The premise sounds a little heavy handed. Libs do that a lot, but the case can be more powerful if more subtle. A professor that actually did that would get publicity and his school would make him withdraw the requirement. There are lots of professors who teach with this kind of heavy handed indoctrination, but they don’t require oaths. They just use their power over grades to enforce their beliefs.
Most of these types of films can be on the cheesy or heavy handed side, but I try to support them anyway. This is a strongly growing segment of cinema that will steadily improve with increasing profits and attention.
I think you’re right to an extent, but I can no longer say something like this is unrealistic in light of the videos we saw last year alone. The creepy Obama pledges, the rants about racist Christians, etc.
Professors are emboldened in our culture to say and do what they like, whether its praising mass murderers like Joseph Stalin (and there is a video in which a professor tells his students that nobody died under the Soviet Union), or declaring God dead.
But you’re right it is often more subtle. Political correctness is of course the greatest tool. Current college reading and writing courses are now 90% focused on greivance industry authors like Richard Wright and Langston Hughes, both of whom were communists. There’s also the Feminazi and Gaystapo lobbies getting their sick literature into colleges.
Even down to the books on academic writing like ‘A Writer’s Reference - 7th Edition’ has in it the command never to use the word ‘mankind’ because it “excludes women”.