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

[Upper Canada Tory]

'Hated' is a strong word.

I'm a conservative who graduated from university relatively recently. The subject I studied was in a STEM field, so politics was rarely ever brought up. However, when it was brought up, I'm not sure I would say hatred was ever explicitly expressed toward people with conservative views - it was more that it was assumed that everyone in the university setting had liberal or left-of-centre views, so expressing a different (aka right-of-centre) opinion was a bit of a gamble - you were never sure how you would be percieved or what other people's reactions would be. Professors would sometimes express their liberal views on something, and in rare cases try to 'bait' students into expressing opposing opinions, but that would never really work.

Sometimes, however, I would hear conservative views expressed in private conversations with students. So, I'm not sure there is an inherent hatred of conservative views on campuses, but just an effort to promote and push liberal or left-of-centre points of view as the norm, which can make it difficult to openly challenge those views.