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What’s clear to me is that our feeling about University is a bit like the Anna Karenina quote: Happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy

What’s clear to me is that our feeling about University is a bit like the Anna Karenina quote: Happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. In other words, a lot of people are unhappy with college, but everyone has their own ax to grind about why. I will say that I have never experienced any ideological purity tests that conservatives are constantly complaining about. Maybe that’s because I mostly took math and engineering classes.

eimrine 2y ago
So you have happened to finish the grade in US without publicly saying the following words even once - "all races are equal"? It sounds too unbelivable.
- janalsncm 2y ago
  Yeah we never had to read Karl Marx either.
  - eimrine 2y ago
    That is not "either", you just got to have another sort of propaganda.
- kenjackson 2y ago
  Nope. But I did have to do the pledge of allegiance every day until high school.
- Nasrudith 2y ago
  That's what you find objectionable?
  - eimrine 2y ago
    Making a zombie from a human is very objectionable for me even if the content of perpetrator's speaking is legit. If your learning environment suffers from a censourship too much to have an ability to say "I don't want to live with Muslim family in one neibourhood" in school so why the big bro insists the students to say something about race situation? The school got to teach but it also loves to shape.
matrix87 2y ago
> Maybe that’s because I mostly took math and engineering classes. The second you step outside of the stem bubble into liberal arts courses, it's like woke everything Now I will say, there's good woke and bad woke. I had one class that was about sociology and demography of the US-Mexico border. The professor was very respectful, etc etc. Seemed like useful history lessons for someone about to move to California or the southwest I had another that was about the pre-kantian post-scholastic era of western philosophy, the professor didn't actually try to teach, showed up late, when she did show up it was some lecture about feminism. Left a permanent bad taste in my mouth

eimrine 2y ago

So you have happened to finish the grade in US without publicly saying the following words even once - "all races are equal"? It sounds too unbelivable.

janalsncm 2y ago
Yeah we never had to read Karl Marx either.
- eimrine 2y ago
  That is not "either", you just got to have another sort of propaganda.
kenjackson 2y ago
Nope. But I did have to do the pledge of allegiance every day until high school.
Nasrudith 2y ago
That's what you find objectionable?
- eimrine 2y ago
  Making a zombie from a human is very objectionable for me even if the content of perpetrator's speaking is legit. If your learning environment suffers from a censourship too much to have an ability to say "I don't want to live with Muslim family in one neibourhood" in school so why the big bro insists the students to say something about race situation? The school got to teach but it also loves to shape.

matrix87 2y ago

> Maybe that’s because I mostly took math and engineering classes. The second you step outside of the stem bubble into liberal arts courses, it's like woke everything Now I will say, there's good woke and bad woke. I had one class that was about sociology and demography of the US-Mexico border. The professor was very respectful, etc etc. Seemed like useful history lessons for someone about to move to California or the southwest I had another that was about the pre-kantian post-scholastic era of western philosophy, the professor didn't actually try to teach, showed up late, when she did show up it was some lecture about feminism. Left a permanent bad taste in my mouth