Vx: Frustrated by liberal universities, conservatives aim to defund and destroy

[JA]

I guess it never occurred to Republicans that perhaps the problem isn't that liberal arts departments in universities are almost universally left-of-center due to any form of indoctrination, but rather that intense academic study and research inclines these individuals towards a left-of-center worldview. For example, as a Sociology student, there's very little in the discipline that'd incline someone to adopt right-wing politics unless they're sociopaths. This isn't simply because our professors are left wing or the texts we read, but because we're exposed to so many injustices and how they're largely socially constructed (sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, xenophobia, white privilege, heteronormativity, etc). Thus, to be rightwing would be, essentially, to embrace those phobias and the unjust privileges associated with them.

But, considering Republicans are terrified of education because it's all "indoctrination," they'd never understand that. They'd rather place ignorant people in charge of education as if that'll somehow fix things.