On college majors and voting preferences
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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.