Did college turn your kids, especially daughters, into political radicals? If so, which college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to keep your DD conservative, you have to keep her home and stupid.

Education leads to more liberal/Democrat views, because the more you know the more you know Republicans are just craven, racist, self-serving hypocrites.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-a908-dfb1-a5df-e90da92d0000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000157-e4e0-df2b-a977-fcfc15350000&nlid=630318

There’s a generalization.

I'm amazed that anyone still identifies as Democrat or Republican. Both sides are ugly, in part because of this hatred of any view that differs from their own.

+1
You can't claim to be a critical thinker when you are a member of a political party and you agree with 90% of what your party is pushing.

I never really viewed these liberal professors as a threat because it was obvious to me that something was wrong with them. I just never took them seriously, as they clearly had no idea how the real world operates. Trying to manipulate impressionable kids is pathetic IMHO.

+2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. All the people here posting angrily about colleges “turning” their kids “woke” are all white :::hard eye rolll::::

Did you read the piece another PP posted, above, written by a black professor? You should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberty. She came back a raving lunatic.

Liberty is the extreme in Christian colleges (I don't see a lot of Christianity in Falwell or the restrictive, right-wing and judgmental culture he fosters). When a friend's kid went there, I was shocked. But, the kid came out supporting her gay friend and standing up to someone bullying her. So, there are kids and faculty thinking there. They just can't always say it out loud!

I know another kid at a different conservative Christian college who came out indoctrinated with Trump election steal crap. That school actively pushed political ideology. Hoping they grow out of that, but when people only get info from a select set of sources and discredit actual news, it's hard! That school did not do due diligence educating.

I went to a more moderate Christian college and shifted far more left during my college time. My professors taught me to think critically in my theology and other classes, which was in contrast to the sermons I heard at my home church. I moved left ideologically and deepened my faith. Win win.

Not sure why OP is worried about left leaning schools. Mine is at a left leaning school, and there is open dialogue. Sure, sometimes there's pressure to view things a certain way, but it's certainly not restrictive like some of the right-wing institutions. My kid also considered a Christian college which tends to be conservative but encourages open discourse and thought growth. She would have been fine there too.

Stop starting fires, OP. Your attitude is the problem. That's more radical than anything you fear.

Would love to get the names of these schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two points:

1. Most professors are NPR-type liberals, not seething angy wokesters. To the extent the "illiberal woke culturual Marxist" stereotype is true they are mostly picking it up from other students. See this as an example:

https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell

2. If your child goes completely buck wild in college - in any way - politically, alcoholically, sexually, whatever - that is on you, my friend. Not the college.

Woah this happened at TASP??????

[Anonymous]

Not my, DC, but a recent grad I know went to Bryn Mawr and is now an environmental activist communist - as in, part of an actual communist party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not my, DC, but a recent grad I know went to Bryn Mawr and is now an environmental activist communist - as in, part of an actual communist party.

Nothing says communist like attending an $80,000/year private college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not my, DC, but a recent grad I know went to Bryn Mawr and is now an environmental activist communist - as in, part of an actual communist party.

Makes sense. Marxism informs the radical left and is now mainstream in a lot of the academic theories that drive what happens in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ever think, OP, that you are the radical here?

I'm not OP, but I think you're all radicals.

+1
I want my kids to attend colleges in which there is NO prevailing dogma, one in which ALL voices are welcome and students and faculty don't cancel people who say things they disagree with. Do these schools exist?

No school is immune from these pressures. Not all schools have totally given in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. All the people here posting angrily about colleges “turning” their kids “woke” are all white :::hard eye rolll::::

Do you have a point? Or is this as profound as you plan to get?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two points:

1. Most professors are NPR-type liberals, not seething angy wokesters. To the extent the "illiberal woke culturual Marxist" stereotype is true they are mostly picking it up from other students. See this as an example:

https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell

2. If your child goes completely buck wild in college - in any way - politically, alcoholically, sexually, whatever - that is on you, my friend. Not the college.

Try talking to graduate students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to keep your DD conservative, you have to keep her home and stupid.

Education leads to more liberal/Democrat views, because the more you know the more you know Republicans are just craven, racist, self-serving hypocrites.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-a908-dfb1-a5df-e90da92d0000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000157-e4e0-df2b-a977-fcfc15350000&nlid=630318

There’s a generalization.

I'm amazed that anyone still identifies as Democrat or Republican. Both sides are ugly, in part because of this hatred of any view that differs from their own.

Me too. I no longer can! I'm a PP who has given up on this thread because it just shows most parents think dogmatic thinking in universities is fine as long your side is winning. Very few posters saw the dogmatic thinking itself as a problem and antithetical to what should be happening at universities.

There are at least three of us who feel this way.

Well, I posted a few times. I hope two of that three aren't just me! Glad to know you, friend without spittle on her screen. We're apparently part of a vanishingly small bunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two points:

1. Most professors are NPR-type liberals, not seething angy wokesters. To the extent the "illiberal woke culturual Marxist" stereotype is true they are mostly picking it up from other students. See this as an example:

https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell

2. If your child goes completely buck wild in college - in any way - politically, alcoholically, sexually, whatever - that is on you, my friend. Not the college.

Try talking to graduate students.

Yes, they are more aware of their rights than undergrads are.

[Anonymous]

I just can't, OP. Please tell us where your kids end up going so I can avoid it for me kids. They don't need to be around people with such idiotic, controlling parents...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two points:

1. Most professors are NPR-type liberals, not seething angy wokesters. To the extent the "illiberal woke culturual Marxist" stereotype is true they are mostly picking it up from other students. See this as an example:

https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell

2. If your child goes completely buck wild in college - in any way - politically, alcoholically, sexually, whatever - that is on you, my friend. Not the college.

Try talking to graduate students.

No grad students at Oxy or Bryn Mawr. The kids are radicalizing each other, as in my TASP example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two points:

1. Most professors are NPR-type liberals, not seething angy wokesters. To the extent the "illiberal woke culturual Marxist" stereotype is true they are mostly picking it up from other students. See this as an example:

https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell

2. If your child goes completely buck wild in college - in any way - politically, alcoholically, sexually, whatever - that is on you, my friend. Not the college.

Try talking to graduate students.

No grad students at Oxy or Bryn Mawr. The kids are radicalizing each other, as in my TASP example.

Bryn Mawr does have grad students