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Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M
I think it might be dependent on the subject matter but I think people who like to teach tend to have certain trends of values and are high in things like trait openness which makes them open-minded. I assume you might mean left as the US tends to associate libertarian and left as one thing. Academia tends to find new ways of looking at things also which would follow that hypothesis of academics and teachers being more left-leaning value-wise.
CompTrain82 · 41-45, M
@Ryannnnnn I’m a libertarian and the left in America is certainly NOT libertarian. In fact, Democrats in Congress have lumped libertarians in with the far right as “domestic terrorists”. You may want to examine different viewpoints, but to many profs viewpoints that do not conform to a narrow narrative are forbidden.
Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M
@CompTrain82 I'm aware that that seems to be the case, it's quite strange to me. I think the issue in America has been the shift to the acceptance of far-left politics in culture, and a lot of spaces being controlled by tech companies such as Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc. who are left leaning and thus susceptible to far-left ideology because of open-mindedness and valuing what is deemed as for the greater good. The problem being it falls on the side of authoritarianism, ostracization, and the like.
That and the political climate there is very extreme in general which breeds these levels of discourse.
That and the political climate there is very extreme in general which breeds these levels of discourse.