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This comment scares me in a way I can't really put my finger on.

Maybe it's the implicit assumption that oppression outweighs everything else – i.e someone who is black ipso facto lives a worse life than someone who is white, disregarding all other factors.

I feel like if a critical majority of people actually believed that all colleges were just "factories of oppression, sexual assault, and white supremacy", then we'd have some kind of civil war.



The other implication of this that never gets acknowledged: If modern US colleges are all these horrible things and widely known to be left leaning, then why are the students mostly all leftists? Isn't there something rotten in the institution if it aligns with you ideologically and yet is an engine of the oppression you rail against?




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