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Accuses universities of brainwashing, offers funds to universities who will do their brand of brainwashing
The P in GOP stands for Projection.
The liberal side is typically over-represented in universities because being exposed to education and differing world views is detrimental to conservative’s way of thinking.
the liberal sided is over represented because conservative viewpoints are systematically discriminated against in most universities.
just bringing them up for discussion is considered sacrilegious. as a grad student I would bring up conservative talking points sometimes in my political philosophy classes and people would socially shun me and call me names for suggesting that conservative viewpoints have any legitimacy whatsoever.
it's one thing to say you are open to differences... and another to be totally closed off to those differences in practice.
and FWIW I went to school int he early 2000s an then later again in the 2010s... and in the 2010s that is when a lot of this 'anti conservatism started. in the 2000s most people I met at uni were totally comfortable with 'conservative' ideas. for example, for a woman to just be a stay at home mom and that be a perfectly valid life. in 2000s nobody cared, but in 2010s all the sudden that became 'controversial' and if you argued a stay at home mom was a valid way for a woman to live her life, you were 'misogynistic'. I was frankly appalled that people thought this way. I noticed they generally were accepting of certain lifestyles and believes, but totally closed off/discriminatory/hostile to others.
You’re giving us a sample size of one which doesn’t really say anything.
That one person could have an off putting personality or subscribe to the more cultural war aspect of modern conservatism which doesn’t go well if you’re talking to members of minority groups.
pretty much.
the asian case against Harvard was a bunch of rich asians being pissed they didn't get more 'slots' at an ivy league school as their ticket to money and power. they had to 'settle' for their kids going to schools one step down where they will still have plenty of access to power and money... but they just won't be the most 'elite'.
both sides are greedy power hungry bastards. they just swap who they blame for societies problems
Are you able to provide a source with liberals doing the same thing in their favor?
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-political-leaning/
2% of the harvard faculty identify as conservative, and only 16% are moderate. it's a problem.
years ago it was more like 20% conservative, still a minority but way more representative of the general population.
some of my best professors were 'conservative' in my time at uni. In today's environment they'd have never been allowed to hired because they would have 'disqualifying' beliefs. That's messed up.
there is also systematic problem with these kinds of incredibly lopsided faculty environments that create a orthodoxy that is inherently problematic to have at an institution of inquiry and learning. exposure to different ideas allows you to challege such orthodoxy. I don't want anyone going to uni to be subject an orthodoxy.
Are you saying that Obama and Biden stacked the university’s hiring practices in favor of liberals?
Can you provide a source for this?
Race to the Top isn’t binding funding to promoting liberal ideals and that second link is broken.
What’s your problem with this?
Do you have anything that backs up your claims on the money flows?
I’m not sure what to look for do you have a source for your claims?
There isn’t a single mention of any of the things from your previous comment in any of those links you sent.
So if you accuse someone of murder a definition of homicide is proof?
These people will never be prosecuted because they did nothing wrong.
That’s why Trump’s DOJ isn’t going after them.
You haven’t been able to tie liberals pulling funding for universities saying things they don’t like.
You haven’t even been able to show the corruption you claim exists.
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No, lack of education, including morons voting third party, is how we got here.
Putin propaganda ✊
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pretty much. people really dislike the ugliness of Trump. But he's showing us how ugly most people really are.
So many people on the left/liberal are 100% OK with corruption, brainwashing etc, they claim to be against. As long as it's their version of it and not a conservative version of it.
i mean, it's always been that way more or less. in the 19th century it was slave owners robbing us until we had a civil war. then after that it was the gilded age until we had the great depression. etc.
only thing that will actually change things is another great social upheaval like a war or economic collapses, or both. you need the vast majority of people to suffer for them to actually want to change anything.
the current system still benefits too many people for their be any need for systematic change. the people in the top 10% of the economic bracket, myself included, benefit way too much from the current system.
but i can tell you that most of my economic peers are totally convinced they are not elites and not benefiting, and their rage is directed towards paying too much tax and being anti-growth.