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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I felt that most people I knew at Middlebury loved learning and supporting their peers. [/quote]

Perhaps 2-3 decades ago.

Certainly not now.

OP, are you open to going abroad?[/quote]

I was there one decade ago. Is your certainty based on anything?[/quote]

Multiple disgusting and anti-intellectual incidents in the last 5 years.[/quote]

Perpetrated by how many Middlebury students?[/quote]

Way too many[/quote]

I take it you’re a conservative who’s butthurt about recent protests. (I have zero connection to Middlebury.)[/quote]
NP- not conservative and wouldn’t not have kid apply to Midd on the basis of referenced events. Am concerned about increasingly viewing everything as for or against, right or wrong, especially in academia.  What’s now on Facebook has been in academia for the last 8 plus years. It’s a terrifyingly closed mindset.[/quote]

This is 100% false, and it’s a message amplified by the rightwing press.  Do you watch Fox?  Read the WSJ?  Consume other pieces of the Murdoch press?

Universities are a largely tolerant place, and if anything conservatives get special status exceeding the quality of their ideas by virtue of donor funding of speakers and campus orgs.

Anyone who believes universities are mean to conservatives has been hoodwinked by the rightwing press, and by grifters and liars like Jordan Peterson.  
In actual reality, universities are filled with smart people who realize conservative “ideas” are flimsy cover over an ideological agenda designed to benefit billionaires and hurt average Americans.[/quote]

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