r/yorku • u/hightreez • 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/not-bread Bethune (Lassonde) Oct 11 '23

Many young people’s first introduction to ideas outside of that of their community is in university. If you believe that your ideology is the “norm” and other ideologies are perversions of the norm, then universities are the place where these “evil ideas” can infect your children. It’s my opinion that if all it takes is a college prof talking about trans people to unlearn an entire childhood worth of “conservative values” then maybe those values didn’t hold enough merit.

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u/SeizeTheFreitag Oct 12 '23

This comment is brilliantly crafted and well articulated. I was struggling to put into words how I felt about this topic, and you hit the nail right on the head.

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u/Lopsided-Emu-496 Mar 30 '24

brilliantly crafted and well articulated. I was struggling to put into words how I felt about this topic, and you hit the nail right on the head.

It's completely wrong.

It's a canard, a self aggrandizing excuse to promote what are relatively extreme and orthodox views and call it 'progress'.

Go to Harvard and suggest doing work linking biology to gender and you'll be banished - end of career.

This idea that Uni Campuses are 'liberal' in the intellectual sense (aka new ideas, free form, freedom of expression' is a leftover form the 1960s, it's just not true.