Asking USC Students About Their Experiences With Social Justice in the Classroom | Reverse Q&A Tour
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- In this video, I ask students at USC about their experiences with Social Justice in the classroom. Do they feel they can voice their opinions freely in class? Are there stances that are deemed unacceptable to voice? Students answer these questions and more.
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0:00 I am nervous about the professor’s view of me
0:48 You can’t stand for certain things in the classroom
1:23 I like to keep my opinions to myself. Better to not risk backlash coming out.
2:06 You adapt.
2:24 I lost friends for not advocating against police brutality
4:09 LGBTQ+ curiosity. Yet some questions are met with defensive anger.
5:06 ITS SAD 😞
5:25 ECHO CHAMBER
5:45 If I am not black, how can I speak on it? It’s not my place. 6:47 I don’t have access to the Legacy
7:36 Donald Trump shook the world 🌎
8:07 People want to hear what they believe, respect and love and (unquestioned personal truth)
9:35 Minority Discomfort
10:16 Cal Berkeley
10:53 Censored College Campuses
11:22 Male School Teacher agrees it’s sad 😞
Thank you!
We are 10 years away from Maoist death squads in this country.
In 10 years the 8 and 9 year-olds that are being raised on this ideology from kindergarten and on will be 18 and 19 years old. And when they are they will have a revolutionary guard in this country.
I foresee a mob of teenagers screaming at the top of their lungs at a 8 year old girl for something trivial, like wearing an American flag hair pin...
And the encounter will result in the crowd screaming and crying performatively as they beat the little girl to death in broad daylight. And when they do, people will turn their heads down and slowly walk away because they will know that there is absolutely nothing that they can do. Sorry, But I think that is our future.
We are headed for an American Holodomor.
Sorry for the black pills, keep up the good work Peter.
But recently compass activism has been perceived as anti-Semitic. So now they are calling for more campus security and less dei curriculum@@drpeterboghossian
Sounds like they just want to fit in...😮
These poor kids seems terrified of speaking their mind. What a horrible environment to be educated in.
You get the education that it's not smart to talk about politics unless you talk about the politics the bullies are always talking about.
It’s been this way for decades and now they’re turning our country communism
You mean indoctrinated in?
You mean Indoctrinated in... they’re insane.
you misspelled indoctrinated
Imagine teaching facts without bias, respecting different opinions, and being allowed to rationalize and think for yourself. What a crazy concept
STOP TRAMATIZING ME DUDE
How are they still using the term liberal to describe themselves, they’re the definition of illiberal.
George Carlins "They want obedient workers"
You mean as it was prior to 2010? I know it sucks the younger gens will never know real freedom. Unless we get back our sanity.
Oh yeah. "I am not able to say the opposite view". Well, that is science and University debates - learning to discuss, find good arguments. Not silence other opinions. In another video, I heard "University should be a safe space." Meaning "here, I can finally find a space where people will not say things that I find difficult to listen to". No, University is not such space. It is a space to go deep, learn, without being afraid what you can find out.
"Sometimes asking questions aren't allowed."
Accurate.
“asking questions ISN’T allowed”, you mean. Asking is singular. Still, fair enough point.
I would say public education has slowly conditioned this mentality for many decades. Do not question us, obey, you will conform etc… that was my experience in public school and I am 50 years old.
8:00 LOL this guy is the most real of them all and he's got a Bathory shirt on. RESPECT
"you can't ask, you can't learn..." Astute observation, and horrifying.
And very sad.
No questions NPC, Big Brother knows all...for you.
Reminds me of the Four Boys in the Passover Haggadah. One is smart, one is evil, one is naive and one who doesn't know how to ask questions. In every depiction of the four I've seen, the last one is depicted as stupid.
So sad and scary. I was at university twenty years ago and it never would have occurred to me that sharing my opinions would affect my academic performance. Nobody should feel this way.
Yes. Some professors take it as a blow to their ego if they find out that they have a student who may potentially be smarter than they are.
Being highly educated is not necessarily synonymous to having a high intellect. As a matter of fact being educated and being intelligent are two completely different things. For instance there are many people who don't even have a high school diploma, but they had to quit school for their own reasons...reasons that are not necessarily a reflection of their capabilities. And yet some of these people are excellent thinkers, can think outside the box, are capable of utilizing rational cognition, and a litany of other attributes that are the hallmarks of an intelligent person. Some of the most intelligent people who ever lived did not even have a college education. Self-education is also another avenue and true intelligent people ackowledge the fact that we never stop growing intellectually and always strive to be a better version of themselves. These are people whose pursuits involved personal research and implementing analysis through independent thought, rather than following some perscribed curicculum slapped in front of them.
Unfortunately instead of encouraging students who possess the potential to being the future leaders, founders and inventors of tomorrow, being egocentric and solipsistic takes precendence these days over nurturing the youth into aspiring to be the creative thinkers and successful entrepreneurs, let alone the hardworking, contributing members of society of the future.
What ever happened to open and honest debate? This crap is beyond scary.
@@1mongorock it happens all the time. I didnt graduate from school that long ago and I guess it must depend on the classes you take or people you hang out with but at my university there was open discussion and nobody really cared too much about what side you were on
Really? How naive. I graduated from a left wing University in Canada in 1989 and I was 100% terrified of sharing my opinions even then. Things have gone batty today, but humans were still hugely biased back in the 80s and being honest with the wrong opinion was always going to cost you. That's life.
@@ScentsofStyle99 you were scared because you didn’t have any self respect. I never cowered from my opinions at university
I'm so glad I went to college more than 20 years ago. We had discourse, we debated, we LISTENED, even if we disagreed...What colleges have done to students is criminal.
