On college majors and voting preferences
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Many colleges require students of all majors to go through a sociology class now. It's part of how they can propagandize everyone.
This was actually a brilliant racket. Social sciences demand a new position in business. Businesses comply because only the top companies can afford the change and red tape applied by government. “Social sciences” are now taught to every drone student with forced compliance to narrative. Businesses become overrun with sjws trying to validate their gender studies degree and pop, DIE is formed. Now all companies are mass conglomerating to keep up with the new social (academic) and government demands. This is exactly what has happened to healthcare since the 60s
The local college in my town straight up renamed its philosophy department to the "social" philosophy department.
I mean, you can say the quiet part out loud, but putting it right out in the open like that is practically hubris.
The sociology class I took in college was actually really fun. Teacher would bring up a study and then we’d all essentially all discuss it. Which would turn into a debate, that would eventually point out how bs the study was, or how the study appeared to be biased to achieve results desired by those who paid for the study. Was not what I expected.
This, this so many times over. THIS is what college classes USED TO BE like and what college classes SHOULD be like. The best college classes still are.
I was a History and Computer Science double major.
About 3/4 of my history classes were GREAT. If you could back up your argument, even if the professor disagreed, you were fine. You had to be able to be provide evidence and make a strong argument. The professors completely encouraged new ways of looking at questions, sometimes disconcerting the average leftist students in the class.
The other 1/4 were taught by mostly younger and most female professors, and they were strongly political and strongly left wing. If you made the right argument, you got a good grade, even if your work was lazy. If you made the "wrong" argument (i.e., if you disagreed with the professor), you got a bad grade, even if your research and writing was strong.
My experience was also that students know exactly who these professors are and either avoid them or just toe the party line if you end up in a class with one.
It's a real shame.
Without being to specific, my time in college was in the past decade. I watched this crazy stuff start popping up in college classes. Luckily they didn’t have that much power back then and I’d laugh at them and point out how wrong they were in class. And because most department heads were the older style professors they couldn’t do too much about it. I’d have sources and examples to back up my arguments. But once they started to become department heads or in charge of their own studies they made sure to turn their departments into indoctrination camps.
In general, there are a few gay socjus courses that cover a bunch of the 'requirements', but you can also just take a few relatively normal classes, like 'Introduction to Logic' or 'Music Writing 101'.
Regrettably, this is how I learned that I will never have any musical talent.
A way they get students to take socjus classes is by promising that it will be easy "A"s. As long as what you write aligns with their viewpoint, of course.
It's understandable that students taking a heavy load of math and science don't want to also have to work hard at social studies.
Essentially. They also stretch definitions of various credits. At some colleges, there are 'intro to gay studies' classes that cover like three different Gen. Eds, while something like Music and Ancient Germany covers one.
I can only imagine what is taught in a gay studies course, sheesh. It's bad enough that people consoom so much pornography now.
I had to take social science electives, and I've been out of college for a while.
And the students who vote Republican are usually cast from the same mold as Mitt Romney. Our College Republicans was full of a bunch of humorless scolds who'd narc all the internal filesharing networks to campus IT.
Hmm you may be as old as I am. Do the kids have "filesharing" these days?
I have no idea what they do these days.
We used DirectConnect hubs and later WASTE when the former were shut down. Then these jackasses somehow got access to WASTE and shut that down too. When the smoke cleared I think some of the guys who set it all up got kicked out of the dorms for their troubles.
We had something called Flatlan, and then the school installed a packet shaping device to stop people from using the entirety of their external bandwidth for external filesharing. I feel like file sharing has peaked, because kids nowadays use shared Netflix passwords and streaming accounts for music.
You'll own nothing and be happy
It was a weird time. I remember I had a 100GB hard drive, and it could be filled by ~8hrs download on the Internet2. All free. Either you paid for physical media or you copied for free, but physical copies had higher resolution. I2 never materialized by name, but bitrates support streaming now, and most people aren't worried about how much they can store locally
Haha oh man, I haven't thought about DirectConnect in YEARS.
My first year at college, Windows network browsing was still enabled, so you could just browse to someone's computer if they had file sharing enabled. There was one guy who was notorious for having like 50gb of porn freely shared. If you said the name of his computer on campus, chances are someone around would be like "oh heck yeah!"
I had dialup up at home, so yeah, that was different.
Come to think of it, I made a copy of that whole archive...I wonder if I still have it on an old HDD somewhere.
The sociology classes I was forced to take were the easiest I ever had. I just took really good notes during class, and occasionally turned those notes into 'papers'. Because I was basically parroting back to the prof exactly what they'd said, I got high marks every time.
Not worth the cost of tuition.
The math is wrong. Reading this, I thought something was off, and I was right. I found the source. The chart above show's the top 6 majors for bachelor's degrees. Even then, his numbers are wrong. The actual numbers are:
These account for 74% of bachelor's degrees issued 2018-2019.
His premise that college graduates are evenly split is wrong too. Pew Research found that college graduates skew democratic. My calculations say 59% of college graduates are Democrats.
I found this web site. that lists majors by political leaning. No idea where the numbers come from, but presumably they have a basis other than an assumption.
So let's begin again. We assume social science, psychology, communications & journalism, visual & performing arts, and education are more about political indoctrination than anything else. These make up 27% of college grads. Using the numbers provided above, I find that ~23.3% of college grads are Democrats and have these majors. If we take these majors out, we get 48.9% Democrats. So, without these majors, we get a roughly even number of Democrats and Republicans.
The assumption is that the remainder follow a roughly similar split - they're unlabeled, so assuming the same valid-fake distribution as the rest of the dataset is the best we can do.
Presumably. The proportions aren't listed, though, and they don't map cleanly to the other dataset.
That's not right. The 2016 election, in which graduates (docs excluded, since we're looking at bach degree stats, and they're negligible in number regardless) skewed more left-wing than usual, was still split 49-45, with 'some college' splitting 43-53 in the other direction.
The "fake and gay" degrees also happen to be fields that often don't need formal credentials to break into (looking at you, "business"). Nobody wants to drive over a bridge built by a self-taught civil engineer, but no one has any compunction about shopping at a business owned by a self-taught businessman.
Would you get your audited financial statements completed by a self-taught accountant? Business is broad. Outside of Accounting and Finance, the field is a joke. HR Managers are basically just the Goon Squad for Critical Race Theorists.
Business degrees generally encompass management and economics, and soforth, and, at their best, serve as effective sorting mechanisms for populating corporate America (though they are doubtlessly less useful today). They'd also be fairly right-leaning, if anything, for the purposes of this analysis. The fake/gay degrees I included were social science and psychology, which are objectively worthless majors unless you're one of a very small handful of competent psychology people (at that point, you'd major in neuroscience, though, and be counted with the med students).
Now that's some real math right here.
Well done Big Chungus.
In general all female education is a huge waste. A woman's primary usage of a degree is a status tool to meet higher tier men, who later ends up with the bill.
The Mrs. Degree was a pretty interesting thing. It's like a dowry, but paid to a third party instead.
Honestly, though, it'd be worth every penny if there were non-squishy Christian schools that could reliably pair off high-status men and women in a healthy way.