Great essay. My main experience with this bullshit happened when leftist nazis spent october 7 cheering on hamas on bluesky because zionism is a crime so big in their eyes that they justify mass murder and raping children
Love love love this piece. So glad I graduated 20 years ago. There was a leftward bias in a lot of spaces and classes but it didn’t rise to the level of getting people in trouble. I did have to write some things in such a way to please a professor, but I took it as a challenge to approach things from a viewpoint other than my own. That ability serves me quite well professionally.
Before I came to America, I used to imagine myself sitting under an oak tree on campus, debating John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism with friends—just passionate conversations, open minds, and big ideas. But the reality was very different from what I expected. I hope you did get to have that kind of experience 20 years ago. I’m really glad you enjoyed the article. Feel free to restack it and share it with your friends—my Substack is totally free.
"a time like this when I am required to pay and eat a cuisine that is American-oriented, I cannot help but feel like I am being forced to assimilate to the mainstream culture."
I know you're now embarrassed by it, but that nobody then read that and thought, "oh, what a spoilt brat! We can't publish this and pretend to be taken seriously", says a lot about the state of the Anglo university experience.
Great essay. My main experience with this bullshit happened when leftist nazis spent october 7 cheering on hamas on bluesky because zionism is a crime so big in their eyes that they justify mass murder and raping children
Thank you! You should check out the second part of my essay—part of it covers the period after October 7.
Love love love this piece. So glad I graduated 20 years ago. There was a leftward bias in a lot of spaces and classes but it didn’t rise to the level of getting people in trouble. I did have to write some things in such a way to please a professor, but I took it as a challenge to approach things from a viewpoint other than my own. That ability serves me quite well professionally.
Before I came to America, I used to imagine myself sitting under an oak tree on campus, debating John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism with friends—just passionate conversations, open minds, and big ideas. But the reality was very different from what I expected. I hope you did get to have that kind of experience 20 years ago. I’m really glad you enjoyed the article. Feel free to restack it and share it with your friends—my Substack is totally free.
I also feel looting and causing havoc defeated the purpose of protesting BLM…
"a time like this when I am required to pay and eat a cuisine that is American-oriented, I cannot help but feel like I am being forced to assimilate to the mainstream culture."
I know you're now embarrassed by it, but that nobody then read that and thought, "oh, what a spoilt brat! We can't publish this and pretend to be taken seriously", says a lot about the state of the Anglo university experience.