturally graduate with a bend in the direction of the 12. Even if you like that idea you can’t pretend there isn’t a massive indoctrination effect.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/liberal-professors-outnumber-conservatives-12-1/
I like Pastor Brandon. He can keep his tax break.
So, the curriculum being fed to the children isn’t an issue?
Here’s the thing: most of these people have agendas and want to spew it onto all of you. Critical thinking is a must in this new age of misinformation, propoganda and agenda peddling. There are apologetics classes on every single agenda (from politics to religion), designed to sway you with their words, not facts. The younger generation has its work cut out for it. This is rough. A sea of information surrounding you with static and you won’t know at face value whats actually even true. 😬
It’s fun when the generation responsible for the largest drop in literacy rate of the last 50+ years yaps on about anti-intellectualism. Yall can’t even spell 4 letter words
High school shooters? Must be their brain.
Voting different after education? Must be the schools.