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What that Brown LBGTQ+ poll really says about academia today
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jul 31, 2023, 6:15:15 PM7/31/23
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No one at all familiar with campus trends could be shocked by the student
poll showing that 38% of Brown students identify as LBGTQ+, twice the
level of a decade ago and five times the national rate.
The findings are plainly in the ballpark, and not just for Brown.
Nearly all US colleges are seeing the same trend, along with their general
turn left.
Some suggest this is just “true” identities coming out of the closet as
social stigma vanishes.
We doubt that’s the only reason: The Ivies, at least, have been plenty
gay-friendly for decades.
(“Lesbian in college” was long an observation that gays and straights made
with some wryness.)
No: It’s pretty obvious one contributor is the fact that identifying as
something other than a standard heterosexual is trendy now.
It doesn’t even have to mean much: Adopting a label needn’t require doing
anything.
Indeed, a “bisexual” identity (an alternative that’s risen conspicuously:
up 232% in the Brown poll, vs. just a 26% rise for gay) points more to a
confusion or curiosity than to a certainty.
But any new label can make your life easier with administrators, faculty
and fellow students. It could help lily-white rich kids escape the worst
“privileged” category, for starters.
Heck, for Asian-American teens applying to one of these schools, it might
end-run the racist schemes that have kept so many out.
(Harvard wouldn’t dare rate a nonbinary Asian kid as “lacking
personality”!)
Set aside how some kids may be doing themselves mental harm here, and this
is mainly just another sign that most of academia has fallen off the deep
end.
You can still get a fine education at many of these pricey schools, but
that’s no longer what they’re really about.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
about-academia-today/
No one at all familiar with campus trends could be shocked by the student
poll showing that 38% of Brown students identify as LBGTQ+, twice the
level of a decade ago and five times the national rate.
The findings are plainly in the ballpark, and not just for Brown.
Nearly all US colleges are seeing the same trend, along with their general
turn left.
Some suggest this is just “true” identities coming out of the closet as
social stigma vanishes.
We doubt that’s the only reason: The Ivies, at least, have been plenty
gay-friendly for decades.
(“Lesbian in college” was long an observation that gays and straights made
with some wryness.)
No: It’s pretty obvious one contributor is the fact that identifying as
something other than a standard heterosexual is trendy now.
It doesn’t even have to mean much: Adopting a label needn’t require doing
anything.
Indeed, a “bisexual” identity (an alternative that’s risen conspicuously:
up 232% in the Brown poll, vs. just a 26% rise for gay) points more to a
confusion or curiosity than to a certainty.
But any new label can make your life easier with administrators, faculty
and fellow students. It could help lily-white rich kids escape the worst
“privileged” category, for starters.
Heck, for Asian-American teens applying to one of these schools, it might
end-run the racist schemes that have kept so many out.
(Harvard wouldn’t dare rate a nonbinary Asian kid as “lacking
personality”!)
Set aside how some kids may be doing themselves mental harm here, and this
is mainly just another sign that most of academia has fallen off the deep
end.
You can still get a fine education at many of these pricey schools, but
that’s no longer what they’re really about.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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