I think if the issue is "those elitist left wing students on campus" thats really a perennial for about half a century.
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Most liberal cohort of their own gen (baby boomers not retiring from academic jobs) + v liberal millennials = easy target for angry boomers
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I think it's a sense of sending kids to the city & they'll be lost. Used to be mostly evangelicals, but now a whole swath of conservatives
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Turned into a proxy for a way of life and a way to turn kids leaving rural areas into a bad thing even though becoming successful
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Boomers still shell-shocked by the 1970s, even though the Bush Recessions were a bigger clusterfuck, and entirely homemade.
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Authoritarians always attack the arts and academia. Attack any vector for new ideas against the group with diminishing power.
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I disagree. I think it's classist baiting and also relates to evangelical teachings, cf. vouchers, home schooling. Longstanding resentment.
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That sounds plausible until you realize that the hostility is directed towards learning and science tout court, not students or professors.
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I agree. Think it's more that conservatives view education as an existential threat to conservatism.
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Could be wrong, but there seems to be an element of envy to it with the Boomers fading and Millennials becoming the New Big Deal Gen too.
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Hence all of these stupid articles about "Millennials are killing X" and "All Millennials are spoiled Lena Dunham-types in Brooklyn".
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