silence7Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.
In a 2021 speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy,” then–Senate candidate J. D. Vance declared that universities, as left-wing gatekeepers of truth and knowledge, “make it impossible for conservative ideas to ultimately carry the day.”
Yes - universities are by their very nature in opposition to irrational positions borne of ignorance, hatred, greed and fear.
That is as it should be.
It's always "liberal indoctrination" to them. Because they can't understand that being more exposed to more ideas tends to make you less conservative.
Also, it feels like a tacit admission that their own "education" was really indoctrination. That's probably one reason why they think all education is such.
Also, it feels like a tacit admission that their own "education" was really indoctrination. That's probably one reason why they think all education is such.
They have to work so hard at just propping up their biases (on penalty of hell in many cases) that it’s hard to conceive of a world where other people aren’t also secretly doing that.