Over 80 percent of Students Expect Lower Grades If They Don’t Say They Hate Western Culture. By David Strom at Hot Air.
Academics don’t like Western Culture, and they aren’t afraid to shout that from the rooftops. They are very passionate in their hatred. They announce it every day in the classroom.
Students are genuinely scared to disagree because they are pretty sure the professor will punish them, which reduces the value of the $100,000/year in tuition and fees they pay for the privilege of being harangued.
“A new survey of nearly 2,200 students at five Chicago-area universities found 84% felt pressure to criticize Western civilization to succeed academically” …
“When students were asked whether challenging a professor’s negative view of Western culture could result in a lower grade, 83 percent agreed or strongly agreed.”
This is a new development:
As a former academic who both attended and taught at a very liberal college, I can tell you this is hardly normal compared to a few decades ago; university professors may have fought like cats and dogs over countless petty and not-so-petty things among themselves, but punishing students for thinking was something almost everybody agreed was a no-no….
It’s a whole different world. The institutions have been captured by the radical Left, which aims to use the positions of power (and the money) to destroy the West.
Ask Abdul El-Sayed’s sister, who is a University of Chicago professor, about that:
“At Socialism 2025, @UChicago professor Eman Abdelhadi called her employer “evil colonial landlord.” Use it. Organize it. Seize its structural leverage. We don’t have power… but I work at one of the biggest employers in Chicago… a place with thousands of people I could potentially organize… This is where I need to build power. She openly says it’s “brutal” organizing academics. But despite her disdain, Abdelhadi sees the university as a tactical weapon — to build a Palestine-aligned political base from within.”
Gee, I wonder why students there fear disagreeing with her. Her entire goal is to bring down the system that, in her eyes, makes you a privileged student.
Get on board or face the consequences. So the students, for the most part, do.