My son attended a university in a solid red state. It didn’t change most of the professors were deep blue.
Freshman year in Intro to American Politics the professor told the class if anyone blames the troubles of the world on Ronald Reagan they will flunk his class. Besides, Reagan hadn’t been president for twenty-four years. My son was relieved by the open mindedness.
One of the first assignments was to write a paper on Occupy. Most of the class just ripped off their opinions on paper. My son went and interviewed people sitting in at Occupy. He wrote about the interviews, the grievances and where he felt there was reason for argument and protest. But he netted out his paper with the best avenue to personal success is individual responsibility and accountability.
He got a D on his paper. What he didn’t understand early in freshman year is professors don’t grade papers. TA’s grade papers. I told him it was likely some tree bark eating, 5’7 130, long hair with a pony tail and John Lennon glasses who graded his paper and detested the personal responsibility and accountability comment. He’s likely a communist into collectivism. Turned out I was right. He complained to the professor. His grade was changed to an A.
When I was in college in the 70’s every single Poly Sci professor I had was a socialist. As long as you wrote what they wanted to hear every class was an easy A. I took as many Poly ScI courses as I could for electives.
I majored in Economics. All the theory professors were socialists. Since my concentration was Quantitative Methodology (now called Analytics) at least math wasn’t political. However, I’ve recently read math is white supremacy racism (eyes rolling as almost all Asian kids ace math classes).
There are very few campuses in the country now where open speech isn’t all liberal. And anti Semitism is way up. It’s an in thing on campuses to denounce Jews and Israel. It’s led by Arab students and followed by liberal lemmings who can’t think for themselves.
I recently had a conversation (heated on her side, calm from me) about Israel. What this person had been taught in college was so one sided it was ridiculous. What she actually knew would fill a thimble. What she didn’t know would fill buckets. But regardless American Jews should not be getting shouted down and physically attacked on college campuses for what’s going on in Israel.
Note: This person led the protest against Wilson’s Bakery in Oberlin OH. The university now owes the Wilson family 44M* in damages. It’s not racism to tackle a black student who is stealing liquor as he runs out the door (since pleaded guilty of theft and assaulting the store owner with three others). He’s just a person stealing regardless of color.
* being appealed since amount exceeds state law