Students in an online course are NOT able to complain to other students in the same course about a professor’s indoctrination efforts. Their only contact with other students in the course is through the online monitored group conversations. A conservative student is going to be VERY reluctant to share his disagreements about the prof’s view if he thinks that it could affect his grade. Maybe your experience is different from mine, but that is the environment that I have seen in online courses.
I just finished an online JD. I am guessing that the political leanings of the faculty and students both broke near enough to 50/50. Former Dean was conservative. My admin law and ADR prof was a leftist. I first learned legal writing from one of Nader’s Raiders. The advanced writing guy was pretty much apolitical. It was wonderful! Diversity of thought like you’ll never see in so many schools.
I was referring to your reading and posting of comments on ratemyprofessor.com. True, not as good as being able to vent to the student next to you about some tyrannical leftist instructor. But at least when you’re sitting at home at your computer at an online course you can yell out insults at idiots like this and/or go to some site like that right away to vent your rage.
That’s meeting a primal need, as I think having to just sit there and take in in a live class is very unhealthy and a key component of the left being able to brainwash our youth, that gets removed from the online experience.
So sure, the online experience isn’t perfect either, but I have a lot more hope for young minds being able to resist the mind control efforts of these leftist propagandists if they don’t just have to sit there and repress there thoughts and emotions in class in order to fit in and succeed.