ASPartOfMe wrote:
They might think they are the majority in the country but they don't on college campuses where they actually live. This was true of conservatives 40+ years ago when I went to school. The late 70s after Vietnam and Watergate were not exactly comfortable times to be a conservative on campus. The difference is there was not the PC/cancel culture back then.
The students interviewed in the campus reform youtube videos seemed quite emboldened when pressed. But I take your point they were worried about antagonising left wingers, particularly academic staff (although my experience university academics would never be biased against a student based on their beliefs so its an erroneous fear).
I do give the interviewer some credit though when he asked black students on campus about the new building in Atlanta Georgia named after former high court judge Clarence Thomas. All of them enthusiastically agreed the name had to change but when pressed none of them actually knew who Clarence Thomas was (he was appointed during the Reagan administration) so it became clear they were peer pressured to sign a petition and they had no idea what they were signing.
As black college students I would expect them to be a little better informed.