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[–]EngieBengie 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am glad I am not the only one who also realizes this possibility. Yes, I agree with this being the probable cause of why leftism came to dominate universities. One of the things I often run into is conservative using debt as an excuse not to go to college but there are other excuses they love to use such as when they pretend all college offers is gender studies and woman studies. As a result they cede a lot of ground in areas that have a lot of influences such as technology and marketing and humanities that are valuable and can make for good, well paying careers. A hard right movement needs to expand beyond the same old shtick that conservatives have been peddling for decades about how we should go to a trade school instead.

We need more right wingers in college and there are a lot of great and promising careers on the horizon that require college educations. Computer Science is future proof and is going to be needed if we want to carve out our place in the internet since mainstream platforms are unreliable. I have also heard that certain careers in the Humanities are not so easily replaceable with automation so that's a good thing as well.

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with computer science, it can be tough to get a job in that. The dotcom bubble had burst around 99 and a lot of those jobs went away and haven't come back. Humanities is a fake major like gender studies.

[–]EngieBengie 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

When I said humanities I was specifically talking about Philosophy which is useful and influential.

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how can you get a job in humanities, if just as a humanities teacher in college it's not a real major.