Last Year, I Was a Bryn Mawr Girl. Now
I’m at Hillsdale.
Substack,
by
Jane Kitchen
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
2/1/2022 8:35:45 AM
My family is liberal and not at all religious. Depending on where you grew up, that fact can either be a non-event or a defining part of who you are. In Queen Creek, Arizona, it meant everything.
I was regularly taunted by kids in my class who said that non-believers like me were going straight to hell. My mom took our Obama-Biden campaign sticker off our car after the second time it got keyed and I remember hearing the n-word in elementary school after Obama’s election.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
erobot 2/1/2022 8:50:24 AM (No. 1057597)
Hilllsdale is a well kept secret in the media.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Scrubber 2/1/2022 8:55:01 AM (No. 1057602)
I have never, not one time, heard of a liberal’s car being vandalized. Mine was and most conservatives I know won’t put stickers on.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/1/2022 9:05:47 AM (No. 1057619)
So long as kids, like this young girl, go to college to tell everyone else what they already believe, rather than try to learn what others would teach them, colleges and universities will continue to turn out the hyper-narcissistic snowflakes that so dominate them today. For example, this young girl was willing to debate her professor over a line in Genesis which she admitted to never having read. That statement by itself reveals an ignorance of the Bible on the same level as someone in kindergarten. Such a presumptive attitude drips with the self-importance, even self-righteousness, of an extreme narcissist.
I know it's difficult...virtually all teenagers are narcissists, it's practically a phase of life...for example, I've never been smarter than I was at 21....or at least that's what I thought.
But until this girl gets over herself, and actually tries to learn something, she is condemned to a life of ignorant introspection.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/1/2022 9:06:01 AM (No. 1057620)
Color me skeptical. She's been at Hillsdale three weeks and is still in the honeymoon phase. Just wait until her smug liberalism gets challenged a few times and she loses a few fact-based debates. She won't be allowed to haul out the racist/sexist/bigot/xenophobe card. Then she'll hate Hillsdale more than she hated Bryn Mawr. She left Bryn Mawr because she wasn't able to adapt to online classes, not because she disagreed with their politics.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WinterParker 2/1/2022 9:18:24 AM (No. 1057629)
I agree #2. in addition, "underfunded schools" is an idea she needs to be disabused of. Over funded schools with top heavy bureaucracies and mismanagement is more like it. But Jane is young and her eyes are being opened. I loved her piece.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
paral04 2/1/2022 9:27:57 AM (No. 1057635)
Bull! Republicans don't go around keying cars. That is what the left does.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 2/1/2022 9:29:17 AM (No. 1057638)
FTA: "Someone on Twitter cited my migration to Hillsdale as an example of following an ideology to my own peril. I think just the opposite happened; I rejected an ideology and it set me free. When I stopped being scared to say what I really thought and surrounded myself with people who put their principles into practice, I was able to begin really thinking for myself."
This doesn't sound like someone who's smug or unwilling to learn to me. It sounds like a young lady who's maturing. Someone who's walking away from fear.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Pegmo 2/1/2022 9:38:02 AM (No. 1057646)
Amazing she could adapt to two such different environments so quickly.
Always intetesting as well to see that the divide between liberal thought and constitutiinal conservatism points back to beliefs about God.
If nothing else she will get to know conservative religious peers up close and personal and it will be harder to demonize them as a group from a distance.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 2/1/2022 9:39:42 AM (No. 1057648)
Playing victim is a standard leftist tactic. Her mother may have been honked at or even been yelled at while driving around with an Obozo sticker on the car, but keyed? Maybe the keyer's were trying to remove the sticker from her car, not running a key down the side. What would be the purpose of running a key down the side of the car?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
weirdone 2/1/2022 9:45:19 AM (No. 1057659)
You didn't grow up in a conservative town, you grew up at Hillsdale.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 2/1/2022 9:53:05 AM (No. 1057666)
God uses people and circumstances to achieve his purpose. The hounds of heaven may be pursuing her. She has learned that Christians are not the close-minded, ignorant people she had labeled them. She may eventually respond to an intellectual desire to read the Bible. She may have great revelations by the time she gets through Romans.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mofongo 2/1/2022 9:58:56 AM (No. 1057673)
I asked a liberal friend who is a well known sociology professor at a top-flight university which American colleges are passionate about serious objective teaching. He replied: only Hillsdale.
