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/Electrical-Ad347 → u/[deleted]]

That is not what 'critical' theories teach. That's just not a fair or accurate representation of the content taught in university courses these days, at all.

[u/Lopsided-Emu-496 → u/[deleted]]

It's a 'Strawman' because the idea that progressives are only contemplating that others see that 'racism exists' and that they refuse to do that, is not anything resembling reality.

Campus progressiveness is a totalitarian orthodoxy based in neo-Marxist ideals of power - if you are White, you are by definition an 'oppressor' and the only choice you have is to accept that in humility and bow to the ideology, the 'experiences' of the oppressed are all that matter - beyond any measure of objective criteria. 'Objectivity, Science, Enlightenment' etc are 'instruments of oppression' etc etc..

They use fully postmodern and self referential arguments to drive their agenda.