Conservatives : Do you feel like your views are hated on in the college setting ?

[ProgressiveModerate]

I'm pretty Conservative in the context of my age cohort - don't really participate in (and often outright oppose) any of the "trendy" campus protests. I'm also Conservative in a lot of my internal value system - I don't drink, do marijuana, do random hookups, ect (though I'm not hyper-religious no sex before marriage type). I also tend to be more optimistic than most around me when it comes to thing such as capitalism, income inequality, and so on - so many young people seem to be stuck in this negative mindset of "I'm doomed to do worse than my parents, will never be able to win a home, ect" where I don't really believe that.

I do get the sense that a lot just don't understand my values and may even look at me as "less than" because I don't agree with the mainstream ideologies on campus and am generally not an angry person about many of these things, but I think people underestimate the number of relatively a-political people on college campuses - I go to a liberal arts college in NY and known many people who have little to no interests in politics and generally get along with them just fine.

[ProgressiveModerate]

I'm not a conservative, but they'd hate me for simply not joining in their protests or immediately hopping on every new social justice thing that comes up every ten minutes. Being a white male probably doesn't help with that either, and silence is considered violent now.

The best thing about these protests is that they're exposing all the Ivy League and other big schools for what they are. It ain't about education, it's about the money and prestige.

I'm sort of in this camp as well and what I've realized is I don't really care if those types dislike me - they aren't even a majority on most college campuses and not the types of folks I'd want to hang around all the time. I've found my home more with less political types - I think people underrated how many college students have relatively little to no interests in politics.

[ProgressiveModerate]

How much leftists students are there on the average american economic major college classes? (I'm talking about intermediate macroeconomics, industrial organization, monetary theory, etc, not intro micro or intro macro which to my understanding are also studied by people of other majors to complete their general studies requirements).

From my experience college students in STEM fields like CS, ECON, and math tend to be less political but not necessarily Conservative.

[ProgressiveModerate]

How much leftists students are there on the average american economic major college classes? (I'm talking about intermediate macroeconomics, industrial organization, monetary theory, etc, not intro micro or intro macro which to my understanding are also studied by people of other majors to complete their general studies requirements).

From my experience college students in STEM fields like CS, ECON, and math tend to be less political but not necessarily Conservative.

Economics ain't STEM. Maybe the econometrics majors and the 'math economics' MIT majors, but not the rest.

My bad - I'm a math major so all the ECON classes I've taken and am thinking about taking skew more mathy - sometimes I forget.