When I talk about how extreme political correctness is on many college campuses today. A lot of MAL users for some reason doubt it. Although it is highly documented that universities now have become centers of extreme left-wing ideology, people will always try to say that its not as bad as its made out to be.
Well, I'm in my senior year of college now, I'm about three weeks in, and I decided why not give every example of what has happened just over the past three weeks so that the message will finally sink in with some people? So, let's talk about the first week. Right off the bat, I can tell that all my history classes are full of SJWs.
One of my classes, the main theme is colonialism. Now first I should point out, the history department at my school seems absolutely obsessed with colonialism, particularly with the Sepoy Mutiny. The Sepoy Mutiny seems to come up in every class I take. There's a huge swath of historical topics we could be focusing on yet 50% of the history classes here feature colonialism as a major theme if not the central theme of the class.
In my colonialism class, right off the bat we're talking about "the violence of colonialism." About the British blowing people from cannons and executing Sepoy rebels. Now, its not that the information isn't true. It did happen, but the way information gets presented is important. When I was a freshman, I took the only class at my college I've been in that was ever taught by a centrist/centre-right professor. One of the things she mentioned to us was that "in college, you're going to get a lot of professors that want to push a certain political narrative onto you. And if there's anything you get out of my class, its that I want to give you the tools to question that narrative."
So we talked about the Sepoy Mutiny, and one of the things she taught us was how cruel a lot of the rebels really were. Their reason for rebelling in the first place was on an irrational rumor that the British had soaked the bullet cartridges in pig fat to forcibly convert them to Christianity. This rumor wasn't true, but it didn't stop the violent uprising from taking place. In this uprising, the rebels tortured, and mutilated British women and children who were not at all involved in the incident and killed lots of other Indians as well.
Outside of this one class I took, however, this is never mentioned. Of course though, every class makes sure to go into detail about how the British blew the rebels from cannons. All the information is presented in a way to make the British look like evil, arrogant racists who oppressed the Indians. British documents on the savagery of the Sepoy rebels is not taken as evidence of their atrocities but rather as another example of British racism.
So of course, my colonialism class in the past three weeks has all been students presenting all the ways in which the British were just awful, awful people to everyone they colonized. A few things stood out to me though. In one kid's presentation, he mentioned how the British developed the infrastructure of many African countries they colonized, built schools, improved sanitation, improved the housing conditions.
Sounds like a pretty good thing right? You haven't gone to college then.
He then went on to frame this as "the British did this to consolidate their power over the natives and show their technological superiority in order to continue justifying colonial rule."
Yes, god forbid the British try to improve the quality of life in the places they colonized.
Another thing that stood out to me was one kid and the professor criticizing the British for trying to do something about the horrendous treatment of women in various colonized countries. Once again, the British are presented as racist people who just didn't understand the cultures they oppressed and how dare they think badly of those cultures? In Middle Eastern countries and in India, the British were shocked by the level of domestic violence going on in households, they were disturbed by the tradition of polygamy, but they were especially disturbed by the tradition of widow burning in India. In India during the 18th and 19th centuries. When a woman's husband died, she was expected, out of honor, to throw herself onto the fire as her husband's body burned. Now this wasn't just a "suggestion." More like, if the wife refused, the husband's family would forcibly throw her into the fire.
The British considered this barbaric and outlawed it. Now I want to ask you. If you lived in Britain, and you had never been introduced to the concept of widow burnings and you lived where women, did not have equal rights necessarily, but men still felt that they should be treated well. Now, you've gone to this strange land where husbands are legally allowed to beat their wives, where rich men have large harems that are socially sanctioned, and apparently the women are forced to burn themselves to death if their husband died. Would you not think that culture was pretty fucking barbaric and that maybe, just maybe, a culture that generally thinks women should be treated well might be a better culture than one that forces women to burn themselves?
The brainwashing goes so deep that another student I talked to outside of this class, when I complained about too many history classes focusing on colonialism, said "and they never talk about how we killed like, millions of people."
How do people even come up with this? Colonial atrocities are literally all we talk about. Colonialists and how horrible they were is a major subject of like 50% of the history department's classes. I mean, its incredible that so many people actually think that ultra liberal universities somehow have a bias towards not talking about whatever bad things white people did. The bias is on clear display every day going the other way.
