Some time ago I wrote a post about how it is possible that universities are so efficient at indoctrinating students and training them for far-leftist activism. Why don't (at least a good portion of the) students refuse, doubt, or present criticism of the things told to them? Surely they must be aware of what's going on in the world around them, and what the far left is doing and teaching? Surely the students can think for themselves, and not just believe everything they are told? Surely many of them will have been "inoculated" to the indoctrination by prior knowledge and experience on those things being taught at universities?
You would be surprised.
As I wrote in that other post, it's easy to look at the world from the lens of someone who has been closely following current sociopolitics and what's happening, watching countless hours of youtube videos about the subject. It can be a bit surprising that the people who are really knowledgeable about this modern situation, especially among teenagers, is quite low. A huge amount of teenagers who are going to university for the first time actually have little to no idea. It just doesn't interest them that much. Most of them have never really heard all the arguments and counter-arguments (although the far left is doing its hardest to change that fact, at least when it comes to the former).
One of the major techniques that universities use to indoctrinate students, which is a tactic used by cults, is that of censorship: Students are never exposed to criticism of the doctrine, to the other side, to alternative views. (In fact, students are scared away from even wanting to hear what "the enemy" has to say.)
In the past, and for the longest time, sociopolitical courses at universities used to present all sides of sociopolitical topics, even (and especially) the most controversial ones (such as abortion, gay marriage, gun control, capitalism vs. socialism, the pro-EU and anti-EU stances, and so on and so forth). It was very typical and common to task students with writing essays that studied and defended one side of an issue, and then the other side of the issue. It was also very common to have live debates in class, with one group of students defending one position and another group the opposite position (and this regardless of what the students themselves believed.)
In the vast majority of the universities in the United States, and to an ever-growing extent in (western) Europe, that form of teaching is long gone.
Not only is presenting both sides of an issue, and having students research and discuss both sides (regardless of their personal preferences) not taught anymore, but moreover it's actually outright forbidden for this to be taught. And not only is it forbidden, but this rule is in fact very aggressively enforced, both by university administrators and the brainwashed students themselves. The vast majority of professors have been bullied and intimidated into avoiding this form of teaching, and even talking about it. They are literally too scared to present opposing views to students.
It has got so bad that, perhaps a bit incredibly, the vast majority of current university students have never even heard of such a teaching method. They literally don't know that such a teaching method existed and was common in universities (including their own university). Sometimes some professors who have not been bullied into silence will tell about this to their students, and in the few cases that students don't break into a riot and instead just discuss with the professor in a civil and serious manner, they are actually surprised at hearing this. They had literally never heard of this having even existed. They had never even thought of the idea of students researching and discussing both sides of a controversial argument.
Some of these university professors are writing articles and making videos about this very thing.
In other words, not only are students not taught in this manner (and this rule being very aggressively enforced), but they are even kept in the dark of such a thing having even existed. It's just not talked about. The censorship is almost watertight. The only thing that students are exposed to is the preaching of the doctrine as a fact, and that's it. Professors aren't allowed to do anything else; they aren't allowed to even expose students to other ideas that go contrary to the doctrine. Any professor who breaks this rule will be severely penalized (there have even been lawsuits related to this, by professors suing the university for harassment, discrimination and breach of contract.)
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