Conservatives : Do you feel like your views are hated on in the college setting ?

[Ancestral Republican]

A few important things to note about this discussion:

1) "Conservatism" as it presently exists in the national discourse is increasingly toxic and unhinged. With MAGA, it's not just that their views are bad, they're incoherent. While I have Republican and libertarian friends, it's hard to imagine someone in my circle trying to argue that the 2020 election was stolen or that vaccines are bad - you're gonna get shut down pretty quickly if you have nothing to back up your statements. That said I've seen heated debate about stuff like charter schools so it's not like people are afraid of that.

2) College campuses are less reflective of the American political landscape these days due to many major universities becoming expensive academic tourism ventures for the children of wealthy foreign families - some kid from Guangdong whose father is a wealthy factory owner and CCP apparatus member is not going to give a rat's ass about gun control or gerrymandering or whatever. Even the American representation on college campuses seems increasingly, disproportionately from rich families.

There's been a push amongst far-right think tanks to demonize education. The Republican/Moms for Liberty dream is a nation of people who don't understand how a bill is passed or who is in charge of the groups that funded it. Don't go to college, become a mason tender instead - your back will be broken by 45 but at least you'll be voting for us your whole life. That's what the woke/DEI boogeyman is all about. Then when these people google something to try to learn about it, they'll be greeted with a PragerU video sponsored by Jiffy Lube about how public transportation was invented to take away their freedom.

All that to say, it's not a surprise you don't see conservatives on college campuses too much these days.