I can't even go into all the different ways people have just blatantly presented the British as running some kind of evil empire during the 19th and 20th centuries. We'd be here forever and this blogpost is long enough as it is. Now let's go to the most SJW class at my university. My professor is openly liberal, claims that the Democratic party actually has "conservatives" in it. He has also made several claims that are just blatantly false. He claimed that the national debt has gone up the most under Republican presidents. Not true, George Bush only increased the debt by 4 trillion whereas Obama increased it by 10 trillion. Bill Clinton, George H, W, Bush, and Ronald Reagan increased the debt about equally. Upon talking about Ocasio Cortez's "Green New Deal," he presented it to the class as "now how exactly is it an extreme position to want to do something about climate change?"
That's when I brought up that the Green New Deal is not extreme for doing something about climate change, its considered extreme because it will cost 96 trillion dollars. Upon which he just said "should we be worried about the cost right now?" And further claimed the government never pays its debts so why worry about taking on further debt? In the class, any Republican criticism of certain politicians is brought back to the idea that they are "women of color" despite the fact that plenty of Republicans strongly dislike Hillary and Elizabeth Warren despite being them pasty white. Republican criticisms of anyone is always dismissed as simply the Conservatives being racist or sexist.
Before one class begun, a classmate of mine claimed his hometown was "full of racists." Why? Because apparently some guy told him the civil war was not really about slavery.
Disagreeing on the causes of the civil war... Is not racist. Its a historical debate. If I disagreed that the Revolutionary War was fought over taxes, that's not racist, that's disagreeing on the causes of the Revolutionary War. There's nothing about that statement which suggests "the biological inferiority of certain races." It is simply a historical debate.
Another thing came up over "judges who are of color" (btw, I will just say, calling blacks and latinos "people of color" is really fucking stupid. Who would've guessed that it was the SJWs who would bring back the term "colored people.") and my professor thought he was making a huge point about how awful and racist our country is by saying we've had 3 judges who are non-white.
What he failed to mentioned was that we've only had 18 judges at all in the past 50 years. Judges serve for life so we don't cycle through judges very fast. At this current moment, 2 out of 9 judges are non-white, which corresponds to a percentage of about 22.5%. That's barely any lower than the percentage of non-whites in the country in general.
That didn't stop this one dumbass in my class though from saying, and I directly quote "oh my god, we live in such a terrible place."
We're not done.
I'm also in another class talking about Latin America. In this class, a movie showing Mexicans in 1911 as illiterate was called racist despite the fact that 85% of Mexicans, were in-fact, illiterate at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Having watched the movie, I didn't even get the impression they were trying to show this in a derogatory way, it was simply a fact of the time and place.
In yet another class, my professor constantly felt the need to emphasize that lots of men still don't take women seriously in the workforce, and that lots of men still won't hire women for certain positions based on them being women.
That professor is actually not too bad. But this general theme of "White men are privileged, oppressing the world, and holding everyone back" is just fucking constant at university. And believe it or not, I one time found a politics index online that said the school I go to leans right compared to the average college. Most colleges are even more liberal than mine is.
If you managed to get through this long ass blogpost, then I commend you. It is truly astonishingly long because that's how much stuff has really happened in three weeks. And I should probably mention that I've actually skipped like four classes since the semester began so there could've been more dumb shit that happened.
I've always been someone who truly tries to think about what's fair. And I think what a lot of these ultra-liberal universities are doing is not fair at all. To improperly demonize people as racist or sexist for their beliefs is not a small issue. To create class environments where only one ideology can be supported and where everybody is coming to the discussion from the same ideology is not a good thing. A reasonable debate or discussion simply cannot be had. If there are any conservatives, they are too scared to speak. In all these classes, I have felt afraid to speak up because the brainwashing is so intense that some professors will give you bad grades for disagreeing with or questioning what they say. Other students may shout you down and given all the crazy shit SJWs have done to people, I don't know if I want to push them.
Colleges have really fallen off the wagon. They've always been left wing but this has gotten ridiculous. Something needs to be done about this or we're going to be left with entire generations that can't think for themselves.
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