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#6 How many times have we seen the culprit who lit a match or put graffiti on a black church, turned out to be a black person trying to get the race war going?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 2/1/2022 10:03:37 AM (No. 1057689)
Pray that this young lady's heart will open up to find Jesus Christ ss her Savior.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/1/2022 10:04:38 AM (No. 1057693)
Colleges and Universities who went on line because of Kung Flu did substantial damage to their students, especially those students with STEM majors.
And some of those schools made things worse by sticking with traditional grading, rather than pass-fail.
If I were still teaching, I would have argued for pass-fail, and if I lost the argument, I would have given all A's.
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How would Hillsdale be for a very observant Jewish girl?
We have zero interest in the liberal "Jewish" schools, but similarly have zero interest in her going to a school where another religion is pushed. She may end up going to school in Israel out of lack of options.
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#3, the Hillsdale professor thought her take on the line was a great point and encouraged her to bring up such points in class...even when those points disagreed with his own (actually, it reads to me like he encouraged her to bring up those points especially when they disagreed with his own). Her point in the article was NOT that she had made a good point disagreeing with the professor, her point was that the professor did not discourage her from disagreeing with him and even suggested that she should do so in front of others.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Avikingman 2/1/2022 11:32:08 AM (No. 1057832)
From Hillsdale's web site:
"Hillsdale College is a Christian school with an earnest and vibrant spiritual life. The College has always welcomed anyone to study here regardless of their faith tradition. For that reason, we do not have an institutional statement of faith to which all students must submit, nor do we have a required chapel service."
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I call Horse Purge on this gal's claims. I seriously doubt any of this ever happened.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Avikingman 2/1/2022 11:52:54 AM (No. 1057859)
The author of the article is holding a round table / zoom / webinar tonight. Details below the article.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/1/2022 12:14:26 PM (No. 1057887)
I never heard anyone after Obama got elected use the n word except low rent blacks on the DC/MD/VA subway system using the n word all the time when referring to each other or other blacks and as for your Obama sticker getting keyed - BS. My NoBama sticker go cut up so the "n" was removed and as I approached my car in the parking lot, a black woman walked towards me smiling.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
pensom2 2/1/2022 1:01:15 PM (No. 1057949)
A decade ago, I volunteered as a part-time religious adviser/counselor to some students at a local elite, expensive, college. The 200 or so students with whom I interacted uniformly told stories about how their professors talked the talk of being open to differing philosophies and political persuasions, but any student who tried to walk that walk and disagree with a professor's ideology was rudely awakened when they actually argued against that ideology in an assignment or essay exam. Their assignments and exams were heavily downgraded. This disillusioned these students considerably.
I told them that I confronted the same irony 40 years ago as an undergraduate. However, once I began studying in law school, even the extremely liberal law professors reacted differently. They didn't care what position I might take in an exam or in-class Socratic dialogue, so long as I could make a persuasive argument defending my position. What a breath of fresh air. I suppose a serious study of law teaches one that there really are multiple sides to every argument, and more than one point of view may bear genuine merit. That's one of the three or four complimentary things I can say about attending law school. Admittedly, I can also identify numerous negative aspects.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 2/1/2022 2:02:11 PM (No. 1058021)
This is a brilliant essay. It should be a must read.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 2/1/2022 2:12:12 PM (No. 1058031)
She still sounds like a liberal disappointed that a complete "college experience" was being denied to her in her college of choice and that she would return to Bryn Mawr at the drop of a hat if they removed COVID restrictions. I doubt she'll recognize her hypocrisy in making things all about her, and will rejoin her "crowd" after graduation.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 2/1/2022 2:20:56 PM (No. 1058039)
Maybe she'll open her mind enough to see God is real, and understand the promise of Jesus.
Sad for all those nasty, narrow minded, anti-American rich b**ches with hearts of stone and brains of mush.
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