I was in grad school in the ‘80s. Wouldn’t be able to do it in this brave new world:
I would be telling to many people to go **** themselves.
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I was in college in the early nineties; I was encouraged by the number of foreign students (primarily Indian and Arab) who didn’t mind telling a feminist professor that their cultures had survived thousands of years with traditional gender roles, and would continue to do so. The furious professor didn’t seem to comprehend that the students’ very presence in her classroom, in her country, were the writing on the wall that the post-Christian West was finished.
That probably depends on your field of study. The hard sciences still attract rational people who, for the most part, are sane thinkers. That's because people actually have to be intelligent to pursue higher study in hard sciences.