Conservative Students at Brown Fear Expressing Their Beliefs on Campus
“The poll’s sample size for the question about expressing political opinions was 1,364 students.”
Conservatives are a tiny minority at Brown. Doesn’t that make them a protected class, according to the left?
FOX News reports:
Most Brown University conservatives fear expressing beliefs on campus: school poll
According to a poll conducted by Brown University’s student newspaper, only a tiny percentage of students on campus identify as conservatives, and most of those conservatives do not feel comfortable expressing their opinions in public.
The poll, conducted by the Brown Daily Herald, found that only 0.8% of students on the approximately 11,000-student campus identify as “very conservative.” Only 5.3% identify as “somewhat conservative.” While moderates make up 13.3% of the student population, students who identified as “somewhat liberal or progressive” totaled 41.1% of the student population. More than 36% described themselves as “very liberal or progressive.”
The poll’s sample size for the question about political ideology was 1,369 students.
Conductors of the poll also asked students how comfortable they were expressing their political beliefs.
Nearly 72% of “very or somewhat conservative” students are afraid to share their opinions in social settings, while only 40.2% of their “somewhat liberal or progressive” counterparts say the same. About 37% of “very liberal or progressive” students say the same.
The majority of “very or somewhat conservative” students, 57.5% in total, said they are uncomfortable sharing their political opinions in class, a stark contrast to only 21.1% of “somewhat liberal or progressive” students and 26% of “very liberal or progressive” students who feel the same.
The poll’s sample size for the question about expressing political opinions was 1,364 students.
Notably, about 70% of Brown students said it is important that their political views align with the views of their friends.
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Every generation has its zeitgeist PSA meme. Anti-racism. Stranger danger. Just say no to drugs, Stay in school,
I grew up in the age of juvie gangs. Our hammered meme was Don’t Be Peer-Pressured.
I’m so thankful for having the good fortune to have been a kid when I was.
And in other news water is wet. Of coure they are afraid it’s because they are being rational; they will be targeted, given lower grades, shut out, lose opportunities,lose friends, and possibly way worse. It’s like fearing ticking off Muslims; totally rational behavior if you ask me. After all the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
One is tempted to ask, “Why did you choose Brown if you knew this sort of thing would bother you? Then again, one has to ask oneself how much awareness an 18-year-old might have of what hellholes higher education establishments have become these days, and the necessity of vetting for the ones that don’t vs. the ones that do.