Make NO MISTAKE, lady, you were subject to this, as was I.
You just weren’t aware of it or your opinions were somewhat in line with what was accepted.
I heard one of these students say, "Fifty years ago, you could speak your mind." I felt like saying, "Hell, 30 years ago, you could speak your mind." I did when I went to college in the late '80s and early '90s. I didn't feel pressure to censor myself. Though, I've since learned that the Ivy League had been changing over to this censorious environment since the 1970s. Listen to Dinesh D'Souza talk about it. He wrote a book on it in 1991, called "Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus." The stuff he talked about then sounds just like what's going on in universities everywhere now.
When I was in school, I even told some jokes to a friend that he thought were racist (I was learning about that). I wasn't sure if they were racist, but I knew they were offensive. I told them because he had told me a joke that I thought was sexist. So, I did what I did to kind of throw it back in his face. I didn't get hauled in to an interrogation or a disciplinary hearing because of it, and we remained friends.
Towards the end of my time there (probably 1993), a fellow student and I discussed some reaction to him laughing at a joke he overheard that he thought might be racist (wasn't sure). He was working in a dorm at the time, and an administrator asked him about it, and he was told basically, "Don't do it again." He was kind of mystified by that. He asked me, "Is there something going on here?..." I shrugged my shoulders. I had no idea if there was or not. I've thought back on that, because it was like an inflection point. He wasn't used to someone in a university setting telling him how he could or couldn't react to someone else's speech. It didn't feel right to him.
I've since learned what's happened to my alma mater, and I think if I were a student there now, and did the same thing I did before (told an offensive joke), I would suffer some kind of consequence. Like many other universities, it's changed, and not for the better.
that is how it is supposed to be!!!
@@michaelblake2280 - I agree.
Over the years, I've gotten feedback showing that a significant reason universities have gone down this road is partly because of legal requirements, and partly because it fattens their wallets. Affirmative action has had something to do with it, and so has the push to send everyone to college. Most of the students who fit into these categories can't handle college material. This is what's been observed by academics for decades, but if they talk about it, they risk their careers. So, they keep pretty quiet. Another part of the problem, so I've heard, is wealthy parents who give a lot of money to universities. They like the way things are going, because they've pushed it in that direction.
I've heard it said that what we've done with universities has had the effect of extending high school for another 4-5 years. By and large, students are not really getting a university education, and by and large, neither the parents nor the students care. They just want the degree at the end. They're just saddling themselves with a ton of debt. Many are getting degrees that aren't worth their paper, except if they want to get into politics (or bring politics into whatever venue they choose).
My guess is the way to bring it back to the way it should be, we have to start with universities going back to recognizing merit. If you want universities to be universities, they need to be populated with students who can handle the material, not just warm bodies who can pay the tuition, or have a student loan in hand. For that, I suspect the issue of financing the university system, and liability, is going to have to be taken off the table. The system needs to not be threatened by the prospect of losing money if they bring in fewer students paying tuition, or threatened with lawsuits or faculty resistance if fewer students of certain hues or ethnic backgrounds are admitted. Just let the standard be that students will be prepared for college material, and if they do that, the bills will get paid, and they won't be held liable.
The "rational adult majority" is silenced by the... "radical childish minority."
Time for us to STAND-UP!
and become the childish majority ... this is coming from a guy with a picture of Frankenstein as their thumbnail .
@@soulscanner66 this is exactly what the video is talking about, can you fight the person’s statement without offending them??
@@gersongmd2497 A guy with a Frankenstein picture is complaining about people not being mature, Glass houses.
@@soulscanner66 A person with a "G" is complaining about Frankenstein. You must be fun at at parties, but I'll guess you're never invited.
@@Warp10x I'm not the one accusing people of being immature. There's the party killer right there. The thing with hypocrisy is that it's going to cut you either way. I mean TH-cam is strictly for the entertainment value, not anything serious. That's pretty obvious form this video. If you want to learn stuff, read a book.
I feel really bad for the foreign student.
@DSUM yes. this is so sad.
@DSUM The American CAMPUS he thought he was coming to doesn't exist anymore. Not so in the public mainstream.
That kid needs to get away from all these leftards, not trying to seek their approval. Go out into the real world. He'll be better off for it.
me too. what an embarrassment to our country that he is greeted like this. he deserves a better experience.
Yeah. Welcome to our nightmare, buddy.
He should interview professors too. Everyone is muzzled by a few zealots who have taken positions of power within universities
well, the reason why those muppets are in power, is because most professors are on their "bandwagon"..... otherwise, this wouldn't be happening
@@itkojecockot no that’s not how it works. Administrators set the rules and you lose your job if you don’t comply. Everyone is terrified of losing their job or being assaulted by the angry mob like poor Boghossian.
They probably wouldn't talk to him. They are scared of loosing tenure... Uh, huh?
@@1969ES175 Tenure is the key and Admins can't run a school with no professors.Each University has beocome it's own Hitlerdom
I would say it's the idministrations of the school pushing the agenda
The friendship you most damage by holding back your thoughts is your friendship with yourself.
Your also losing a lot off potential friendships with people you agree with by pretending to agree with the majority. I get not wanting retaliation but that danger primarily only exists because of the perception that all of the students or at least the good ones are leftists.
Kudos to these students them seem like decent and thoughtful people.
I recieved a disciplinary action for class disruption by voicing my opinion in a private email to the instructor.... in an Argumentation and Debate course. I was a first time 56 year old student.
What happens in an art degree in America? 🙈
Oh my gosh.... because you clearly haven't gotten on board with the new groupthink rules. 🤦♀️ I'm so sad that that happened to you. The teacher and the rest of the students lost out on a chance to learn from you and your perspective.
