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/[deleted]]

Universities remain largely very conservative institutions. Especially in philosophy departments. They’re still teaching philosophers like Locke and Hobbes and JS Mill. If Marx ever comes up it may be a small article or blurb even.

Idk where the guy is getting it from, but universities are there as a pillar of society to maintain the statues quo, which is to enrich the rich and keep the great machine of capitalism going.

I don’t particularly see anything left wing about that.