A couple comments about college campuses since I have been on them not only as a young kid getting a bachelors, an older adult getting a masters, and a lecturer teaching intro classes and tutoring students on all levels.
I was always politically active and being in economic there was always a healthy debate with my friends and classmates. No right wing ideologies were suppressed in anyway, people were respectful, especially professors. Furthermore, there are outlets for someone with every kind of politics on a college campus. From the anarchist to the communist. The issue many people have is not that their ideology is not represented, it is that is is not the majority.
We as adults, especially young college students, make assumptions about how the world works, this is natural. When people get to college they kinda expect/want to have their assumptions confirmed. For right wingers and conspiracy theorist that usually is not what happens. The lived experience of your classmates, and academic research tend to confirm liberals and progressives assumptions most of all, not always though. So when you can't out talk the research, your professor who is more knowledgeable tells you are wrong, and your classmates out debate you easily because they have the facts on their side, the only play left is to claim their is this grand left wing conspiracy.
If you were a person already predisposed to believing conspiracies, this makes it even easier.
So yes most universities, as do professors than teach Humanities and Social Sciences lend left on the America political spectrum, but that is because they have seen and done the research, not because liberals just self select into being college professors to indoctrinated students.
And I find it funny that people will call liberal soft, snowflakes and too PC all day but take such issue with places where progressives openly and freely express and defend their views. Like these people should ignore their experiences, the friends experiences, a massive amount of academic research just to make you feel more comfortable.
Like I tell my students, you have to be respectful of other people's views, you don't have to coddle them.
The way that people become extraordinarily rich is to create a property right over something that shouldn't belong to an individual. You steal the body of enslaved persons from Africa and make it your own. You seize land from indigenous people and make it your own. You seize mineral rights, grazing land, you seize a government granted monopoly or a government contract. More recently, the great game of privatization has shifted to the taking of existing assets that belong to the public. The standard conservative plan is to sabotage something, declare it dysfunctional and try to privatize it. The post office, k-12 schools, medicaid, medicare, social security, state pensions, the VA, highways, national parks, federal land, parts of the military have all been subjected to this treatment. Sabotage and then attempt to privatize.
Most people do not understand this privatization game systemically. I think this is due to the fact that conservatives (the average joe conservative) thinks that "rich" means owning your own roofing company and having a five bedroom house in the 'burbs. Liberals often time think of rich people as some guy who owns a factory or some other private sector firm. Both would be wrong since they are thinking of the petite bourgeoisie and the grand bourgeoisie, respectively. The super rich almost always have one thing in common, they own something that ought to belong to someone else or to the people as a whole.
Against that backdrop, it is clear what conservative elites are doing to higher education. You bash it, you defund it, you demonize it and at some point you try to privatize it. Conservatives have defunded higher education and has the effect of leaving middle class students in debt and poor student unable to attend at all. With that you can run a psy ops campaign. You tell poor people that education is no good anyway and like all humans, poor and rural people will have adaptive preferences (you want what you can have and you don't want what you can't have). Meanwhile, you send a lot of middle class student back to their childhood home saddled with debt. From their you can divide college students and perspective students along the lines of "useful" and useless" degrees and you can divide them from "skilled trades" students. You can spin student loan debt as a morality tale of those who tried to reach above their station. All the while, you are trying to screw over all workers regardless of education back ground of field of work.
In a sense, the privatization has already happened to some extent. As per student funding has dropped, public universities have taken on short term fixes which are causing long term damage. When you raise fees and admit more wealthy foreign students, you make more money short term but you alienate voters and taxpayers over time. As administrator start acting more and more like captains of industry, conservatives have yet more fuel for their psy ops campaign. The wealthy, well compensated and largely redundant administrative class can be painted as examples of an out of touch liberal elite despite the fact that those well paid administrators are simply applying conservative and Randian principles to their administration.
Considering the conservative animus for and active sabotage of the University, it is amazing how restrained the professoriate is when it comes to demonizing conservatives. When sone neighbor is trying to burn you house down and another is not, it is hard to be even handed when when discussing the goodness of oth neighbors and yet, with few exceptions, we do just that.
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