@@ellentuthill1800 Thanks, truly Ellen. I was so excited to be there. I thought maybe my age would be an issue. It wasn't. It was my skin color and my ability to think for myself that caused the problems.
I was actually told by my PhD Sociology professor that my sources for my arguments weren't valid because some were white men who didn't want to lose their power.
I eventually just stopped. In one sense it broke my heart. In another, had I not gone through that I would be as clueless as most of my peers about where we find ourselves today.
Sounds about normal.
what opinion was it
Peter Boghossian is a 'frikin hero 💪
I went to college 22 years ago and it seems it was the right time. I could not imagine having to go through 4 years of college tiptoeing around ideas and people. This is insane.
"tiptoeing" is exactly what it is. It's walking on eggshells, too afraid to be honest and forthright.
I graduated from college 12 years ago and I was already walking on eggshells then.
This is the place where these talks should be happening. Great Job , Peter!
A personal story - About 20 years ago, I was in a creative writing class. At the time, I was the oldest person in the class by almost 20 years - including the instructor. I was also the only person in the class who could be described as right-of-center. I turned in an assigned essay; when I got it back, the instructor's note said that he disagreed with almost everything I said, but that it was well-written and to the point. He gave me an "A". At the time, that result surprised no one. I despair that that is no longer possible. Divergent opinions are no longer acceptable on campus. Anywhere, or in any way. It's just so sad.
Now you would probably get a C- at best and reported for a SJW thought crime.
My professor disagreed with everything I said in my essay but he gave me good marks too. I believe some of these professors are starving for actual discourse because most students just peddle what they believe back to them
If you cant judge or have an opinion because you didn't experience something personally, then virtually all of history is inaccessible to us.
Their position is so contradictory. Always ignoring our shared experiences of humanity.
@@y0bo3000 Well, in a way it is consistent: it is always and only about them.
American society is on a very scary path for not letting free speech be just basically what it is: free speech. It ain’t a terrorist group nor physical harm threats. It’s just talking.
I suppose that is the upside. Speech actually is more dangerous, that is why they want to control it. The upside being we are finally taking ideas seriously. The downside being that bad ideas are being pushed.
Umm got to be VERY CAREFUL.. they are "Letting Free Speech"..its wrong to say they are not... However they are acting it an extremely bad manner to those that use their free speech.... Which is deeply unethical.....
Most on the Moderate left just push through & ingnore them... the right needs. to learn to do that too
America has always been on that path. If cops dont like what you have to say they can easily frame you. Its nothing new.
@@HondoTrailsideThere’s a far stretch between free speech to become a good/bad idea. And there’s a huge gain in intellectual/critical thinking generated thru free speech. That is actually what is being stopped - the opportunity to construct our thought process to a higher level. History is filled with social issues that have a party constantly repress the free thinkers. Reminder: Rock’n’roll was long time evil’s music. 😎
I love how people like Peter and Joe Rogan are labeled bigots for having open and honest conversations with people.
Joe Rogan appears open minded, but he refuses to have Trump on the show because he said he doesn't want to provide an audience for him. That is pretty bigoted if you think about it, just not in the way we have been brainwashed to perceive what the word, bigot, means.
or you know having video footage of rogan calling black people nwords and other stuff
Dr. Boghossian's expression at 8:47 is priceless. I also think that it is a testament to his character that even after all he seen and been through, he still finds the depths of the rabbit hole shocking.
That guy with the black t-shirt, mustache doesn’t look like the average student there. Like he’s had a lot of experiences outside of academia. I liked him. 😂
“It’s becoming harder and harder to socialize, as people…more complicated.”
We have more communication “tools” than ever in the history of the world yet none of those tools have advanced communication. And we’re doubling down.
Echo chambers. Just look down any TH-cam comments. Just put down the device except for work.
Communication tools are useless without social skills.
My theory is that this has been going on for quite some time. The internet exposed new ideas to people that weren’t available to them before. People latch on to these ideas and make it their identity so when people argue they take it personally now. And since we are now in constant communication with each other not even face to face the conversations devolve into chaos a lot quicker and a lot easier. Online you don’t have to take as much responsibility for what you say than in person. A lot of stuff people say online they would never say in public. A lot of people are angry too because they feel they’ve been being lied to for years wondering why they were never exposed to these ideas before. For example I’m learning economics on my own and realized that in school when learning economics they never taught us Austrian economics. We only learned Keynesian. Stuff like that opens peoples eyes and gets them questioning lots of things. I do think that is an evolution.
@@weignerleigner3037 It's called the Austrian school, not Austrian economics. Austria never adopted it. Had you learned it in school instead of on TH-cam, you'd know that because you would have been corrected on it. Precise words are important, and a real education teachers you to be precise and accurate with your words. It's also not new. It's been around as long as Keynesian economics, was adopted and promoted by Milton Freedman of the Chicago School of economics at the University of Chicago in the 1940's and 50's, and adopted by Ronald Reagan, the Republican party, and a slew of neo-conservative politicians all over the world in the 1980's. This is a mainstream, right-wing ideology heavily promoted by powerful business interests which is why you hear about it so much in right-wing media.
@@soulscanner66 where in my statement did I say I learned it from youtube? Also your statement is like someone who corrects someone when they say the wrong “there”. Did your fart smell good when you wrote that gibberish?
We have rich country problems. Only in a country of plenty can you have the luxury of inventing social issues that don't exist.
Only in a country where we poop into chemically treated water can we complain about this.
That was worrying, heartbreaking and inspiring all in one. Some great voices there so please keep up the great work Peter. All the best from the UK.
