College that won't inundate my kids with white guilt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I think William & Mary would fit what you are looking for.

What is OP looking for? A good label with very little actual education? A credential with no training in critical thinking?

[Anonymous]

The whole premise for this forum is bullshit. If sincerely interested in colleges that are more conservatively oriented, the OP could have phrased his/her question in just that fashion and received many helpful answers (some of which are lost in the rancor of these exchanges). OP instead - and I would ague intentionally - chose to ask the question in a belittling fashion that was intentionally designed to create a charged conversation, from which nothing useful can be drawn.

[Anonymous]

I don't get it. Many of the folks in this forum who argue that top tier schools do not offer a balanced view of the world likely also believe that the free market fixes supply/demand imbalances. So, it would reason that the lack of options for conservative schools would be fixed through free market forces. Where are the conservative academics? Where do they keep them hidden? Have they been shamed into the shadows and can't find jobs at major universities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I think William & Mary would fit what you are looking for.

Actually a pretty liberal student body.

And we learned critical thinking skills, along with everything else. Most my WM friends have better jobs than the UVA ones, and are happier, besides.

[Anonymous]

I have a lot of white guilt, but I didn't learn it in college. I'm not sure where though. I can't get pedicures because I feel bad that it's always non white people working on white feet.

[Anonymous]

What is "white guilt"? Do white people really feel guilty about being "white"? I don't want to sound naive but why would you feel guilty about your race? I'm not white BTW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise for this forum is bullshit. If sincerely interested in colleges that are more conservatively oriented, the OP could have phrased his/her question in just that fashion and received many helpful answers (some of which are lost in the rancor of these exchanges). OP instead - and I would ague intentionally - chose to ask the question in a belittling fashion that was intentionally designed to create a charged conversation, from which nothing useful can be drawn.

+1000!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is "white guilt"? Do white people really feel guilty about being "white"? I don't want to sound naive but why would you feel guilty about your race? I'm not white BTW.

White guilt. We haz it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I think William & Mary would fit what you are looking for.

Actually a pretty liberal student body.

And we learned critical thinking skills, along with everything else. Most my WM friends have better jobs than the UVA ones, and are happier, besides.

The OP is liberal and so I don't think opposed to a fairly liberal student body. I have several friends on both sides whose kids are there now and all find friends who are like-minded. The college itself seems to be more about education than indoctrination, which is what it sounds like the OP is looking for.

[Anonymous]

I think OPs question is valid but I don't have any recommendations. Igood luck OP, maybe ask your question somewhere else where you may get more balanced opinions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At the the same time, I don't want my children to be indoctrinated into the current white-christian-men-are-to-blame-for-EVERYTHING culture that is so rampant on many school campuses.

It's been some time since I went to college. I don't know what you're talking about. Could you elaborate? If you know this is happening, why don't you know on which campuses it's happening too?

It actually begins before college. My son is in high school and just came home with a paper on white privilege/white guilt. The paper states that if he and his family drive to the grocery store without being pulled over or "targeted" by police, he should chalk that up to the fact that he is white and should have white guilt over it because a minority would not be as fortunate and must fear this every time they go to the store. There were many more examples on the paper of how he is sooo privileged in everyday little things because he is white, should feel guilty about it, and he should understand how white privilege has given his family everything they have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I think William & Mary would fit what you are looking for.

What is OP looking for? A good label with very little actual education? A credential with no training in critical thinking?

Actually just the opposite, a good education with training in critical thinking and not a school that is more or less just good label, as most of those are at the point where they teach nothing but an over the top political agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise for this forum is bullshit. If sincerely interested in colleges that are more conservatively oriented, the OP could have phrased his/her question in just that fashion and received many helpful answers (some of which are lost in the rancor of these exchanges). OP instead - and I would ague intentionally - chose to ask the question in a belittling fashion that was intentionally designed to create a charged conversation, from which nothing useful can be drawn.

+ another. And there are several threads here asking about more conservative schools she could have checked.

[Anonymous]

My family worked in manual jobs after they came to this country, well after the Emancipation Proclamation. They didn't own slaves and didn't profit from slavery. Some of them felt discrimination in hiring as late as the 1950s (against Catholics in public employment). They don't have white guilt, nor do I. My advice to others is:

It's been 150 years since the abolition of slavery, and 50 years since the Civil Rights Act and other landmark legislation. In recent decades, we've had immigrants literally washing up on US shores with just the clothes on their backs and then buckling down and making something of their lives. They don't blame others for their many troubles. Study hard. Lose the attitude. Obey the laws. Patronize the businesses of those who risk all to invest in your community, don't burn them. Stop using "discrimination" as an excuse for everything wrong in your life. Focus on what you can contribute, not what is "owed" to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any good schools whose culture has not been completely overtaken by the "white people are to blame for the world's woes"? And don't tell me to look at Liberty. I mean Ivies and a level below. I feel like the college cultural pendulum has swung so hard to the left. Even Chris Rock says he doesn't do college tours because college audiences are so intolerant! (In the name of tolerance, of course).


Why are you REALLY here in this forum?

To stir shit up. Duh.