I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college.
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@rasterweb That's what happened to me, too. I wasn't in an actual city of any size, but being exposed to different people and viewpoints changed my own.
@APBBlue @rasterweb Same here. I went from a small town to graduate school in Chicago. A diverse community and wonderful ethnic food made me into a proud bleeding heart socialist.
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@APBBlue @rasterweb Same here. I went from a small town to graduate school in Chicago. A diverse community and wonderful ethnic food made me into a proud bleeding heart socialist.
@Pepperbike @rasterweb I just turned into your average normie Democrat, but my mom thinks I'm a bleeding heart socialist (and probably wishes I hadn't gone to college.)
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
@rasterweb Only favoriting this because I’m happy for them to realize there is much more to this world than what you’re told 🩷
Otherwise, it’s not a good thing when you have a group of people trying to stop others from learning, no matter what their excuse is
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
This is much less an environment result and much more a personality result. Openness vs. not.
One sees these personality traits play out in travel-- those who possess openness eschew scripted group travel options, opting for immersion/freedom to explore instead. Those without that characteristic do the exact opposite.
The former group finds travel expansive- intellectually, emotionally, and politically. The latter? They are simply visiting a theme park.
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He also told me he still reads Fox News, but with a critical eye, and so he can easily counter things his conservative friends (and family) tell him.
I remember him telling me that, and occasionally look at Fox News to see how they see things.
Here's an interesting one full of scary buzzwords like "Socialism" and "Communists".
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-network-helped-put-alex-pretti-harms-way-made-him-martyr
@rasterweb I think I’m dumber after reading this
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
@rasterweb Raised in Manhattan, NYC, then read stuff, went to Howard Zinn’s lectures in uni. Keeping left.
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
@rasterweb college and city living didn't dissuade me of my conservatism; Trump and all of his followers did.
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We also learn that an Airtable spreadsheet is "a sophisticated tracking database" used by "far left agitators"...
@rasterweb "putting in harm's way" really reads like that thing little kids do when they are play fighting, they use the other kid's fist to hit them instead of their own and say "why are you hitting yourself?"
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
Graduates from those subpar segregationist "Christian" academies will only meet diversity in public schools & college.
Isolation & information silos -- the censorship of knowledge necessary for MAGA to thrive, like cancer.
The cognitive dissonance sets in the minute these people meet immigrants, POC, women, and LGBTQ.
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
@rasterweb its standard abusive isolation. The more connections and information you have outside of the abuser, the less control they have over you
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
@rasterweb @amsomniac it's also the reason they want to shut down, well, actual cities
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@rasterweb @amsomniac it's also the reason they want to shut down, well, actual cities
@aparrish a wild reversal of their position on shutting down cities in summer 2020
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
@rasterweb I've always cracked up (and also cried) at the idea that it's the professors who are turning students progressive.
Ummm, I've got a secret to tell you...it's the books and learning, people. Try it sometime.
(Of course, plenty of right wingers know that, but it's a lot easier to convince people that woke professors are bad than to convince people that ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY AND LEARNING is bad.)
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
@rasterweb
Let's apply the 4 pillars of cult control to MAGA in rural America
BEHAVIOR: Church & social circles dictate the norm. Non-conformity leads to social shunning.INFORMATION: A sealed bubble. Fox News & local radio filter reality; external facts are labeled as "lies."
THOUGHT: Dogma over logic. God, Country, and "Leader" merge. Doubt is framed as betrayal.
EMOTION: Fear of the "other" vs. the pride of the "moral elite."
Manipulation isn't about intelligence—it's about isolation. ◤
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This is much less an environment result and much more a personality result. Openness vs. not.
One sees these personality traits play out in travel-- those who possess openness eschew scripted group travel options, opting for immersion/freedom to explore instead. Those without that characteristic do the exact opposite.
The former group finds travel expansive- intellectually, emotionally, and politically. The latter? They are simply visiting a theme park.
@kitkat_blue I think it's both. If you live in a small town that is pretty conservative, and filled with white people, you may not have much of a chance to meet different types of people.
I do agree with your thoughts on travel, and I love to travel outside the US and experience other places, people, and cultures.
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@rasterweb college and city living didn't dissuade me of my conservatism; Trump and all of his followers did.
@Mutedog It's totally possible to go to university and live in a city and not change your conservative views... it's not going to change everyone.
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@Mutedog It's totally possible to go to university and live in a city and not change your conservative views... it's not going to change everyone.
@rasterweb it probably helped that my conservative views were more libertarian based than racism based
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He also told me he still reads Fox News, but with a critical eye, and so he can easily counter things his conservative friends (and family) tell him.
I remember him telling me that, and occasionally look at Fox News to see how they see things.
Here's an interesting one full of scary buzzwords like "Socialism" and "Communists".
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-network-helped-put-alex-pretti-harms-way-made-him-martyr
@rasterweb I met people in New Hampshire, 40 minutes away from Boston, proud of the fact that they had never entered the city.
Go figure.
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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
The more I travel the more I like people, especially those different than me.
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He also told me he still reads Fox News, but with a critical eye, and so he can easily counter things his conservative friends (and family) tell him.
I remember him telling me that, and occasionally look at Fox News to see how they see things.
Here's an interesting one full of scary buzzwords like "Socialism" and "Communists".
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-network-helped-put-alex-pretti-harms-way-made-him-martyr
@rasterweb I feel like an extreme outlier on mastodon. grew up in a suburban religious household and went to college at big state school. My roommates told me I wasn't conservative. My Dad in his final years liked Trump, and was a bit of an us vs them, good vs bad person.
I don't think my views have changed much. Liberals don't know what conservatives hear and vs versa. I tried listening to conservative media, but they are so low brow, wow the amount of divisiveness! I had to move to podcasts.
