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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the new right wing talking point. I have family who tell me it's "dangerous" and "irresponsible" to send children (especially white males) to college. [/quote]

WRONG.

Wrong again, troll.

It is a left-wing talking point, if anything:   https://www.tearthepaperceiling.org/[/quote]

Take it from Pew. In 2019:

"The share of Americans saying colleges and universities have a negative effect has increased by 12 percentage points since 2012. [b]The increase in negative views has come almost entirely from Republicans and independents who lean Republican.[/b] From 2015 to 2019, the share saying colleges have a negative effect on the country went from 37% to 59% among this group. Over that same period, the views of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic have remained largely stable and overwhelmingly positive."

and...

"In late 2018, 84% of Democrats and independents who lean to the Democratic Party said they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in college and university professors to act in the best interests of the public. Only about half (48%) of Republicans and Republican leaners said the same. In fact, 19% of Republicans said they have no confidence at all in college professors to act in the public interest. And in early 2019, 87% of Democrats – but fewer than half (44%) of Republicans – said colleges and universities are open to a wide range of opinions and viewpoints."

[url]https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/08/19/the-growing-partisan-divide-in-views-of-higher-education-2/[/url]

Also, funny how none of Dem leaning family is concerned with me sending my kids to college. Just the Trump thumpers. [/quote]

Not a trump thumper at all but given [b]the anti-Semitic rhetoric now on campuses[/b], the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC finding their admission policies racist, a number of colleges such as Brown, Emory, Duke and Yale settling claims in regards to colluding and basically price fixing financial aid, and the cost of attending college up 130% when wages have only increased 34% since 1990, can understand the concerns.  [/quote]

The fact is that the current American wave of anti-Semitism is driven by folks like the Oath Keepers and other pro-Trump right wingers.  People repeating the clumsy Fox News narrative that US colleges and the institutions of liberal democracy are anti-Semitic (or that Americans who join the huge number of Israeli Jews who oppose IDF excesses in Gaza are anti-Semetic) are carrying water for Putin and other US adversaries.

-Israeli-American parent of a student at one of these schools[/quote]

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