If you think that posting a comment on hacker news revealing that your son was forced to take a particular class that you disagree with is going to harm your son, you are being deeply paranoid.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkNIOkGtnQ

I went back to school to finish my CS degree about 5 years ago. I was a libertarian until a few years before that, and until a year ago I was in grad school.

I was also one of very few Bush voters in a liberal leaning History department during the start of the Iraq war.

I don't need to watch a Youtube video designed to scare conservative parents to understand what is going on in academia.

It is most certainly not common at American Universities to require CS students to take an entire class devoted to Marxism. That's why I asked for evidence because it is an extraordinary claim. And it sounds like a claim designed feed the conservative paranoia regarding college.