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my parents just tried to tell me ill get more republican the longer im in college… yeah sure
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Anonymous 10w

a common misconception is that colleges make people liberal. what actually happens is people become more tolerant to ideas besides their own, and tolerance for anything or anybody that isn't white, cishetero, able bodied and christian is deemed liberal by the right wing

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Anonymous 10w

Yeah, they’re right. They just forgot about the liberal indoctrination.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

the other thing is there's a strong correlation between intelligence and progressive ideals. the more people learn the less they tend to be conservative. conservatism is typically anti-intellectual and anti-empirical

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