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First semester of grad school, on Sep 11 2002, our hyper-liberal prof decided to delay the day's lecture in favor of talking about the 9-11 attacks on the 1-year anniversary. Sixteen... SIXTEEN... consecutive students stood up and talked about what's wrong with America, and all the evils we have done to deserve it (including reaches like the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal... which was sabotage by an Indian employee). I sat there, gritting my teeth, and was just hoping to get on with the usual note-taking, but Number Seventeen just set me off. As the prof asked for any more comments, my hand slowly went up, and I halfway hoped that she wouldn't notice and we could move on. Sadly, she noticed, and called on me. I went one-by-one skewering all 17 classmates and destroying their Virtue Signaling victories, making 2 of them cry. (Sadly, the "all viewpoints are equally valid" girl was hot, and I blew my chances with her when I made her cry by reminding her that the viewpoint of those 19 who wanted to murder up to 75,000 was NOT equally valid to the viewpoint of those 3000 who went to work that day and just wanted to go home and play with the kids and kiss the spouse.)

For the last 2.5 years of grad school, I would get approached or congratulated on that speech at least 3-4 times per month, including by people who were not in that lecture hall.

I can only imagine how much worse campuses are today, and the challenges that face Conservative students... but there are benefits to intelligently standing up.

I finished getting my degree late in life. At 40, I had a bit of life experience. When the History teacher tried to tell the class that Nixon was responsible for getting us into the Vietnam War, I pointed out that he was elected in ‘68 and Americans were in Nam in early 60s, under Kennedy. The teacher quickly shrugged it off and moved on to other things, dragging the students’ minds away with a question on a different topic but, boom, there went my 4.0 average, my position on the Dean’s list, my use of the computer room and other advantages. Not a thing I could do about it, either. You can’t fight Socialism where it breeds. The best thing is to gas the whole nest...

‘”all viewpoints are equally valid” girl’

Yeah, I remember that nonsense from sociology classes (back then it was mostly restricted to the social sciences and hadn’t metastasized to so many other disciplines yet).

All you need to do to invalidate it is say “I hold the viewpoint that my viewpoint is more valid than any other”. They can’t say that you’re wrong, or they would have to admit their “all viewpoints are equal” proposition is incorrect. If they say you are right, then their proposition is also incorrect.