#though it is certainly firmly well to the left of center at its higher echelons
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to be fair the further left one side goes the further right the other goes and vice-versa, the two phenomena don't have nothing to do with one another
#I'll give an example#I have taught both halves of an American History survey that splits at 1865#so half before half after#we talk about things like slavery westward expansion and immigration#as one does#it is not an exceptionally Woke School#though it is certainly firmly well to the left of center at its higher echelons#its student body is not#I know I have had conservative students and Trump students#now hear me out#if we are going to talk about something like eugenics or scientific racism#or regulation of immigration#all of the students invariably know the *kind* of answer they ought to have#and all of the students will know that if they deviate from the kind of answer they *should* have#the punishment will be swift and terrible#not necessarily from me#but they are well aware of the social consequences#now any good Leftist will hope that in a classroom they can draw out students' bigotry and biases and so on to rectify them#but if the student won't even admit to having them#because they know they cannot admit to having them#how could you--even if you want to correct it--even begin to draw it out?#so the students who are so inclined become adept at saying one thing while their hearts are far away#the practical effect of the intellectual domination of academic institutions by the left#is that right-wing people just become more entrenched in their own reality#a student who is skeptical of open borders will not say so in class#or only in the most glancing way#and if they are shamed#the shame will just impel them into greater rather than less radical beliefs#I am not sure what is the solution to this but I know it exists#and right wing people have a version of this too of course because it's human
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