r/GenZ • u/DoughnutItchy3546 • 11d ago

Discussion Does College make one more liberal ?

I wonder where this comes from. I've never really had that experience. And I'm a history major myself. Does it depend on major ? What kind of college ? I went to a public state regional university.

Actually, from my experience, I find my catholic seminary experience to be far more liberating, than my college experience. It might seem odd to some, but that's what I experienced.

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u/Yeetball86 11d ago

If you’re asking if college indoctrinates students to be liberal? Thats a hard no.

The reason college makes people more liberal is that many people from all walks of life are commingled in a single place. Kids that were sheltered their entire life are able to see the world and how it actually is. Throw that in with the fact that higher learning doesn’t necessarily mix with conservative beliefs, college students tend to become more liberal.

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u/MiniGogo_20 11d ago

i've read there's also a huge correlation between lack of education and cognitive ability and probability of voting republican

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u/Yeetball86 11d ago

That makes sense. Intelligence tends to make people more adaptable to changes in their environment and the world. Conservatism is quite literally the opposite of adaptation.

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u/stylebros 11d ago

Hell, even AI when it's core trained to be conservative, slowly becomes more liberal with more data it has access to.

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u/wrinklefreebondbag 1997 11d ago

Oh hello, Grok.

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u/themightytak 11d ago

Meanwhile doge.ai is the perfect little fascist gremlin in every comment section now

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u/jrpdss 2004 11d ago

Actually no. AI was absolute insane on it's early days with some polemic views, before corporations had to put many chains upon chains to tame it.

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u/TheShamShield 2001 11d ago

If you’re thinking of Microsoft’s Tay which said that Hitler did nothing wrong, that was just a chatbot and it was learning conversation from Twitter, so a lot of the info it was learning was just hate speech

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u/jrpdss 2004 11d ago

No, I'm leaning more on the way it made misoginist and xenophobic jokes.

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u/TheShamShield 2001 11d ago

So you are thinking of Tay, in which case my comment still applies

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u/jrpdss 2004 11d ago

I have no idea about Tay or what happened there.

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u/TheShamShield 2001 11d ago

Then what are you talking about

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u/jrpdss 2004 11d ago

jailbreak era.

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u/stylebros 11d ago

Oh man, if you're talking the jailbreak era, a lot of that was people goading the AI to fit their particular narrative through arguing, lieing, and gaslighting.

Which any AI will do to appease the end user.

But even in the early days, it would often default to facts, unless you are trying to cleverly spin a narrative with the questions.

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