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Conservative college students - Have you experienced a liberal bias in the attitudes of your professors? (self.Conservative)

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After 30 years of working, I went back to college. I did this partially to support my daughter as she was entering higher education. I thought it would be fun and my employer paid for it.

I had heard here and there that there was a liberal bias on college campuses, but not having attended for quite some time I was ready to see for myself. I was absolutely amazed at what I experienced.

Every single instructor I had made it clear through their lectures and often unsolicited opinions that they were indeed liberal... very liberal. My psychology professor discussed Walmart and Ronald Reagan more than he did psychology. My biology teacher would not entertain even the hint of someone challenging man made climate change.

What were some of your experiences?

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[–]hulking_menaceConservative 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Probably the most irritating thing was attending a mandatory lecture on education from Bill Ayer. I did like that when I tore apart him apart the next class, the professor agreed that Ayer's speech was pretty pointless.

I also remember discussing politics with the one professor I knew to be conservative, and he described how at department meetings the chair was passing out "Kerry" yard signs to everyone. He said it was creepy and made him really uncomfortable when he refused the sign.

[–]ECE113 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh yeah. Most of my professors were open about that and always pushed their political views. I even failed a paper I wrote because the professor didn't agree with my views. Still got an A in the class though haha

[–]Jice151 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

If stories I've read on the Internet are to be believed, I'm either lucky or fortunate or both. I attend a small univeristy in Southern Louisiana. It's a very Red area in a very Red state. People come to class in camo and some students go hunting before and after class. I'm also the President of the College Republicans at my Univeristy, so I like to be adept at both noticing the bias, and countering it, when appropriate. If anything bad happens, I threaten to sue for discrimination against conservative students. I'm an Engineering major so my math and science classes usually never have the topic come up.

That being said story time.

My cal 1 professor was from Minnesota and went off for 30 minutes about how great Jimmy Carter was.

My speech professor was very liberal. Upon finding out I was conservative, he challenged me to a debate on income tax. I also made all my speeches have a conservative slant just to bug him. He gave me an A in the class though.

I took two US histories. One is before and including the Civil War, the other is after it. In the Post-Civil War class, my professor talked about the great joys of unions for months. We were supposed to get all the way to Obama, we stopped in the middle of Wilson's Presidency, which she loved. The Pre-War class was only slanted left because of the forced diversity aspect of college courses. The professor gave it his all to be as politically neutral as possible, which I respect.

My European History since 1648 professor is at least center-right. We opened the class talking about the Hapsburg Empire holding off the Ottoman's from conquering more of Europe. He explained the religious tension between Christians and Muslims. One girl asked why they were fighting. He just replied "because Muslims hate Christians." The whole class was silent, but I was laughing a little. When we got to Marx and Socialism, he explained all the tenants of the philosophies in great detail. He followed it up with "It has never worked. Stalin and Mao ended up killing more people than Hitler." I am now taking his World War 2 class in the Fall.

If you are wondering why all my tales are from Liberal Arts classes, since I'm an Engineer. It's because I am forced to take a lot of these classes to fulfill basic requirements, and I take histories as GPA boosters. Virtually all science and math classes I took stayed on point and never talked about politics.

[–]_Challenger 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm in high school and I see a huge liberal bias in pretty much all my classes. The information they teach isn't necessarily all liberal, but sometimes they will talk to us about their political views and how wrong conservatives are, which just disgusts me.

[–]MrHashish 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm in government right now and my gov teacher wanted to write a paper about why we shouldn't be in the Middle East and essentially throw Israel to the wolves. I wrote my paper exposing every hole in his flawed thinking.

[–]tej88Conservative 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I go to UW Madison, for those who don't know, Madison is known for being very liberal. For one of my liberal arts credits (required by school for whatever reason - could be an entirely different discussion), I had to write a journal entry response to "#BlackLivesMatter" following the Baltimore events. This response was graded subjectively by the same bias professor who actively encouraged students to protest against Scott Walker and also to join the riots for Tony Robertson (police shooting of unarmed black man in Madison). I had to write my response with a liberal mindset as it directly affects my grade.

Another example is from one of my engineering classes. Traditionally, for this class (meets 2-3 times a year), pizza is supplied to the students as the class conflicts with common lunch time. However, as many of you may know, Scott Walker issued budget cuts to UW Madison this year. Although these cuts did not directly affect (actual cuts were made public) my specific engineering program (what pays for the pizza), pizza was no longer supplied. The professor then sent out propaganda via email that these budget cuts were to blame for not having pizza and that we should contact our legislators if we want pizza. I don't mind that we don't get pizza as it is not related to the class, however, the fact that my professor used this to promote his/her political opinions has annoyed me and will continue to as I will be taking more classes from the same professor in the future.

[–]ASK_IF_IM_A_ZERGLING 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Back when I was in school, the only political thing to come up in class was the professor bemoaning liberals getting in the way of advancements in agriculture because they were terrified of GMOs. I studied science, so not much political there

[–]Jrpaul11 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes. And that is a leading reason I am transferring schools. I had one professor this semester who demonized white people, especially men, despite the fact he was one. It was a class on the social anthropology of colonialism, anthropology is a joke field by the way, but he was teaching us white men destroyed all these incredible cultures and subjugated everyone, and generally made the world worse while totally ignoring the fact that without white men, the world would look totally different than it does today. Also had an Islam class, where professor and students defended the actions of ISIS. They sympathized with them (white men are the scourge of the earth don't you know), and said I couldn't understand because I don't know what it's like to be oppressed or some shit like that. I go to a very liberal hippy college in NC, most of our students are very rich white kids from Maryland and DC, or more north.