American students are faking their wokeness, Justin Webb in the Times

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Igneococcus · 29/08/2025 14:13

I can't see this article by Justin Webb shared anywhere yet.

"A study released this month by the psychologists Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman suggests that a majority of American students are faking their wokeness. More than 1,400 students at two of the top universities in the US — Northwestern and Michigan — were asked whether they ever pretended to hold more progressive views than they truly endorsed to succeed professionally or socially: 88 per cent said they did. More than 80 per cent said they had submitted coursework that misrepresented their views in order to align with professors."
https://www.thetimes.com/article/a950479a-1878-4646-a552-0a650a47b1d6?shareToken=7c1c3266cd65f3258f9ed858ebe2cd02

Donald Trump didn’t start this quiet war on woke

Like his Republican Party takeover or social media use, the president’s attack on universities simply tapped into a growing mood

https://www.thetimes.com/article/a950479a-1878-4646-a552-0a650a47b1d6?shareToken=7c1c3266cd65f3258f9ed858ebe2cd02

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Shedmistress · 29/08/2025 17:01

were asked whether they ever pretended to hold more progressive views than they truly endorsed to succeed professionally or socially: 88 per cent said they did. More than 80 per cent said they had submitted coursework that misrepresented their views in order to align with professors."

They absolutely had to in order to get in and pass the qualifications.

They had to submit EDI statements that needed to prove beyond reasonable doubt about how woke they were or they'd not get a place. Anyone submitting not declaritive enough wokery work would have been cancelled. If you don't know what was going on, look at Benjamin Boyce's Evergreen State University recordings about what went on when Bret Weinstein refused to stay away from campus and just go in and do his job.

lcakethereforeIam · 29/08/2025 16:54

In Spiked, although about British universities

https://archive.ph/wMOW2

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/28/gender-critical-academics-must-put-their-heads-above-the-parapet/

Connie Shaw is so brave and so right. The Academics need to speak up. They have protections that students don't.

Gender-critical academics must put their heads above the parapet

Trans activists will continue to run amok on campus if feminists stay silent.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/28/gender-critical-academics-must-put-their-heads-above-the-parapet/

SerendipityJane · 29/08/2025 16:46

'twas ever thus.

The danger is that when people are allowed to express themselves freely (i.e. in a ballot box) the resulting disconnect becomes "proof" that the election was rigged.

lcakethereforeIam · 29/08/2025 16:24

The new MacCarthy-ites; land of the free, first amendment rights, being your authentic self, but only if you're in lockstep with people who will lie about a fundamental fact of who they are.

PennyAnnLane · 29/08/2025 15:07

Well I’ve certainly handed in coursework arguing for a point of view that was the opposite of what I’d originally intended to say, and that I didn’t agree with, because it was easier to find sources to support that point of view and I’m lazy. You just do what you have to to get the grade!

SailingWonder · 29/08/2025 14:36

Yep.

JellySaurus · 29/08/2025 14:17

Unsurprising. I'm sure this is widespread. People are terrified of social censure and its possible consequences, especially younger people at the beginning of their careers.

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