Me too! 🇬🇧
I’m a nursing student in the uk. In my first year I asked a question that was deemed so offensive that several students walked out and reported me to the dean, a few months later i sent an email to a lecturer to ask for clarification of some points raised in a lecture and she reported me to fitness to practice, I had to go to several meetings before I was finally exonerated!! I’m 47, too old to not say what I think; they underestimated me and thought I would just roll over and accept it but they were wrong.
What did they deem offensive?
I got referred to the dean of disciplinary actions for asking my Anthropology teacher to leave her biases aside and objectively read what was in front of her.
She tried to tell me hormones do not affect behavior at all... Basically with gaslighting! The annoying thing is it was on an essay about 3rd genders and my final paragraph was just addressing an elephant in the room. I made it on the existence of 3rd gender roles and clearly talked about that for most of the essay.
I basically said hormones play a role, but that is not all since societies with binary genders still tend to have different gender roles. She reiterated the point of my final paragraph back to me, as if they were telling me something, signaling they didn't even read it! They just saw hormones affect behavior and tried to bs me... What's the point of hormone therapy again then? Showed me ANYONE can get a PhD in gender studies (their specialty).
First of all, what kind of weird subjects are you guys writing papers on. And yes, hormones most definitely affect behavior, everybody knows that.
I'm a bit confused here
Well @@captainobvious8037 this seems to be where the professor was wrong and tried to push their point of view on them.
P.S. great name.
@@matthewrose8002 Yeah i figured. I was just a bit baffled by the subjects matter.
More of this please.
Fleming Rose’s book, The ‘Tyranny of Silence’ is worth reading, case in point to these Students not speaking up. To hell with the reaction of the opposition, it’s far more important to express your thoughts. We ALL learn something about ourselves, and each other.
Terrific work PB 👊🏼
the opposite is conservatism, which is just as bad
@@AC-mp7cx No it's not, you never see conservatives trying to silence opinions, and certainly not with violence. That may have been true 60-70 years ago, but now it is the left that have become the party of hate and intolerance. Listen to what these kids are saying, show me a single example where something similar happens on the right? The left have become this rabid cult., they are now eating their own and starting to implode. It is just beginning, but wait and see.
Yes, the notion of "consequence" has become so rarefied that "mean tweets" gets equated with having firehoses and dogs set on you. Speak the heck up. Ooh my grade or my reputation or my Facebook page. These are not real consequences in the REAL world. They are consequences in a virtual and emotional world.
@@AC-mp7cx What a daft and uninformed thing to say.
@@AC-mp7cx 👈 illogical Karen 🥴
The “I’m not weird” lad really moved me. Being an overseas student and wanting to learn about the culture he is living and working in and being shut down and bullied for asking questions. It’s so ironic that he feels like that at an institution for EDUCATION
If our identity is based mainly on what we believe, then having our beliefs challenged becomes a life or death battle. I believe most young people today would grately benefit from spending time living together in groups with no access to mobilephones or internet for a period of time, preferably close to nature with lots of opportunities for problem solving and cooperation; to learn how to connect with each other, to learn how to trust, respect and love others despite having different opinions. Learn how looking people in their eyes when speaking and listening to them creates deep connections and learn how to differ between opinions , beliefs & ideas and our true identity. Modern technology will never truly benefit us if we lose our humanity.
the book " Lord Of The Flies " comes to mind 😬
Also the show The Wilds
Absolutely 1000%
If easy to call pepple names trumpy. Commie. Racist etc
If u have to look them jn the eyes and engage with them its a not harder. It humanizes the whole issue
Kids with their phones! Too easy to talk nonsense to a lil glass screen
I graduated college in 2015 and wow this is insanely different from my experience already. I already started to see the tide going that way but never thought I would see students being terrified to speak their mind like this.
I had an ultra liberal social studies teacher in HS, we called him Reggie, he was very opinionated and was not afraid to let people know, BUT he never held your opinions against you and advocated open discussion especially when you disagreed with his position, we were never afraid our grades would suffer because we disagreed with him politically. Unfortunately today these kids academic future is at risk if you dare to be conservative.
I feel like this at work.. the company I work for is so woke, they made us go through a sensitivity training that used language such as “micro aggressive white people” and reverse racism… I was so grossed out
name? I'll send them an angry email for you
Leave that fuckin place. You live in America and still have a choice.
It’s just racism. 😂 They are so dumb.
Having experienced social intimidation techniques like encirclement and “shout downs” on campus, I learned to keep my opinions to myself.
I experienced that at my church but I smiled and stood my ground. I was right and they were wrong.
Those are actually technically assault.
And then when people secretly start voting republican, these morons will never look at their own role in creating an environment where the D is the only one allowed.
@@NBportofino What church was that? Seems more like a cult
You have my sympathy. I cannot imagine what that must feel like in a college setting. Back in the day I would never have experienced anything remotely like that.
Dude in the grey polo is super smart and he has the coolest hair I've ever seen! This guy gives me hope for the future.
Forget college, study issues on your own , form your own opinions, save your money and get into the trades. The trade unions pay you while you learn on the job and in a few years when you become a journeyman you make big bucks. You ever hired an electrician or plumber lately? A plus there’s ALWAYS work and your not paying a student loan for years.
But now, Brandon will borrow Federal tax dollars to pay your student loan debt.
Thank you Ken. I start a new job on Monday. I’m aiming to be a fully qualified plumber :) fuck school, I can use the Internet intentionally (fuck the TH-cam algorithms) and learn what I want. And form my own opinions.
My very academic daughter left the state of California and rejected her admission to the UC system for the same reasons these young people are explaining.
If you're a student, it's your job and your duty to your peers to question everything! And always speak the truth. Don't ever cower to lies and falsehoods, be bold as a lion.
