Notice how MAGA is always in an uproar about “university indoctrination”
But what they mean is that their precious kids left their small hick town, encountered diversity, and realised that everything that their parents said was bullshit.
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meJess · F
Universities are not diverse, they use diversity as the method to demand adherence to a policy.
That may or may not make them worse or better than parents.
That may or may not make them worse or better than parents.
G7J2O · M
@meJess Fine. For starters there is no national ideology taught at any university (except at Trump’s fake ones).Professors disagree, students disagree, and graduates do not come out with identical politics. So that’s the end of any indoctrination claim lol
What does happen is kids leave home, meet people of different races, religions and identities, and learn how to evaluate evidence instead of repeating what they were told growing up. Research shows attitude changes come from exposure and independence, not brainwashing.
This also happens when people move to cities, join the military, or work with diverse groups. College is not special. Isolation is.
So yes, MAGA is furious that their kids’ views have changed because they’ve discovered that the world is bigger than Hicksville AL. This is why their views have changed. But MAGA can’t accept this, so they click that a professor programmed their kids.
But it’s not indoctrination.
It has another name: growing up.
What does happen is kids leave home, meet people of different races, religions and identities, and learn how to evaluate evidence instead of repeating what they were told growing up. Research shows attitude changes come from exposure and independence, not brainwashing.
This also happens when people move to cities, join the military, or work with diverse groups. College is not special. Isolation is.
So yes, MAGA is furious that their kids’ views have changed because they’ve discovered that the world is bigger than Hicksville AL. This is why their views have changed. But MAGA can’t accept this, so they click that a professor programmed their kids.
But it’s not indoctrination.
It has another name: growing up.
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meJess · F
@G7J2O I am not the one interpreting a reaction to a myriad of considerations as a single rationale that suits a political narrative.
Institutions institutionalise, whether consciously or otherwise, and students will follow the leanings of their professors, consciously or otherwise.
The value of a degree, when compared to the resulting debt, is not always clear.
No go areas for students at some universities, most notably anti semitism recently, and cancel culture for alternative points of view does not suggest open minded diversity.
But to paraphrase your comment to me, say anything that is anti the current administration. It must be a single political reason based on stupidity, and easily fixed by changing the administration, not a situation that requires a more thorough solution.
Institutions institutionalise, whether consciously or otherwise, and students will follow the leanings of their professors, consciously or otherwise.
The value of a degree, when compared to the resulting debt, is not always clear.
No go areas for students at some universities, most notably anti semitism recently, and cancel culture for alternative points of view does not suggest open minded diversity.
But to paraphrase your comment to me, say anything that is anti the current administration. It must be a single political reason based on stupidity, and easily fixed by changing the administration, not a situation that requires a more thorough solution.