{"id":1627044,"date":"2022-08-30T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627044"},"modified":"2022-08-30T13:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:19:47","slug":"campus-conformity-college-students-say-they-self-censor-political-opinions-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campus-conformity-college-students-say-they-self-censor-political-opinions-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Conformity: College Students Say They Self-Censor Political Opinions, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcampus-conformity-college-students-say-they-self-censor-political-opinions-poll-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627044&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A large majority of college students say they&#8217;re afraid of talking politics in class, even though they say professors talk politics, according to a poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligent.com\/72-of-college-students-believe-professors-influence-political-views\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which was conducted by the college-ranking site <i>Intelligent<\/i>, found that 59 percent of students &#8220;fear expressing their political beliefs in class.&#8221; Eighty-five percent of students, meanwhile, say their professors express political opinions in class, with 15 percent saying professors do so &#8220;frequently.&#8221; Those political professors are overwhelmingly liberal, according to respondents, with 77 percent of students saying their teachers espouse left-wing ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are losing confidence in universities, the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/poll-americans-lose-confidence-in-predominantly-left-leaning-colleges\/\">reported<\/a>, as higher education has increasingly embraced left-wing &#8220;wokeness.&#8221; Yale Law School <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/a-yale-law-student-sent-a-lighthearted-email-inviting-classmates-to-his-trap-house-the-school-is-now-calling-him-to-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disciplined<\/a> a student for using the term &#8220;trap house,&#8221; which it deemed &#8220;triggering,&#8221; while Princeton <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/how-georgetown-law-school-used-ilya-shapiros-apology-against-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> a law professor for criticizing President Joe Biden&#8217;s pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. University of Virginia student Emma Camp <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/liberal-student-cancel-culture-has-conquered-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in March that &#8220;strict ideological conformity&#8221; is the norm on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one percent of students say their professors either &#8220;occasionally&#8221; or &#8220;frequently&#8221; ridicule them for their political beliefs, with 22 percent saying they have suffered tangible consequences for their beliefs. Nearly three-quarters of students say professors have influenced other students&#8217; beliefs, with 77 percent of conservatives saying college radicalizes liberals.<\/p>\n<p>The poll&#8217;s findings are in line with what Camp wrote in March. Many students fear &#8220;lower grades if they don&#8217;t censor themselves,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large majority of college students say they&#8217;re afraid of talking politics in class, even though they say professors talk politics, according to a poll published Monday. 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