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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by immibis on Sunday November 30, 2025 @08:26AM (#46096457)
Is this a problem? We expect universities to have a pro-truth, pro-reality, pro-knowledge bias, which are things the Republican party overtly rejects. We could expect that Republicans might not make it to universities as often, or they might not want to attend, or they might cease being Republicans upon learning facts and logic. None of this would be surprising and none of this would necessarily be a problem by itself.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by gedy on Sunday November 30, 2025 @09:52AM (#46097100)
> We expect universities to have a pro-truth, pro-reality, pro-knowledge bias

And yet they are far from that. Lots of finger-in-ears, "la-la-la-I can't hear you" behaviour from universities in US/west past decade for sure.

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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by nobodyandproud on Sunday November 30, 2025 @12:32PM (#46098631)
Speaking of fingers in ears…

That happens in conservative circles too. But instead of 4 years, Americans like myself are stuck with 40 years of business indoctrination from pro-business and conservative “leadership”.

The same leadership, by the way, that largely insisted on college degrees in the first place.

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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by lurk2 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @04:16PM (#46100495)
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by immibis on Monday December 01, 2025 @04:56AM (#46105523)
Well they can. Some transgender men can get pregnant AFAIK.

This bias might be strongest in humanities because of self selection - conservatives think those are useless, but can see the utility in engineering - among other reasons.

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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by quasopp on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:50PM (#46113014)
Yes, but that is because they are in fact women. This is obvious, surely.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by overfeed on Monday December 01, 2025 @05:54PM (#46114576)
How very brave of you to create this new account just to post something "obvious". I'm guessing it's "obvious" because of cyclic definitions, and deliberate imperviousness to the idea that chromosonal sex, phenotypical sex and gender aren't strictly equivalent.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by quasopp on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:04PM (#46114703)
I don't subscribe to the sexist belief system that women and men are defined by collections of cultural stereotypes or as mere identities to be opted into.

Quite astounding that people sincerely believe this nonsense and end up so proudly expressing stupidity like "men can get pregnant" because of it.

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