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Smart? 9 in 10 Students Say They Lie About Their Views to Fit in During College
Hotair.com ^ | 8-14-25 | David Strom

Posted on 08/14/2025 8:12:52 AM PDT by DeweyCA

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Another study showing the self-censorship that takes place amongst conservatives in our society, and it extends far beyond college. The leftists have successfully intimidated people (The Silent Majority) into not criticizing the Left's stupid ideas. Solzhenitsyn said that we should "live not by lies," but we do in order to avoid being ostracized by our peers. That's sad and cowardly.
1 posted on 08/14/2025 8:12:52 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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It would have been interesting to see how many Freshmen lie versus how many Senior lie. Does the constant immersion in the sewer of college change ones’ beliefs? Does living the lie make you believe the lie after four years?


2 posted on 08/14/2025 8:16:54 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DeweyCA

I like what this indicates about their positions and how they vote. It’s OK to avoid arguing with leftist nutcases.


3 posted on 08/14/2025 8:17:07 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: DeweyCA

Conform or be cast out.


4 posted on 08/14/2025 8:17:16 AM PDT by RAT_Poison
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To: DeweyCA

The good professors are all STEM professors. I fondly remember mine.

Even in the early 70s, I don’t recall having one conservative humanities professor. Except for James Dickey, who was a professor on campus but I never was in one of his classes.


5 posted on 08/14/2025 8:17:17 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I would bet that on 80%+ of essay type assignments having a view counter to the proffessor you will fail or get a severely lower score.

it’s self preservation.


6 posted on 08/14/2025 8:20:32 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: DeweyCA

Sounds like islam ,LOL


7 posted on 08/14/2025 8:27:17 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Agreed. In the late 90’s and early 90’s exactly zero of my math and computer science instructors taught the leftist crap or even natural selection / anti-God stuff. I heard all of that in my liberal arts “core” courses.


8 posted on 08/14/2025 8:29:33 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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It sounds like, you have to be liberal, to survive in college. Or that you have to appear to be liberal.

It’s a sad commentary, but it appears this is how it is.


9 posted on 08/14/2025 8:29:42 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“It would have been interesting to see how many Freshmen lie versus how many Senior lie. Does the constant immersion in the sewer of college change ones’ beliefs? Does living the lie make you believe the lie after four years?”

My daughter went to college conservative and all the heavy-handed brainwashing made her more conservative. She found a small handful of like-minded individuals.

Mind you, she served in the IDF (and is back now) and all the anti-Jewish stuff in colleges and the media really pushed her FAR right.

But, yes, she knows to keep her head down and not express her opinions.


10 posted on 08/14/2025 8:30:27 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Good for your daughter and good for you for raising her right.


11 posted on 08/14/2025 8:33:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DeweyCA
Lots of young men are not going to college in order to pursue trades. A majority of college campuses have more women than men. Conservative colleges like Liberty University or Christendom College in Virginia, Hillsdale College in Michigan, and Grove City College in Pennsylvania tend to have equal ratios of men and women. The others, not so much. Also, small colleges are closing down. A declining birth rate, men avoiding college, and the fading away of Boomers lessen the impact of leftist dominance of the colleges.
12 posted on 08/14/2025 8:37:08 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: uranium penguin

I went through that issue in college many decades ago.

Ideological professors was one issue.

Another comical example was my professor who taught a course on the Supreme Court.

He had written a dozen books on the subject.

If you read all his books and memorized his analysis you would get an A in the course.

Easy peasy.


The students who attempted to debate the professor on almost any topic were doomed in the class.


13 posted on 08/14/2025 8:45:37 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: DeweyCA

I wrote a term paper in the late ‘70s at a college and leaned it towards abolishing the death penalty although I don’t believe that. My professor was a feminist. I got the A, and almost got laid.


14 posted on 08/14/2025 8:46:00 AM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Things have changed a little bit since the 1970s. STEM faculty are not the way you are remembering them.


15 posted on 08/14/2025 8:51:06 AM PDT by Languager
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To: DeweyCA
The problem with lies is that they weaken you. Bit by bit you trade some of your soul for acceptance, pets and praise.

And the only thing that is truly yours is your soul.

Up to you I suppose.

16 posted on 08/14/2025 8:51:48 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DeweyCA

BTTT


17 posted on 08/14/2025 8:52:57 AM PDT by nopardons
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Live Not By Lies

I had one English teacher who actually cared about teaching English, in college. All the rest outside my engineering curriculum were blatant propagandists for specific ideologies (the anthropology teacher was a Marxist, the history prof a socialist, the astronomy prof a raging atheist, another English teacher a post-modernist, etc.)

18 posted on 08/14/2025 9:00:21 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: DeweyCA

I put up Nixon’s The One stickers, so no...


19 posted on 08/14/2025 9:01:41 AM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Or that you have to appear to be liberal.”

If 90% of students lie about their views, that probably means that about 90% are secretly conservative. Would that mean that a mostly conservative student body presents themselves to the rest of as a group as liberal?


20 posted on 08/14/2025 9:03:04 AM PDT by cymbeline
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