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>on the one hand, we need informed citizenry who can dissect media and think critically That isn't what universities are creating though. They're creating peop
by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
>on the one hand, we need informed citizenry who can dissect media and think critically
That isn't what universities are creating though. They're creating people who think one specific way about the world. The problem is that they only teach Marxist ideas about the 20th century, and you have to go elsewhere to get a balanced and realistic view of what actually happened. My humanities classes 20 years ago all glossed over the horrors of Stalin's gulags, the horrors of Mao's great leap forward, and all the death caused by Marxist ideas being put into practice at a wide scale in the 20th century. I had to learn about all these things from my history classes. My humanities classes were all talking about the evils of capitalism while glossing over the 20-100 million dead from starvation and exposure under totalitarian communist regimes. I can't imagine it's gotten any less biased and one sided in the past 20 years.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoSounds like your college did teach you a rounded viewpoint then?
- Can_Not 6y agoYeah what is this guy complaining about? Learning both sides is now "Propoganda"? They're clearly mad that they didn't experience an echo chamber.
- Loughla 6y ago>My humanities classes 20 years ago all glossed over >I had to learn about all these things from my history classes. So the education provided you with multiple, different viewpoints, then. If you evaluate specific, individual classes, yes, you'll find a bias depending on the specific, individual faculty. I had faculty ranging from those who extolled the virtues of a strong-man in the white house, to those who wanted a complete anarchy. I'm willing to bet most university/college educations contain a little bit of everything. Or, put more simply, wide ranging viewpoints. . . .
- dx87 6y agoDepending on how you define "a little bit of everything", you'd lose that bet. Colleges have always leaned left politically, but the viewpoint imbalance has been getting larger in recent years. The last study I read said that in social sciences, colleges average 17:1 liberal to conservative professors, whereas in previous decades it was around 4:1. My wife got out of teaching at college because the schools were more interested in pushing a far left ideology that appeals to college students than actually giving them a good education.
- adamsea 6y ago> schools were more interested in pushing a far left ideology that appeals to college students than actually giving them a good education. Can you summarize the ideology, instead of merely demonizing it? ;)
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- weakfish 6y agoFWIW as a current _Political Science_ student, my only marxist professor thus far was muzzled by their department...
- adamsea 6y ago> The problem is that they only teach Marxist ideas about the 20th century To you, what is a "Marxist idea" about the 20th century? And if your teacher really did gloss over the crimes against humanity committed by Stalin / the USSR, Mao / the PRRC, then, well, that person was a poor teacher.