You just have to call them out on their own hypocritical views. When having to deal with people who hate Thanksgiving or Columbus because of the treatment of the Indians, taking their land and violating treaties, I always point out that they're the biggest supporters of socialism, and therefore have no problem with taking the property of one and giving it to the other, and think the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be reinterpreted from time to time.
Lenin was wrong. We don’t sell them the rope. We give it to them in the form of taxpayer subsidies of so-called “higher education.”
Yes, it's just that simple, especially when there is a power imbalance and the faculty can put you out of the program when you are two credits from graduating. Just talk to them; they'll recognize your superior intellect and give in!