the reason they hold so tightly to this idea that elite universities are indoctrination factories for far-left ideology is because their own sons and daughters are now beyond their command and they cannot fathom any legitimate reason how their offspring could willfully reject their parents’ values - ThreadSky

eliasisquith.blog • 10 hours ago

the reason they hold so tightly to this idea that elite universities are indoctrination factories for far-left ideology is because their own sons and daughters are now beyond their command and they cannot fathom any legitimate reason how their offspring could willfully reject their parents’ values

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wilsonti7.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I'm almost certainly getting this wrong, and I can't find the actual text to cite, for which I apologize, but Rorty said something along the lines of the rubes indoctrinate their children with religion, and then those children come to universities, and we liberate them from custom and folk beliefs

charlesdeguava.bsky.social•9 hours ago

“Children are property” is a load bearing pole of modern conservatism

odeecs.bsky.social•9 hours ago

1000% accurate.

jaymarose.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Everything thats not a land owning white christian straight male is property.

mrtherapydog.bsky.social•8 hours ago

MAGA Christians don't hate lgbtq+ from other families as much as they hate the lgbtq+ in their own families. They know deep down no one "groomed" their child and it freaks them out because they know their MAGA Christian friends will treat them as poorly as they treat everyone else.

orthofirebrand.bsky.social•9 hours ago

the kids are "beyond their command" because the kids have the good sense to be absolutely HORRIFIED that their parents voted repeatedly for an absolutely despicable, dishonest and vile piece of shit. This has led to a massive stampede out of the churches too.

luciaromano.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Ohhh shit you’re so right

numbcat9.bsky.social•3 hours ago

They’ve been flogging this particular horse *at least* since their hero William F. Buckley wrote “God & Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ‘Academic Freedom’” in 1951.

suzannecloud.bsky.social•9 hours ago

A tale as old as time

odeecs.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I rejected my parents' paradigm and commands because I was able to determine for myself that my conservative parents were selfish assholes and that I wanted better for myself and my kids.

eliasisquith.blog•10 hours ago

in many ways this is a very familiar and rather simple story; it’s part of why the really radical ones like andreessen insist that young educated people today are a new iteration of the New Left of the late-60s. they even refer to these people, many of whom are in their 40s now, as “the kids”

joehaydu.bsky.social•10 hours ago

40ish kid of conservative educated parents checking in, this tracks. They know they taught me all the things they believe, so when I do things like refuse to let them deadname trans kids there’s cognitive dissonance since they can’t dismiss me as not knowing the “truth”. It has to be something else.

odeecs.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Saaaaame 🤜🤛

septimushodge.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Logic, critical thinking, scientific method = enemies of authoritarianism

jackfeerick.bsky.social•10 hours ago

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