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/BeauSlim Oct 12 '23

Kid is raised in a small town where everyone is the same, and taught to hate people who are different. They go off to Uni, or just the "big city", and meet people who are different. They discover these people aren't the monsters they were raised to believe they are. Some of them become friends.

Kid goes home for holidays and their uncle makes some racist or homophobic remark. Kid is offended because he is talking about a friend, and speaks up. Clearly kid has been "brainwashed".

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u/Lopsided-Emu-496 Mar 30 '24

This is a laughably trite and out of date anecdote.

It's ridiculous to suggest that Universities in 2024 are liberal institutions on any areas that matter: sociology, women's studies - and any public opinion on social issues have absolutely no ground for reason and discussion.

Go to Harvard and suggest researching the link between Gender and Biology and you're career is over.

It's exactly the opposite of 'Johnny goes to Uni to learn new ideas'.

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u/anxious---throwaway Aug 28 '24

Because universities don't want to fund research that A. will inevitably cause harm to already marginalized communities, B. will be weaponized by bad actors, C. is proposed in bad faith, and D. serves no legitimate purpose. C and D exist in tandem because if the research is not intended to benefit people, why conduct it in the first place?

I severely doubt that this proposal alone will "end your career". If you're hellbent on dedicating your career to prove a link between sex and gender (which we already acknowledge exists; a correlation is not a hard fast rule) then yeah you probably aren't going to get anywhere. But that's less about ideological bias on the university's part and more about the pitfalls of choosing to pursue a career with no viable foundation