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Conservative College Students Need Courage

It was freshman year at my small liberal arts college. I walked into my social psychology class and was immediately asked to share my “preferred pronouns.” I was appalled by the question. “Do I not look like a girl?” I thought to myself. 

I hoped that would be the most uncomfortable part of my first semester; I was blissfully unaware that I would soon spend three weeks trying to “unlearn my whiteness.”  

Growing up in a small, rural town in Pennsylvania, I had never encountered an experience like the one in my social psychology class. To me pronouns weren’t a choice, and the color of my skin wasn’t something I had to “unlearn.”  

I learned very quickly that, despite being in the same nation as my hometown, my college existed in an entirely different moral environment than the one I had been raised in. 

As I look toward my senior year of college, I find myself reflecting on my experience as an outspoken conservative on a predominantly liberal campus. Despite the many obvious problems the college (and so many like it) faces, I am one of very few who has found the courage to actually speak out.  

The purpose of a genuine liberal arts education is to broaden students’ horizons and encourage both intellectual and moral growth through courses in myriad subjects: literature, history, philosophy, the physical sciences, and more. What happens........

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