Posted on 08/14/2019 4:48:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Being a white college graduate makes you much more likely to believe that President Trump is a racist, according to a Quinnipiac University survey released last month.
In fact, 46 percent of survey respondents who are white and have a college degree said they believe “the main motive behind President Trump’s immigration policies” is his "racist beliefs.” Meanwhile, only 31 percent of white people without a college degree found that Trump's immigration policies are mainly influenced by "racist beliefs."
Could it be that colleges are conditioning their students to hate Donald Trump?
In my opinion, it’s no coincidence.
Take a look at the speakers brought to campus, the coursework assigned in the classroom, the radical opinions professed by faculty, and the general code of conduct now widely accepted in academia. All these things, which make up the fabric of university life, create an echo-chamber ripe for misinformation and leftwing propaganda to be spread against the president.
Furthermore, students participating in a four-year, academic vacation -- also called the college or university system -- are often protected from the realities of immigration, especially in comparison to that of working-class individuals who are more likely to compete directly for jobs against illegal immigrants. Failing to understand the consequences of bad immigration policy would certainly make it more difficult to understand why Trump’s stance against illegal immigration is policy-driven and not personal.
The same survey found that 54 percent of white people with a college degree believe that Trump himself is racist, while 11 percent less of white respondents without a college degree believe Trump is racist.
Being sheltered from reality in these many ways explains the wide difference in perception. In fact, if students were presented with the facts they may have a different perspective altogether.
For starters, the unemployment rate among African Americans is at an all-time low. When Trump took office in January 2017, unemployment was 7.7 percent. More recent jobs reports peg it at 6 percent. One can also point to the Trump Administrations work for criminal justice reform and the creation of Opportunity Zones, which are meant to bolster investment in underserved or poorer cities
And in fact, statistics show that during President Trump’s time in office, sentiments of racism have decreased. A 2008-2018 Panel Survey, authored by UPenn political science professor Daniel J. Hopkins, tracked white Americans’ racial attitudes and found that racism in America has significantly decreased since President Donald Trump’s election in 2016.
Students are living in a four-year echo-chamber of false information dominated by the Democratic machine which results in a skewed understanding of the political landscape before us. One can only expect such shocking poll results.
Educated beyond their intelligence.
GIGO
Because they are not “college educated” they have been “leftist indoctrinated.”
Sadly, these days “college educated” often means college indoctrinated.
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, it’s not that college students are ignorant, it’s that they are taught so much that isn’t so.
As I stated moments ago in another thread:
Education. Pop culture. Media. Three vehicles that contribute to the dumbing down of America and the brainwashing of the impressionable “yoots.” Imagine if Trump said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country...” The snowflakes in the liberal press would castigate the statement to no end.
Because they have been programmed to say that by their America-hating, Marxist “professors”. They get “extra credit” for being a blithering idiot.
I’m college educated and white. I don’t think Trump is a racist. Granted, I graduated 20 years, but they’re not specifying proximity of graduation.
Because above all, a college education teaches you to be a conformist. College educated or not, the 24-hour a day gaslighting Coalition of the media is a powerful Force.
Not in my family. All college grads, all white and all conservative, except the 23 year old niece. (She is a vegetarian to save the planet, so who knows)
Let’s be careful who we lump into groups. College education didn’t always equate to Marxist indoctrination. I don’t have a beef with hard working Americans who pay their bills by working in the trades or elsewhere not requiring post-secondary education.
Exactly.
The first time I heard the leftist mantra “Black people cannot be racist”, I thought they were joking.
They were not. It is the Orwellian use of words to dominate and control.
No doubt. There are plenty exceptions to the rule.
Because the non-college whites didn’t have to sit in college classes where they were told they were nothing but shit. They probably didn’t have to sit in high school classes to that effect as much either, as they were spending their time trying to learn some useful skills.
The poll says 46 percent of educated whites do NOT think the President is fascist.
Well, I am college educated. I don’t think he is a racist. Did hey break it down by age?
In my education experience we looked at policies and their impacts. There was no judgement preached..until we left class. And we all thoughtCarter was an idiot.
46 percent of survey respondents who are white and have a college degree said they believe “the main motive behind President Trump’s immigration policies” is his "racist beliefs.”
Good reason to cut education spending, especially from the fed. Why fund domestic enemies?
“Educated beyond their intelligence.”
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Because as with milk and hamburger patties they have only a vague idea where money comes from.
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