I don’t know, I spent my time in the business school.
And you are more the norm than people on either side of the wokeness/CRT/cancel culture arguments will admit.
The
most common college major in America is those that fall under the umbrella of "Business and Management."
Conservatives complain about how supposedly everyone is borrowing $200K to major in Medieval Lesbian Basketweaving and that's why they had a hard time getting a job after college when that is simply not what most people are doing.
The typical college student in America is not the person who graduates from high school in the spring and then in the fall moves onto the campus of a leafy residential four-year university. It's someone who has been out of any type of formal education for at least a few years, who is probably working part- or full-time, who is attending a school in the metro area where they were already living, and who may also be raising children or married. They're not studying English or history beyond whatever 1000-level class is required and when they are studying it it's probably an incredibly dumbed down class that's a giant PowerPoint presentation with multiple choice tests. No research papers, no class discussions. Nobody is writing a senior thesis at the local commuter school for their BBA in marketing.
Political discourse is blind to this because the people who work in media and politics and who are on Twitter all day are people who went to elite schools (most of which do not offer a business degree as an undergraduate degree and mostly produce liberal arts and humanities graduates) and were probably involved in on-campus activities that encouraged discussion of that stuff (College Republicans/Democrats, debate team, an LGBT group, volunteering for a political campaign, etc).
The overwhelming majority of college students are never in a situation where they are susceptible to becoming woke in the first place.