I agree, but that’s easy for us to say.
@@chadwells7562 It's also easy to do. But I understand that the younger generations have not been instilled with moral character because they were raised on social media, and far too many lacked a father in the home.
The kid actually said, “It’s not smart to talk about politics on campus with other students.”
Of course no important college officials are watching this video but there’s gotta be a prof or two who know this is happening. Unbelievable.
Again, he’s afraid to talk about politics on a college (university) campus. And I bet there are also students that would support this “ban.”
There are probably a good amount knowing this is happening but they are just like this student, they are more worried about their career or job then taking a moral stance. So this is how freedom is lost.
An immigrant trying to learn about how this craziness works gets treated like crud for asking a question because they don't have answers and asking them to back up the nonsense they spew is more them they can handle. Narcissism has spun out of control.
It's not narcissism, not in the typical sense anyway. It's Communism. These people have been taught that only they can be right as long as they follow the ideology, which lets them be terribly lazy and irresponsible, and prideful for now. That stuff is just to get them to be angry enough for the Revolution when the world doesn't respect their nature. After the Revolution, most of these idiots will be shot, imprisoned, or threatened into compliance, if history is any indication. After all, whoever takes over doesn't want a bunch of psychologically conditioned, self-centered, revolutionaries running around. They might start another revolution.
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I wouldn’t worry about this kid. He seems too smart to damage his future career on camera or in the classroom so carelessly and he just radiates confidence in the way he stands tall and speaks clearly
This is the second video I've seen by you, Peter. Thanks for being a voice for rational discourse. I'm now a subscriber.
"At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'" - Thomas Sowell
“Sometimes questions are unacceptable” sums it up really well.
They're even nervous to give a specific example.
It reminded me of reporters in Moscow trying to ask people about the Ukraine War. They look around nervously and say they don’t like talking in public.
I just checked Peter out on Wikipedia and I see there are some major things I would disagree with him on but I love the stuff he does. I would cherish the opportunity to sit in his classroom though I am, at 71, a bit older than most students.
Great to see some independently minded students. So sad that the actual classroom isn't a place for real learning.
I've never been afraid to say what's on my mind, stand up about something I believe in, stand up for someone... etc. my mom could tell you countless stories from when I was very young. like 3 or 4 yrs old.
discussions are vital. it's bs you can't have a healthy debate. expand on ideas. ugh! I wouldn't be silent but I also wouldn't be loud. if "the other side" can say their views then why can't others?
These students seem terrified of some people because they acknowledge there are different political views of things.
So sad to see this. I was in university 40 years ago and universities were the place to find different opinions, people from different backgrounds, discussing with each other. These students are at an age where they are supposed to be growing intellectually, sharpen their minds in debates with other students, get creative ideas in interaction with others, etc. So sorry that they are robbed of all this.
And unprecedented amounts of money. Crass, but still so large as to be part of the elephant in the room.
We’ve witnessed the downfall of liberal arts education models…
I graduated UT-Austin in 1986. I was able to work full time, carry 15 hours & pay my way through. And I challenged all my professors on a daily basis. It was FUN! We all enjoyed speaking our minds, engaging them & challenging ideologies in the safety of the university classroom.
How can one learn if they do not question? We must question ourselves, others and our teachers.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Teachers always held your own option against you. Just spit back there BS! Get an a.
College student here, and this is 100% true, and it will become even harder to share our minds each year as politics become more extreme and mainstreamed. Everyone wants to be an activist nowadays
There’s hope for these kids.
These videos are great. Really appreciate the glimpse into the campus environment.
I've really wondered how philosophy and logic could even be taught on a college campus now. One of my bachelor's degrees is in cognitive science, which includes quite a bit of study into logic, artificial intelligence, programming, finite and discrete math, ect., and in my philosophy classes we frequently discussed topics that were semi-taboo even for the time such as some of the most intelligent animals having similar cognitive abilities to low functioning toddlers or would sending condoms and sex education materials result in better long-term results than sending food to impoverished, starving, and overpopulated third world nations. The idea was to challenge our socially accepted ideas and practices that may need further contemplation and or thought of in unique ways and develop critical reasoning skills that could be applied to challenging situations. We would debate these topics in class and often be assigned to write a lengthy essay in support of the opposite view we actually had, directly challenging our own views and beliefs. Most of those topics would be unpalatable to people not accustomed to those types of topics or thought experiments. I had a perfect score on the analytical writing section of the GRE and have a Ph.D. in psychology now, so I can't help but think this aspect of my education was highly beneficial, perhaps the most important component of my undergraduate education along with training in research methods and statistics. And yet how would such topics even be discussed now in the current academic environment? I believe students are not only being politically indoctrinated but actually missing crucial components of academic training that may have even been previously taught in their fields but are viewed as "too offensive" or bigoted to discuss or cover now.
Exactly.
I wish they taught the value of paragraphs in your classes lol
@@nixonagnewreviews7206 Thanks for your valuable contribution to this conversation.
@@AKSBSU If you learn how to use paragraphs, then yes it will be valuable. To you AND to us having to read your comment. You're welcome!
@@nixonagnewreviews7206 Then don't read it if you can't maintain attention for more than a few seconds. And feel free to leave. No one is making you read anything.
If you watch the Portland confrontation video, the people who come down to complain to Peter say that college campus is a "safe space" while college campuses are supposed to be challenging spaces. What the students are saying here is exactly the same thing. Liberal scholars are turning colleges into safe spaces which is quite dangerous and unacceptable. This is very eye-opening and deserves more views.
These are some really smart kids. This gives me a bit of hope that they're able to articulate the problems we face so well. We may all just need to show a bit more courage the way that Peter has in order to give people the space to speak openly.
