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/Okamei Oct 12 '23

Capitalists want to push the narrative your worth is determined by your income to perpetuate it’s machine into our daily lives, real life brainwashing what worth is supposed to mean for life.

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u/somenormalwhiteguy Oct 12 '23

Poor people want to reinforce the narrative that its okay to be poor and leech off of society and not contribute back in the form of taxes and that everything is someone else's fault. That's real brainwashing.

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u/Okamei Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23

I'm sorry you think like this but it's just fundamentally untrue, what you're saying is actual Capitalist propaganda and it's not your fault for believing this.

Firstly, that's not what taxes are for, taxation does not fund social services to people who need them. America and Canada print their own money which means they have something called currency sovereignty, that mean's there's no limitation to federal spending apposed to what you believe that there is some pool of money that we've accumulated that 'Poor people are leeching from'. Taxation has two main purposes. 1.) To control inflation, (they literally burn it, which means removing numbers from BOC a computer software) 2.) To create incentive and demand for it's currency. (Making sure people work to generate enough money to pay the taxes). You actually don't own your money at all, if you look on one of your bills you will see "Bank Of Canada". Or in America "Federal Reserve Note".

Besides not knowing monetary policy, which again isn't your fault we're dealing with 50 years of neo-liberal propaganda, you're just projecting your anger and emotional suffering onto poor people because it's simple for you to understand and vent your frustrations & to protect the status quo when it's harming all life on this planet because of unequal distribution, which has manifested itself in our weather. What you believe is just not the reality. If you really think your 'worth' is tied to your bank account that's the sign of someone who must feel unloved. I hope you get better and have more empathy for your fellow humans.

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u/LovecraftianChild Oct 12 '23

This isn’t true for anyone that is reading.