When right-wing people see the statistics that educated people are more likely to be left-wing, they apply the obvious incorrect logic that ‘education is indoctrinating our children’.
The simple fact of the matter is, that in high school, college, and university, I was exposed to people. I played sports with people from every culture, shared classrooms and completed group projects with them. I was taught by people with different cultural backgrounds and I can promise, not a single word of it had anything to do with politics.
Meanwhile, the uneducated are born in their small town, they go to work in their small town, they are surrounded by the same people they went to high school with (presumably from their own cultural background) and ultimately, they listen to mass-media telling them that X people are bad.
And if you explain this to them, they’ll still say that you’re brainwashed.
I grew up fairly socially isolated. I was always taught as a kid and younger teenager that people different from me are bad, that X type of people deserve bad things to happen to them, yada yada conservative bullshit.
Then I got older. It’s hard to see X type of people as the bad guy when they’re treating you with more kindness and less judgement than everyone you grew up around and when you realize that they may be different from you and want something different from life than you, but they still just want to survive the day and find happiness, just like you.
This study has presented new analysis of the causal effect of higher education on political values, finding that individuals become less authoritarian, less racially prejudiced and more economically right-wing due to achieving a degree.
Higher education seems to make people libertarian rather than left wing.
When right-wing people see the statistics that educated people are more likely to be left-wing, they apply the obvious incorrect logic that ‘education is indoctrinating our children’.
The simple fact of the matter is, that in high school, college, and university, I was exposed to people. I played sports with people from every culture, shared classrooms and completed group projects with them. I was taught by people with different cultural backgrounds and I can promise, not a single word of it had anything to do with politics.
Meanwhile, the uneducated are born in their small town, they go to work in their small town, they are surrounded by the same people they went to high school with (presumably from their own cultural background) and ultimately, they listen to mass-media telling them that X people are bad.
And if you explain this to them, they’ll still say that you’re brainwashed.
I grew up fairly socially isolated. I was always taught as a kid and younger teenager that people different from me are bad, that X type of people deserve bad things to happen to them, yada yada conservative bullshit.
Then I got older. It’s hard to see X type of people as the bad guy when they’re treating you with more kindness and less judgement than everyone you grew up around and when you realize that they may be different from you and want something different from life than you, but they still just want to survive the day and find happiness, just like you.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379422000312
Higher education seems to make people libertarian rather than left wing.
People who can’t engage with logical reasoning or evidence without resorting to intellectual cop-outs to defend their positions can’t be helped.