You know you're smarter than half your professors, and know you could be one ... if they weren't dead set on penalizing you for being conservative. You project your strong in-group attachments onto them. You're an independent thinker. They're solidaristic ideologues.
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They're actually just a lot less defensive to patterns of facts about white people in history, which makes it easier for them to accept them, but you've been pickling in media made for white people of your personality profile and interpret it as dogmatic "identity politics."
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But you're high C, determined, and want to be an academic. You'll show them! You're careful, write what they want, get all As, get into a top grad program. But after a year, you just can't take it. The people aren't enough like you. They talk shit about what you really think.
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You score a assistant gig with a prominent conservative columnist, land at a junior position at National Review, and then you just GO OFF on those speech-stifling cultural Marxists academic "real racist" radicals in print. Your mild-mannered neo-Victorian profs are ... confused.
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Meanwhile, a frustrated conservative college student reads it and nods furiously. She later buys your minor bestseller on why immigration is a threat to the values that made America great, eats it up, cites it in her pristine term paper and gets a B+ . /END
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Disclosure: I am high O, low C -- the socially liberal-est personality profile, and I am exactly what it predicts. My ethnocentrism meter is pegged to zero, and I spent 8 years in graduate school, have a couple masters degrees, but didn't finish my Ph.D. before my clock ran out.
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The reflexive anti-PC attitudes of my conservative upbringing and youthful libertarianism gave me a similar experience to many conservatives students, but I am not in the least dispositionally conservative, so it wasn't really the same.
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I have a hunch that "I don't see color" individualism is super attractive to high-openness white guys, especially if they grew up in a white conservative place. Privileged obliviousness to racial identity gets you started. Low ethnocentrism makes ethnic identification puzzling.
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If nobody gives you the facts that explain why non-whites don't get to not identify with their ethnic groups, it's easy to think that they've *chosen* to see themselves in ethnic terms, and that you have chosen not to.
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Low openness whites are likely to resist these facts, and seek to close off against them, but higher openness whites stay open, and it totally is possible to draw them into wokeness. Privilege blindness makes promising and hopeless cases start out looking equally hopeless.
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One of my best friends is a latino dude who's going to grad school for philosophy who has identical views about dogmatism in academia. He's both super high O and low C. There really is a difference between spaces where all ideas can be debated and ones that aren't that open.
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