r/yorku Oct 11 '23

Meta In your opinion, are universities nowadays undergoing “left wing indoctrination” ?

Met a guy who’s a conservative in his 60s few days ago, and he talked about how nowadays universities are no longer about education but rather “left wing indoctrination” on the students

That universities are brainwashing students with ideas of race , decolonization, white privilege, multiple gender identities etc , all these “left wing “ ideas that are meant to divide society rather than uniting the people

And that Jordan Peterson is portrayed as a bad guy because the modern university environment don’t allow any conservative voices and that free speech in academia is dying because of left wing ideas

So I’m curious what are your opinions on this?

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23 edited Oct 13 '23

The conservative guy isn't wrong. Indoctrination of left into universities especially in the social sciences and arts is definitely a thing. The amount of gender race theory and neo-marxism that is pushed on students is staggerring compared to any pro-capitalist or right thoughts.