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>The goal now is to have students be molded into the right shapes that match the political winds of the day (thinking what must be thought). Do you have any ex
by polytely 7y ago
>The goal now is to have students be molded into the right shapes that match the political winds of the day (thinking what must be thought).
Do you have any examples? I feel like I've seen this sentiment expressed before but I can't get a clear image of what people mean when they say something like this.
- swiley 7y agoIt’s because of how universities have replaced vocational training. You want someone who will sit down and do what they’re told and only make noise if there’s a problem.
- Nasrudith 7y agoGenerally cynically it means "because they aren't biased towards my politics and assumptions it is political" regardless of the facts on the ground in a field. Really the closest to "molding" I have seen is more indirect from is a toxic culture of petty academic knife fights with obvious ulterior motives for trying to gin up scandals to get rid of competition for tenure. Like trying to oust a community college professor years later because he made Super Columbine Massacre RPG as a teenager as a satirical art game.
- n4r9 7y agoIt's not clear because it's not very well-founded. There's a vague notion coming from the "alt-right" that universities are being taken over by neo-Marxist post-modernists. I think it's a simplistic rationalisation that some people find comforting or easy to believe somehow. The best data you can get to back is up is the fact that academics tend to be much more left-wing. But that's meaningless; academia might simply be much more appealing to someone with left wing values in the first place. Academics have always been left wing and both the hard sciences and the humanities are left wing.