Are there any conservative colleges in England?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The university experience is intended to open your mind, OP. Don't go looking for a conservative one, as conservative thought is inherently closed-minded and insipid.

Oh my goodness. Is this what all liberal freaks of nature think of conservatives?

[Anonymous]

There are people who are politically conservative and colleges (as in subsets of Oxford) that tend that way, but the social conservatism isn't going to be the variety you're looking for.

I attended Oxford for a year abroad, and there were plenty of British students who has strong, reactionary opinions on the working classes (I know it sounds as though I attended in the Victorian era, but I swear it was the late 20th century) and Christianity, but you won't find a fit there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The university experience is intended to open your mind, OP. Don't go looking for a conservative one, as conservative thought is inherently closed-minded and insipid.

Oh my goodness. Is this what all liberal freaks of nature think of conservatives?

Only the rabid liberal that populates DCUM, ask any of them, they are very open-minded, as long as you fall lock-step with their exact philosophies.

There are plenty of conservative liberals in this area, we are just too scared of the psycho liberals who monopolize every conversation.

I don't recall the OP ever asking for a religion based unversity, but I would suggest the OP specifically define what makes a university conservative in his/her opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The university experience is intended to open your mind, OP. Don't go looking for a conservative one, as conservative thought is inherently closed-minded and insipid.

Oh my goodness. Is this what all liberal freaks of nature think of conservatives?

Only the rabid liberal that populates DCUM, ask any of them, they are very open-minded, as long as you fall lock-step with their exact philosophies.

There are plenty of conservative liberals in this area, we are just too scared of the psycho liberals who monopolize every conversation.

I don't recall the OP ever asking for a religion based unversity, but I would suggest the OP specifically define what makes a university conservative in his/her opinion.

The OP said "preferably Christian". That implies religion based, although what that means in England is very different than what it means here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The university experience is intended to open your mind, OP. Don't go looking for a conservative one, as conservative thought is inherently closed-minded and insipid.

Oh my goodness. Is this what all liberal freaks of nature think of conservatives?

Oh my goodness. Truth is hard to understand, I know.

I object to your use of the word "freaks."

I'm just stating the facts. Conservative thought is inherently backwards and rooted in fear instinct. Conservatives by and large are cowards, afraid of progress. Science has proven that it's an actual mental defect.

[Anonymous]

OP,

Just go to the school in your state that sounds like this:

XYZ State University

Or

University of XYZ

While you are there, just focus on school and don't worry about politics. Contrary to popular belief, it is quite possible to get through a "liberal" school without being involved in the politics.

[Anonymous]

British colleges are even more stupidly awful - further down the rathole of anti-intellectual PC insanity - than American ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The university experience is intended to open your mind, OP. Don't go looking for a conservative one, as conservative thought is inherently closed-minded and insipid.

Oh my goodness. Is this what all liberal freaks of nature think of conservatives?

Oh my goodness. Truth is hard to understand, I know.

I object to your use of the word "freaks."

I'm just stating the facts. Conservative thought is inherently backwards and rooted in fear instinct. Conservatives by and large are cowards, afraid of progress. Science has proven that it's an actual mental defect.

You're only proving how stupid and crazy liberals are with that kind of blather.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

True in the religious sense, but not true in the advocacy sense -- in the UK most students focus on the "conservative" business of learning (or drinking), not on political correctness/ affirmative action/ liberal politics and such

I take it you are not British? If you were you would know that student politics is very much obsessed with political correctness.

Exactly. They are talking out of their backside. British universities were highly radicalized in the 1960s and some even through the 80s. i remember walking past a Lesbian and Gay society meeting at my college and they were discussing the impact of the C word on society. There were student marches and "stand downs" where we stood around an historic monument to prevent National Front demonstrations taking place.

Jesus wept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did study abroad in England in the late 80's. People would regularly knock on my door and say things like

"Hi, I'm Valerie, I'm running as the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist candidate for Student Activity Co-Chair, can I have your vote?" And I stand there trying to think about a Stalinist or Maoist student activity that I would care to join. Luckily, I had other choices, as the Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist candidate was surely only 5 minutes behind. I think that Trotsky at least approved of "reading" as a student activity.
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I am very very far from a Paleo-Con. I think the OP would be horrified by my politics, and label me a socialist, but in England I felt very very conservative.

I'm British and I howled with laughter at this, mainly because it mirrors my own experience at uni. I was a Conservative voter at uni (as in the Conservative Party not what classes as conservative here) and I think I was the only one on campus.

[Anonymous]

I think you're looking for College Confidential. Please go there. Please.

[Anonymous]

Yes, even conservative party supporters are few and far between. And they voted to legalize gay marriage. You are just not going to find the kind of homophobic, bible-thumping, anti-universal healthcare, gun-toting, tea-totaling conservatism in the UK that you get here, I am afraid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

This. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a college with the kind of Bob Jones Christian identity that you seem to be looking for. The Anglican Church is pretty progressive on LGBT issues, gun control is the law of the land, the government pays for birth control, and abortion is settled law.

Better off staying in the US and applying to Liberty or Wesleyan.

No. The Anglican primates just voted the Episcopal Church out of the 80 million member communion for its stance on LGBT issues. Three year in the penalty ox and no promise of being returned to C of E unless they clean their act up. with only l million remaining episcopalians actually attending church in the U.S.A., I doubt this will happen, thus ending ECUSA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

This. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a college with the kind of Bob Jones Christian identity that you seem to be looking for. The Anglican Church is pretty progressive on LGBT issues, gun control is the law of the land, the government pays for birth control, and abortion is settled law.

Better off staying in the US and applying to Liberty or Wesleyan.

No. The Anglican primates just voted the Episcopal Church out of the 80 million member communion for its stance on LGBT issues. Three year in the penalty ox and no promise of being returned to C of E unless they clean their act up. with only l million remaining episcopalians actually attending church in the U.S.A., I doubt this will happen, thus ending ECUSA.

Yes. I am a Calvinist Anglican, and I was very happy to see the Church of England do this. Homosexuality has NO place in the church. The Episcopal Church used to be a wonderful Godly church. Then Liberals destroyed it like they are destroying America.

[Anonymous]

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

This. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a college with the kind of Bob Jones Christian identity that you seem to be looking for. The Anglican Church is pretty progressive on LGBT issues, gun control is the law of the land, the government pays for birth control, and abortion is settled law.

Better off staying in the US and applying to Liberty or Wesleyan.

No. The Anglican primates just voted the Episcopal Church out of the 80 million member communion for its stance on LGBT issues. Three year in the penalty ox and no promise of being returned to C of E unless they clean their act up. with only l million remaining episcopalians actually attending church in the U.S.A., I doubt this will happen, thus ending ECUSA.

Yes. I am a Calvinist Anglican, and I was very happy to see the Church of England do this. Homosexuality has NO place in the church. The Episcopal Church used to be a wonderful Godly church. Then Liberals destroyed it like they are destroying America.

I'm thinking you are reacting to a homosexual encounter at your boarding school. You might need counseling.