That’s the problem with our colleges and universities these days. You are expected and, in some cases, required to think a certain way. That’s the way it is in most Communist countries. If you don’t go along with the agenda, you are an outcast. A freak. Someone who needs to be disposed of.
My husband studied 19th century Victorian British History at a large Midwestern university. Aside from his advisor and a couple other aging profs, it became clear early on that the place was rotten with commies, post-moderns, and intellectual bullies. Forgive us for being naive. But my husband was up to the job, and became temporarily famous for speaking his mind. His peers thought of him as a ‘crank’, not willing to get with the ‘program’.
When his advisor retired, his post was replaced with transnational gender studies.