Young people need to speak thier mind, and not be intimidated by the mindless. Be Bold! We all know the saying, "Fight fire with fire". Well....Fight stupidity with truth! Speak it with boldness, and confidence.
I feel so sorry for these students, I remember having a stand up argument with one of my tutors over politics, they still gave me a 1st. That was in the 90s. We still speak and still argue politics.
Found your channel yesterday and can't stop.. this is important to keep doing to show the bizar world we live in
I constantly tell my grand daughters to always question and never just trust authority. Never let anyone tell you that you cannot question anything. Always use your brain and think.
8:21 - "it's becoming harder and harder to socialize". This is the root of increasing polarization in the world.
I remember being at uni in the 90s and we all knew that to get a good grade you basically just had to agree with the professor, BUT it wasn't really so strongly left/right ideology back then. But within our friendship groups we could still freely have opinions.
My italian (literature) professor in highschool taught me all about critical thinking as he would make us deeply analyze texts we of authors we had never talked about before. This because he didn't want us to write about an opinion some famous critic had already given, but to make us think and create our own opinion. He used to Say "there Is not such a thing as a wrong interpretation when your analyzing a text, just weak arguments supporting them". I can't thank him enough: i stopped repeating as a parrot opinions I had heard "somewhere" and started creating mine. He was my hero.
Change can only happen when people can agree to disagree and respect each other. No matter what their views are.
I graduated in 2007 from a community college in a mostly conservative town and even then I was afraid to voice my opinion on certain topics because of the power that some of the leftist professors had.
Thanks for doing this. Free speech IS freedom of thought! And what is college for, if not that?
Especially at the cost of college. Pay all that money to be told what you can and can't say, to hell with that!!!
“It’s becoming harder and harder to socialize, as people…more complicated.” Translation: It's easier than ever to socialize, just more DANGEROUS.
'Sometimes, questions are unacceptable'
Some people might be inclined to say that's exactly how those who live in an authoritarian society feel.
Full support Peter. Good work your doing.
I graduated in 2019 and the amount of social justice/lefty stuff I saw in my final 2-3 years was increasingly noticable. I took a few classes for fun outside of my major that involved History and German which meant that I went to 2 buildings that housed the black studies department as well as other humanities/languages. Here are a few things I saw:
- My "highest" or "most advanced" class was based off of "historicity" where, among other subjects, communism was seen in a positive light. That class had a good teacher in it too. Naturally, multiple people reported on the benifits of communist revolutions around the world. I found it funny that those same people would shift normal conversation to modern politics always warning the class of "right wing dog whistles today". I guess the silence that communism brought to millions of its victims in its genocidal rampage couldn't be heard over those pesky right wing dog whistles.
- My freshman year we were told to write about whatever topic interests you. I wrote about responsible gun ownership. I didn't half ass it or anything and I backed it up with statistics from the CDC and from John Lott about defensive gun uses per year and how these instances save lives. The paper got a D- and outside of a few minor grammatical mistakes (nothing deserving a very reduced grade) the only thing mentioned in red ink at the back of the paper was "I had an immature view on the dangers of guns in America". That's when I learned to write like a communist for better grades instead of what I actually think.
- We never learned from one source in German that wasn't a communist/socialist or had a positive opinion of America. I only found out their political backgrounds through research not presented in class; however, their class based critisisms were kind of a give away. At best we got sources that were neutral on the matter; however, these were a minority of sources presented. Typically the good German teachers had the neutral material.
- I took one of those core history class requirements on American History which included a little bit of pre-America history (1700s - 1850s I think). In that class, suprisingly, the teacher wasn't biased. The students on the other hand... There were multiple people in class who had to interject and remind everyone that it was white men who were doing everything evil. I could only imagine the brawl that would have errupted if I started to point out the evils commited by other cultures/races. To them, white men were the enemy and they would remind the class of it at least once every two weeks. One of them was a straight steryotype of a social justice warrior too: purple hair, piercings, slightly androgynous.
- The Sutherland Springs shooting happened in 2017. The following semester, I had a teacher who railed against gun owners and the gun lobby numerous times at the beginning of class. He had the now wide spread opinion that every time someone dies from a gun that the manufacturers should be imprisoned.
- I remember someone put a simple white sign between the buildings I walked between saying "It's okay to be white". From the time I walked past it to one class later when I walked by that same spot again, it was ripped down. The only thing left was a corner held by some tape.
- The freight elevator of the black studies/languages building had ANITFA/black power graffiti on the inside. I may or may not have written next to this graffiti "ANTIFA are the real terrorists" because it had a ANTIFA logo with something like "Trumpers are terrorists" below it. The next day that portion of the elevator was scratched over. Que the Starship Troopers "I'm doing my part!".
- I walked into a adjacent a classroom because I was early to my German final to do a little more last minute studying. I immediately noticed the boards where covered in ANTIFA talking points meaning that someone was teaching this stuff to a class.
- There wasn't a single semester (besides my first year) where at least one teacher didn't have multiple 10+ minute long rants about Trump that had nothing to do with the material.
- I saw >school sponsored< ANTIFA meetings (called "The UH alleycats" subtitle ANTIFA)
- We had a competition in one of our German classes. The best student at the end of the semester would get a small little prize. Everyone in the class knew who was going to win it from day one. We had all known eachother from subsequent German classes so we knew who was the best. Near the end of the semester a day after the winner was declared, THE MOST friendly and open teacher in the entire damn language department broke down crying in class. Apparently, she told us, that one of the girls from our class went to the head of languages and said that she didn't win this stupid little prize because of racism she experienced in the class room. That the languages department was over staffed and now her head was on the chopping block because of this vain student who was dogshit at German (after 2-3 classes of German with basically the same people, you learn who is good and who is horrid. If half of the students in class disappeared this particular student who cried racism still wouldn't have been close to the top of the class). The entire class turned on this student because it was so obviously bullshit.
