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<blockquote data-quote="bell" data-source="post: 42964" data-attributes="member: 354">I&#039;d relate it back to an earlier post of yours where it&#039;s less to do with &quot;activism&quot; and more to do with clique-finding, with some regard for relationships and &quot;breaking in&quot; to stronger social footholds. I don&#039;t think these are the students participating in pro-Palestinian rallies. That might be the case in the US, I don&#039;t know.In Commonwealth countries I&#039;d like to think that things aren&#039;t as diseased, but I would still be surprised if conservative ideas had any purchase at all in these institutions. I see this with a lot of Asian students for instance, where an idea doesn&#039;t just hold on the merits but is tied to a social obligation as well, so that an idea can be &quot;challenged&quot; and ought to be, but only because of some social harm that idea brings. They aren&#039;t going to protest against it, but if confronted they&#039;re likely to lean one way. So it probably turns more on whether that idea can be tied to the idea that &quot;good = normal&quot;, or anything that promotes a &quot;healthy&quot; worldview.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bell, post: 42964, member: 354"] I'd relate it back to an earlier post of yours where it's less to do with "activism" and more to do with clique-finding, with some regard for relationships and "breaking in" to stronger social footholds. I don't think these are the students participating in pro-Palestinian rallies. That might be the case in the US, I don't know. In Commonwealth countries I'd like to think that things aren't as diseased, but I would still be surprised if conservative ideas had any purchase at all in these institutions. I see this with a lot of Asian students for instance, where an idea doesn't just hold on the merits but is tied to a social obligation as well, so that an idea can be "challenged" and ought to be, but only because of some social harm that idea brings. They aren't going to protest against it, but if confronted they're likely to lean one way. So it probably turns more on whether that idea can be tied to the idea that "good = normal", or anything that promotes a "healthy" worldview. [/QUOTE]

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