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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
It does seem higher education tends to produce people with more leftist leanings, but I wonder why that is? I’m in college right now and I’ve had to answer math questions based on things like the “wage gap”, and questions related to identity in English. Some of these concepts are framed as factual, despite being hotly contested in academia and the culture at large. 

To me, there’s a difference between “being educated” and being “intelligent” or able to think critically. Education level reflects your ability to regurgitate material and memorize correctly too often. 

In my opinion, the difference between a leftist with critical thinking skills and a leftist without critical thinking skills is this: one realizes that corporations and billionaires have vastly too much power and pull all the strings of our society and institutions, while the other thinks straight white men are the root of all societal problems, and that the latest Disney movie has a gay person in it is a great leftist victory.
gpt
Being “educated” is starting to become an oxymoron. Educated in what exactly? Indoctrination?

It used to be that if you were said to be educated (maybe 60-70 years ago) it was assumed that you had a solid foundation in post-secondary liberal arts, could read and write and think critically on all subjects. 

Now, being educated means that you paid an entrance fee to a largely corrupted university system to get a piece of paper. A university system corrupted by corporations. Universities and colleges are no longer run by white tower academics. That stopped being true in the 1960s.  They are now run by corporate types who treat the college as a business and the students are simply clients. Where the university’s purpose is to extract money and wealth from them.

Most colleges and universities are just hedge funds with a school glommed onto the side. Exact same thing happened to hospitals.