The American left is dying 140 years of history usurped by a postmodern agenda that is deeply rooted in the neoliberal project. They as in AOC squad and the Obamas faction appropriated the sanders campaigned to push an agenda that will see the middle class in America completely forced in abject poverty.
@@avae5343 Yeah, I never joined a political group at college, nor openly spoke about my political beliefs in the class room. I could have only imagined the vitriol I would have experienced if I did. I'm no hard line right winger either, just a right leaning centrist.
I personally have no idea how to correct the course that public university is tredding. The enviornment doesn't foster said opinions as you would be hurting the reason you're there.
Thanks to all for talking. We need much more of this.
I love these kids, they give me hope for the future.
It’s a sad situation for them.
Peter, if you want to get some laughs you should visit my undergraduate alma mater, Vassar College.
Vassar was supposed to have Jeh Johnson speak at commencement this year. Vassar invited him, and he accepted, and they publicly announced this. A couple of weeks later he voluntarily withdrew his agreement because so many students began complaining that he was speaking. Even though Jay's father had been a Professor of Architecture at Vassar for decades, and Jeh grew up in Poughkeepsie, and that he is African American, and he worked for the first African American President in US history under a Democrat administration, the students objected for some odd reason that he had worked for the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. So the students effectively cancelled Jeh.
Jeh did an interview with the school paper after he had accepted the engagement, and it's clear that he had not planned on discussing anything political at all --- he was very sincere in his desire to share some of the career and life wisdom he had gained over several decades holding some important jobs.
The school's President routinely sends out emails to alums in which she takes public political stands on very polarized issues, implicitly assuming the entire body of alumni share her personal viewpoint.
I was involved in the Ohio alumni club planning committee, and I had wanted to hold a virtual event in which alums discussed whether it was appropriate for the school to do this --- to take political sides on polarizing issues. My desire to have an open discussion about this was viewed by the Alumni Association administrators not as an open dialogue about school policy, but, rather, as a criticism of the President. And they told me we weren't allowed to use an alumni event held under the rubric of the Alumni Assn. to criticize the President.
When I was a student there in the '80s, OF COURSE, we were told that Vassar was a magical place for intellectual exploration in-part because it welcomed a diversity of perspectives. Blah, blah, blah.
I've been in communication with some conservative students there who echo what the students at USC say --- they in no way are free to publicly share their views. I've shared this information with some of the alumni administrators. Initially I was told that this was wrong. These administrators clearly were in a fantasy bubble, divorced from the reality these students experience at the school.
Sad state, I remember back in college I just got out of my 3 years in the army and served some time in Honduras during the Contras and Sandinistas, my public speaking prof had a shirt that had "Reagan's Foreign Policy" and an apache helicopter on it shooting civilians. I asked him "Have you been to Central America?", of course he said no. Well I was and I can tell you we didn't shoot anyone, I can tell you stories of troops giving the local kids their MREs and not eating that day because we saw the conditions they lived in. He gave me nothing but silence because what could he say? I was respectful and he still gave me the grades I deserved. I always challenged back since I had a little more living than most students in the classroom. The point is I never felt like I couldn't push back in those days we had respectful debate and the profs recognized I did have more experience than the typical student there.
Times have changed. A whole generation has grown up listening to this social justice nonsense. So it is becoming increasingly difficult to counteract their agenda. They now have pretty much redefined words to suit their agenda. Most people cannot step out of their own bubbles to think what biases they may have. And most people just don't want to hear truth anymore. People now think that THEIR truth should be everyone's truth. Even 20 years ago, when I was in college, I could tell that most professors had a certain world view that was being promoted. But things were not as bad as they are now. Back in college, I took a Speech class. As my first speech, I gave my story of how I came to believe in Christ. Everyone in class applauded when I had finished the speech. Including the professor. You would never be able to do that today. Now you'd probably be kicked out of the class, and some students would file a complaint against you for making them upset, or for not being inclusive of other religions.
4.50 ,he was bang on, if you can't question you can't learn
Comparing the "echo chamber" to sniffing your own farts is pure gold 🤣🤣
not just sniffing ones own farts, but likening them and detesting the farts of the other side
Great stuff, digging into the nuances of the problem!
I graduated in 2016 and I felt these concerns too, but I couldn’t not be myself and speak my mind at least. I had the moral certainty that I was right to think for myself and ask honest questions and say what I thought was true. I was ready to run to the administration the moment I received an unfair grade and raise hell.
But surprisingly, I was always graded with complete fairness. Other students would be shocked I was so cavalier about expressing myself and sometimes openly wondered with me if I cared about my grades, and yet I had the ironic experience of even being thanked after class for having the courage to speak up against what I perceived as total racist nonsense coming from one of my radical leftwing professors by that very professor! He wasn’t just not upset like people feared, he was happy!
I know this won’t happen every time but I really think the bigger problem here is these kids need to have more courage. They’re silencing themselves and likely just as much to blame for bad ideas taking over in the absence of them voicing theirs as those expressing them. A letter grade can’t be a serious concern when civilization is on the line.
How can you think if you can't speak? How can you know if ideas are good or bad if you can't challenge or explore them? How can people collaborate if they are so terrified of each other? How can we ever hope to be united if we're so far apart? These young people are having all of their potential pulverized in pursuit of some utopia and it's heartbreaking.
The last guy almost made me cry. He has the look of "can it happen now while I'm in college?"
