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> It's not surprising that universities are more left-leaning when the right has taken a stance against higher education and pushes anti-intellectualism for pol
by throwaway894345 5y ago
> It's not surprising that universities are more left-leaning when the right has taken a stance against higher education and pushes anti-intellectualism for political gain.
People do realize that you don't have to choose between the regressive, anti-intellectual right and the regressive, anti-intellectual left, correct? Every time someone criticizes the left, some left-wing person argues that the right-wing is worse as though there isn't a moderate option. We have to choose between overt left-wing propaganda and overt right-wing propaganda--we can't have a media apparatus that at least pays lip service to objectivity and neutrality like we have had for the last few decades.
- wolverine876 5y agoA little confused: We do or don't have to choose? I agree with 'don't'; the idea that everything is politicized propaganda is a tool of the propagandists, like a liar saying 'everyone lies'.
- throwaway894345 5y agoWe do not have to choose. The far-left/far-right dichotomy is a false dichotomy.
- wolverine876 5y agoIt would be much easier if you would just play the game like everyone else.
- kesselvon 5y agoMy point was that universities aren't some kind of left-wing propaganda factory, and that they see universities as hostile to right-wing opinions because they deride the product of a university education. The right-wing opinion on universities and college graduates shifted around the same time that college graduates stopped being a strong GOP constituency.