Engineering programs around the US are gender imbalanced (so many cis dudes), right-leaning, and full of reactionary opinions, but on the coasts they're more commonly dominated by "libertarian" types that claim to be okay with the gay but then still vote Republican "because of taxes".
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There were only 3 open conservatives that I knew of at my university, but I also went to the most progressive arts school in America so, :shrug-outta-hecks:
The liberals at my college were more like the Presbyterian kind and would also believe in stuff like abstinence from alcohol and sex. The only leftists I met were exactly 4 Trotskyites from the ISO who just handed out newspapers. They seemed nice but didn't really do much. Talked with them a few times.
The overwhelming majority of my college classmates were either white reactionaries or southeast Asians studying on a student visa. Engineering was by far the most popular major. The white reactionaries were the southern kind who wanted a theocracy. The foreign students didn't seem to give a shit about America at all, they just wanted to get a degree at an American university and leave.
i should say my college was a glorified community college that was originally a trade school for oil derrick workers. It only existed because Esso (who'd become Exxon later) gave a bunch of money to the city to train petroleum workers
depends on the college, a&m or Baylor probably sucks ass but i wouldn't expect a ton of outspoken conservatives at smaller colleges unless they're only white people
This conversation could have happened anywhere from Rutgers to U.Michigan to Texas A&M.
College Freshmen come out of high school absolutely dripping with reactionary ideology. And depending on who you hang out with, you'll either shake some of that filth off or saturate yourself with it even more thoroughly.
One reality that does kinda creep in and feed the "College Marxists!" narrative is kids coming back from college exposed to views outside the suburban reactionary hot house and challenging their parents on the contradictions.
Jesus what college did you go to, Praeger University?
No I'm just from the south. Is it weird to see conservatives in college?
Engineering programs around the US are gender imbalanced (so many cis dudes), right-leaning, and full of reactionary opinions, but on the coasts they're more commonly dominated by "libertarian" types that claim to be okay with the gay but then still vote Republican "because of taxes".
As long as the gay "isn't rammed down their throats" as :reddit-logo: power users would put it. :susgay:
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taxes or gun laws
There were only 3 open conservatives that I knew of at my university, but I also went to the most progressive arts school in America so, :shrug-outta-hecks:
i should point out that in the area I grew up the furthest left opinion you'll encounter is "we shouldn't do segregation again"
Because segregation is bad or because they want to murder all the minorities?
because everything's so backwards where I'm from that doing segregation again is an open conversation
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The liberals at my college were more like the Presbyterian kind and would also believe in stuff like abstinence from alcohol and sex. The only leftists I met were exactly 4 Trotskyites from the ISO who just handed out newspapers. They seemed nice but didn't really do much. Talked with them a few times.
The overwhelming majority of my college classmates were either white reactionaries or southeast Asians studying on a student visa. Engineering was by far the most popular major. The white reactionaries were the southern kind who wanted a theocracy. The foreign students didn't seem to give a shit about America at all, they just wanted to get a degree at an American university and leave.
i should say my college was a glorified community college that was originally a trade school for oil derrick workers. It only existed because Esso (who'd become Exxon later) gave a bunch of money to the city to train petroleum workers
So based.
depends on the college, a&m or Baylor probably sucks ass but i wouldn't expect a ton of outspoken conservatives at smaller colleges unless they're only white people
I went to a small but "prestigious" university and there were only a few conservatives I knew or knew of and most people hated them
Though maybe it's just my friends who hated them and my friends were good
This conversation could have happened anywhere from Rutgers to U.Michigan to Texas A&M.
College Freshmen come out of high school absolutely dripping with reactionary ideology. And depending on who you hang out with, you'll either shake some of that filth off or saturate yourself with it even more thoroughly.
One reality that does kinda creep in and feed the "College Marxists!" narrative is kids coming back from college exposed to views outside the suburban reactionary hot house and challenging their parents on the contradictions.