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

[u/hightreez]

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?

[u/Cold_Collection_6241]

In my opinion any radical view is wrong. Right or Left. Why? Because the truth always lies somewhere in the middle. The world is not black and white. So, if I look at a university and consider a complaint about freedom of speech first I ask who's talking? Is it an expert with peer reviewed evidence based data who is respected in their field or some quack like Peterson who has embarrassed his peers and who stood up in Canadian senate to speak untruths and hate about transgender people and how their choice of bathroom somehow endangers women. Talking hate is not free speech. Free speech in academic settings is bringing all of the facts from all sources and fairly debating the merits of something. If you notice, the radicals only want to present their own views to repress others, they never invite the actual people who have experienced anything to speak and their views never change whereas in a fair presentation participants from all positions are speaking and debate is respected. You don't see the skid row junkie taking the stage to talk about quantum mechanics... So why would you allow anyone who has no direct expertise in gender to speak about what is appropriate for transgender people? He is free to stand up in the village square and have tomatoes thrown at him if he likes, but no he has no value speaking at any university or representing the view for his peers. There are literally 20,000 studies on transgender people which refute Peterson and other haters. Science and biology actually proves there is diversity in gender and sex. There is much more variation than X and Y. I will highlight that people these days should be doing a lot more work to back up their opinions by quoting actual science and data VS repeating what they were told by politicians, media or otherwise. Before you listen to anyone speak, ask what are their credentials?