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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a look at Holy Cross. A great classics dept, the only Jesuit liberal arts college, and a great track record getting students into law, medicine and PhD programs.[/quote]

You mean the Holy Cross English department that offers

“ Interdisciplinary courses cross-listed with Africana Studies; Catholic Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; and Peace and Conflict Studies”?[/quote]

Jesuits have always cared about marginalized people. The focus is on inquiry and critical reading — not indoctrination.  For example, the Gender studies group condemned the over-turning of Roe v Wade, while others at the school applauded it. It will be debated, but students are not taught a right answer.[/quote]

Ah… so non-Catholics are indoctrinating… because you say so?   Sorry, but I don’t buy it.  What I see in my kid’s humanities classes at an ultra- “woke” SLAC— as reflected by papers he’s sent me to read — are closely reasoned arguments relying on primary source material, and to the extent that there are criticisms, they are comments like “provide more evidence for this” or “what about X alternative explanation.”  Nothing remotely resembling indoctrination.

It seems to me that what bugs people complaining about “woke” colleges is the decline in pro-US, pro-Christian, hetero-normative, pro-white majority, pro-capitalist indoctrination.  
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The PP just told you what they don’t like about woke colleges: students are taught the “right” answers and there is no tolerance for debate.

And why are you reading your college kids papers? Weird. Get a life and cut the apron strings.

Or more likely by your writing style and logical fallacies you are in college or high school yourself.

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