The hardest thing to overcome in students isn’t even the woke sloganeering but the general ultra-liberal sensibility. I gently and patiently steer them away from believing that:
– immigration is always the best thing a person can do. It has no negative consequences, and every obstacle to it should be removed
– making any efforts to preserve a marriage is wrong. People should be completely free to abandon any relationship the moment it becomes uncomfortable
– it’s best to be single and never seek permanent relationships because then you can travel a lot*
And so on.
How does all this come up? you’ll ask. I supervise student research projects, and students endlessly try to massage a work of literature into confirming these bizarre beliefs. Even when a work of literature says the exact opposite, young people’s need to disgorge yet another neoliberal platitude is too strong for them to notice it.
This isn’t something that can be reversed through administrative decisions. Somebody has got to talk to these young people and help them out of this maze of self-defeating beliefs. We let them be consumed by propaganda, and now it will not be easy to bring them back.
* This and the previous point always come from young women. I never had a male student say anything like it. But who’s going to suffer more as a result of adopting this worldview? Obviously, women.
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Hmmm, well, have you ever read of J.D. Unwin’s study…br afraid, be very afraid ;-D
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Well, we are 3 generations into the sexual revolution, so we are about to see if he was right.
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Well, my male hunch is that Unwin might well have been onto something, how is your female intuition ;-D
Actually, I changed my majors and then faculty as feminism increasingly affected academia away back during the 60’s. So I was a little taken back by your now noticeing the gender differences in open discussions on politically correct matters. Sadly, all of those kids have been controlled by language and sometimes by drugs for a dozen years.
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This is one of the reasons why I’ve started to take a more sympathetic view on right wing grift. Left wing grift is simply baked into the system. Vast bureaucracies (the entire trillion dollar education system from k-12 to graduate school, for example) paid for by the public to enforce the talking points you mentioned in your post. It’s impossible compete with that level of grift so what’s a guy to do? All conservatives have left is harebrained buy gold schemes lol. They wouldn’t need to do this if they had access to the real money: taxpayer $$$.
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Xtian & Ilamic revisionist history, to what does it compare? To the stench of a saloon full of vomit.
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Young men tend to chat more about the work than themselves when engaged in a job of work.
Also, they’ve learned the hard way what speaking up in the wrong way – even to agree – with – women teachers will get you.
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