What are the kids like at VT politically?

[Anonymous]

My DC attends VT and is very middle-of-the-road, politically. She says that most other students she meets are as well. No ridiculous protests that interrupt class time and no activists shouting in the faces of anyone. It’s a very respectful campus full of thoughtful people of all political stripes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Va Tech has over 40,000 students - there is every single political view you can imagine.

Undergrad is 30,000.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/virginia-tech-3754

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC attends VT and is very middle-of-the-road, politically. She says that most other students she meets are as well. No ridiculous protests that interrupt class time and no activists shouting in the faces of anyone. It’s a very respectful campus full of thoughtful people of all political stripes.

OP here. This sounds good. DC is pretty socially liberal, is a minority themself, and has a diverse group of friends. But they and there friends have no interest in talking about identity stuff constantly, and are tired of so many things at school being done through an identity lens. It’s shifting them all to a moderate/slightly right place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DC attends VT and is very middle-of-the-road, politically. She says that most other students she meets are as well. No ridiculous protests that interrupt class time and no activists shouting in the faces of anyone. It’s a very respectful campus full of thoughtful people of all political stripes.

OP here. This sounds good. DC is pretty socially liberal, is a minority themself, and has a diverse group of friends. But they and there friends have no interest in talking about identity stuff constantly, and are tired of so many things at school being done through an identity lens. It’s shifting them all to a moderate/slightly right place.

PP here. I hear you - this sounds like my daughter as well, though not a minority. VT students seem to have good heads on their shoulders and common sense. That seems to be the case at many state schools, as opposed to privates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC seems to be leaning fairly independent/slightly right and is tired of the really liberal politics in this area, but also doesn’t like the far right. What are the kids at VT like politically? DC doesn’t want either political extreme, and just wants to focus on school.

It's like any other college campus. There are political groups of all stripes and extremes but most kids are pretty apolitical. Your basic white boy will be just fine. And a little cognitive dissonance would be good for him, anyway.

Don't buy into the weird myth about hyper liberal college campuses. That's just not really a thing. Yeah, there are loudmouths, but that's true on both sides of the political spectrum. And at a school as large as Tech, those communities are really diluted.

VT also has the Corps of Cadets, which brings more of a conventionally conservative (not really right wing) element to the campus culture.

Why would you racistly assume that OP has a white son?

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Anonymous wrote:DC seems to be leaning fairly independent/slightly right and is tired of the really liberal politics in this area, but also doesn’t like the far right. What are the kids at VT like politically? DC doesn’t want either political extreme, and just wants to focus on school.

It's like any other college campus. There are political groups of all stripes and extremes but most kids are pretty apolitical. Your basic white boy will be just fine. And a little cognitive dissonance would be good for him, anyway.

Don't buy into the weird myth about hyper liberal college campuses. That's just not really a thing. Yeah, there are loudmouths, but that's true on both sides of the political spectrum. And at a school as large as Tech, those communities are really diluted.

VT also has the Corps of Cadets, which brings more of a conventionally conservative (not really right wing) element to the campus culture.

Why would you racistly assume that OP has a white son?

OP here. Yes, the assumption was incorrect, but what’s the big deal, and why call PP a racist? This is the exhausting stuff I’m talking about. Everyone’s just looking for problems everywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They run the gamut from far right MAGA types to super left wing SJW pronoun weirdos. But while the extremes are certainly present, the general vibe on campus is much closer to the political middle with maybe a slight lean to the left. Your kid won't have any trouble avoiding both the QAnon and the they/them crowd.

As a traditional conservative, I couldn't possibly care less what people choose to be called nor how they express their gender. Real conservatives believe in freedom.

As someone raised by my devoutly Christian parents to be kind, I find denigrating people based on their requested pronouns to be repugnant, particularly when those people come from a group whose members tend to commit suicide at such an astonishing rate because of exactly this kind of gross, offhand bigotry.

This is refreshing.

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Anonymous wrote:DC seems to be leaning fairly independent/slightly right and is tired of the really liberal politics in this area, but also doesn’t like the far right. What are the kids at VT like politically? DC doesn’t want either political extreme, and just wants to focus on school.

It's like any other college campus. There are political groups of all stripes and extremes but most kids are pretty apolitical. Your basic white boy will be just fine. And a little cognitive dissonance would be good for him, anyway.

Don't buy into the weird myth about hyper liberal college campuses. That's just not really a thing. Yeah, there are loudmouths, but that's true on both sides of the political spectrum. And at a school as large as Tech, those communities are really diluted.

VT also has the Corps of Cadets, which brings more of a conventionally conservative (not really right wing) element to the campus culture.

Why would you racistly assume that OP has a white son?

OP here. Yes, the assumption was incorrect, but what’s the big deal, and why call PP a racist? This is the exhausting stuff I’m talking about. Everyone’s just looking for problems everywhere.

It's DCUM. Everyone is racist.