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This is terrifying. And, yes, this happens on other campuses. It's the worst on elite campuses.
That's probably why more people are going to Christian universities cuz they can actually think for themselves there.
The University of California just emailed us saying that the overruling of Roe V Wade is "antithetical to our mission and values."
I thought that I was paying money for a nonpartisan STEM education, not towards a Democrat university;. I guess that I'll be taking my 60k elsewhere if I pursue a master's.
The irony is these kids are PAYING TO indoctrinate themselves with propaganda to be braindead ideologic slaves of the very State class they think they are resisting.
Madness.
go to liberty university. they have a great stem program. hate abortion.
your patience is unbelievable, and your reach is unprecedented because of it. congratulations and keep it up. Thanks.
When I was a teenager and into my early twenties, I used to speak my mind and not give a second thought to others feelings. These days, I do take others feelings into account, and tend to self sensor. Honestly, I feel that people need to practice self discipline in relation to their emotions, because it’s not my responsibility that you can’t keep your shit together. Questions need to be asked, and answers need to be had, regardless of a person’s feelings.
I'm so glad I live in Australia where our biggest issue is water and food security and and a robust energy supply.
Is that Irony, or are you really that disconnected?
It's just not that big of an issue. We have more important things to worry about. When food goes up 400% and electricity goes up 200% who cares about pronouns?
I was given an F on a project that was supposed to be graded based on completion because I got into an argument with my professor trying to explain that our government isn’t a democracy, that it’s a constitutional republic, in an American government class, and she disagreed with me and didn’t understand the concept.
I think that was a well deserved F. These things aren't mutually exclusive, as far as I know.
@@VestinVestin who said they were? The project wasn’t about that. The argument we had in class had nothing to do with my project 😂 our argument stemmed from her getting upset that Hillary won the popular vote in 2016 and, through democracy, she should be president. I just told her that’s not how it works because we’re not a democracy and never have been. We, the people, do not vote in our presidents and never have. We vote for someone, who then votes for someone, who then votes for president. She disagreed with me and gave me an F on our next project that was graded based on completion, not content, accuracy, or length, etc.
@@jazzyjay4595 not sure what is hard to understand
@@HorizonMediaGaming me either
the left agrees that the government isn't a democracy, so your teacher was not on the left. That is their belief.
7:28 This guy has a very sharp, clear and open mind. Awesome!
this is 100% true. i graduated university 2 years ago, and i definitely couldnt disagree with professors for fear of getting bad grades or getting harassed by peers. one time i went to a professors office hours for extra credit (it was a social justice class), she made a comment about how minority groups do worse in school, i agreed that it was a sad truth and that maybe it had to do with less education in the home, for example, less reading in the home. she immediately told me i was wrong and that it was because of how society and the school system treated them. her tone and shutting me down for what i thought was a potential contributing factor made me afraid to share ideas ever again in that class, i ended up just regurgitating what she said.
When you have to be afraid to ask a question or give your opinion in a place where one is meant to learn, that means that the environment is unfit for education.
When I was young I hated politics, because I primarily only saw local politics and the occasional election season which all seemed dirty, but then I read the Dune series and I grew a fascination with geo-politics, the macro strategic and tactical world of making deals and the realities of power... and I have to say, the SJW crowd is obsessed with power, while completely misunderstanding it, the way a feminist thinks they are "strong" for overcoming some emotional weakness
Government and politics SHOULD be an important and fascinating area of study. It is the practical application of philosophy. It is the one chance that society has for creating a better city, a better State, nation, etc. Yet we have been trained to feel ashamed about talking about politics with others. I'm starting to think that this is the plan of the elites. To keep the populace uninterested in politics so that the common man doesn't get involved with how countries are run.
I believe what you are doing is extremely helpful. You give structure and guidance that enables people to examine their views and adjust their positions based on rational arguments. This exposure to the true Socratic method is both enlightening and refreshing. I believe this is particularly valuable to help students understand how they develop opinions in a heavily biased milieu, such as a college campus. Academia seems to be reinforcing censorship, cancellation and the policing of thought.
The students are far too clever and worldly aware for the old guy ! Well done young team 👏
Thank goodness these type of independent thinking kids are still around. We still have hopes.
My student attends USC, there are many students that still think critically. They do need to mitigate their opinions with peers and professors unless they are prepared for backlash. It’s crazy.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a flash protest mob.
Yes, we need new universities (highschools and grade schools too) that go back to old school ideas that college was a time to explore and discuss ideas.
Thank you so much for holding these discussions, it's a start to a solution for this massive issue.
The kind of excuse I'm hearing here is the same kind of excuse that states that you shouldn't talk about the differences between men and women unless you're a biologist.
Especially if you are a biologist.
The guy that said he lost friends because he didn't put a black square on his socials. I feel for him. I literally had a old friend tell me I'm part of the problem. I've never done or said racist shit in my life.
Sounds like they weren't friends.
Since you have allowed your enemies to define the term "racist," I can tell you for a fact that you have, indeed, done racist shit every day of your life. You are most likely doing racist shit right now.
@@bc2578 what you on?
@@JP-qn4uo "what i on?" Is this an attempt at human communication? If you want to try again, we are all here for you.
@@bc2578 you're here for your agenda.
It’s amazing to see the diversity of intellect on the campus. Wow.
Peter's comment at the end about starting a new competitive university option sounds great. The biggest hurdle will be convincing prospective students and employers that the signal value of the degree from his new university will be as strong or stronger than the existing schools. Although legacy institutions are clearly doing a disservice to students and are the cause of much of society's current toxic division, people will stick with them as long as they perceive the degrees from those intellectually decaying institutions have signal value in employment that outweighs their cost.