Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
It has some value because he set out on understand the difference between the two, but namely he wanted to try and understand conservatives, because he thought they were such weird people. He is a life long democrat voter, and has stated he doesn't think he could ever vote for a republican.
But since he doesn't agree 100% with the Far left, he's basically Alt Right Neo nazi I guess
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I don't need you to respect me, I respect me. I don't need you to love me, I love me. But I want you to know you could know me if you change your mind.
It isn't a mystery, conservative ideology in the US has fought tooth and nail since this nation's founding against democracy, education, and equal rights/protections for all people.
They spied for the Royal British Military, conscripted their indentured servants and slaves to fight against the US patriots, and mandated a senate and an electoral college via the threat of not ratifying the constitution.
They seceded from the union and sent hundreds of thousands of men to shallow graves, they instituted draconian segregationist and racist policies for a hundred yeats, some which are in spirit today in today's conservatism.
If education in other worldviews causes people to turn away from yours, you probably need to re-evaluate your positions.
I'm not saying indoctrination can't happen in college, but there's a reason people wanting to usually target kids under the age of 18 instead, when they're more malleable/gullible.
I was told the same stuff every Sunday for 18 straight years, and it took under a year of hearing alternate explanations for me to realize that they had never actually given me a reason why I should believe anything I was told those 18 years except for threats of grievous, incorporeal bodily harm.
Why I bring this up is that if people are changing their mind in college, maybe you should turn around and look the other direction to see where the actual brainwashing was happening.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
Being in an environment where you:
- Are exposed to other cultures and must think of how to get along with them
- Must think critically and in new ways
- Share thoughts and ideas with others as well as question your own
- Must get along with people and not be a giant troll or shit bag
Can often lead to having a heavy liberal bias, and will often obliterate conservative modes of thinking.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
This sentence doesn't make sense grammatically. Are you trying to say that college graduates are preferable job applicants to conservatives (as if those two groups are mutually exclusive)? Most conservatives who are skeptical of the state of higher education are ones who went there and had to sit through it so that criticism isn't really valid.