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Groupthink and its consequences in today’s academia
American Thinker ^ | 29 Apr, 2024 | Tyler Asbell

Posted on 04/29/2024 5:49:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As a student learning the complexities and intricacies the field of finance, you’d think we’d first learn the ideals of capitalism, free-market economies, and their inverse relationships to communism and its failures. At today’s public state colleges, this is not the case. Let me explain.

Entering my senior year this Fall I will be wrapping up my bachelor’s degree of science, with a concentration in Finance. I attend a state and federally-funded public university with an enrollment of over 30,000 students. Being an independent thinker has castrated my entire college experience; with the most severe damage coming in the past year or so. My experience as a business school student has repelled some of the indoctrination I would have received in other colleges such as the Arts or Humanities. However, my displeasure has reached a point in which I must convey what I am experiencing.

The curriculum our college students are being fed by ideologically and morally impaired group thinkers is detrimental to the future of capitalism across the country, in effect ruining the outlook for the national and global economy, health care systems, and societal norms. We are being taught to bend the knee to racist, race-based curriculums that empower everyone except those who lack melanin in their epidermis. Even in our business school, we are encouraged to write papers and essays arguing the advantages of programs like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as well as anti-American, pro-China initiatives like ESG and the importance of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). Similar to how the three-letter government agencies have created a cesspool of unconstitutional economic legislation, such as the SEC and FTC, these three-letter social programs are what the future of the American economy will embody. Our professors are almost entirely left-wing. The professors who attempt to indoctrinate me and my classmates...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: marxism

1 posted on 04/29/2024 5:49:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The marxism has really grown in universities since I was in school. Doing some college recruiting over my career, I have witnessed it first hand.


2 posted on 04/29/2024 5:49:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

There was a time when academicians were taught to avoid ‘groupthink’.

Now it’s a required course..............


3 posted on 04/29/2024 5:52:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Colliective drones v Individual thought


4 posted on 04/29/2024 5:53:30 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

There seems to be a correlation between people who think it’s their job to ‘change the world’ and those pushing group think.


5 posted on 04/29/2024 6:08:09 AM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: MtnClimber

The market is responding. Many companies and government agencies no longer require college degrees. Males are opting for trade schools. University enrollment is dropping. Academia as a brand has been severely damaged. Thousands of colleges are closing.


6 posted on 04/29/2024 6:56:42 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

My son was forced to regurgitate Marxist drivel in college... felt like his degree was largely a waste of money.


7 posted on 04/29/2024 7:18:07 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: MtnClimber

An editor should’ve gone over this before publication.


8 posted on 04/29/2024 11:21:07 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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