When this editor was teaching at a liberal arts college in the early ’90s, the gay and lesbian student group put up signs all over campus claiming that one in ten people was gay. That seemed high at the time, and the study behind it has been discredited. Now the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, a center-right think tank, has published a report saying that almost 40 percent of students at liberal arts colleges claim to be LGBTQ. What’s responsible for the spike? Abigail Shrier wrote a book about the phenomenon among high school students and has since been marked as a “stochastic terrorist” whose work inspired the Buffalo mass shooter, according to Rolling Stone. And a fourth-grade teacher in Austin claimed that 20 of her 32 students had come out to her as LGBTQIA+.
Almost 40% of students identify as LGBTQ at liberal arts colleges. At some colleges it is as high as 70%.
What could be the cause of this huge spike?
— The College Fix (@CollegeFix) December 27, 2022
The College Fix reports:
Almost 40 percent of students identify as LGBTQ at liberal arts colleges, according to a report published by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, a center-right think tank that researches partisanship in academic and scientific fields.
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In the report, Kaufmann linked the trend of higher LGBTQ student populations at liberal arts colleges to their substantial liberal and female demographics, while also stating that these factors alone could not fully explain the cause.
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The report notes that a majority of students identify as LGBTQ at three out of the 159 campuses: 51 percent at Oberlin, 61 percent at Wellesley and 70 percent at Smith College, with a 6 percent margin of error. Out of the three liberal arts colleges, the latter two are notably for women only.
So we suppose the explanation is that the percentage of LGBTQ students was always this high, but only now are they in safe spaces where they’re free to come out about their sexuality.
This also underscores how the LGBTQI+ identifier conveys social power & prestige in our progressive-dominated society. For example, how many major corps have DEI hiring initiatives encompassing these identities? Being “non-binary” is an advantage in powerful progressive bastions.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 27, 2022
So not only is it a social contagion—and we know well the many causes of it—but students are also responding, not necessarily consciously, to the incentive structures, validation signals, professional cues, financial cues, social pressures, all around them.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 27, 2022
The cause is the need to feel that you belong.
Everyone influential on campus (professors, faculty members, etc) preaches the LGBTQ gospel. Most young inexperienced kids on campus don’t want to feel left out
— Obi_1_D_AllKnowing (@obiopiah) December 27, 2022
Just like there's virtue signaling, this is virtue identifying.
— Nick Flor 🥋+🇺🇸 (@ProfessorF) December 28, 2022
Because being a victim is rewarded in 2022.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) December 27, 2022
The truth is that very few of these kids are actually LGBT. They’ve been confused, indoctrinated, and encouraged to identify as something else. Especially young white men, it’s their way to escape the “privilege” label.
— T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) December 27, 2022
Social engineering
— Ryan Keyworth (@Rkeyworth24) December 27, 2022
Because it makes them feel special and they are rewarded for it.
— Janine Scott (@JanineAScott) December 27, 2022
They keep adding letters to broaden the identities and participation in the club.
— Richie McPeak (@McpeakRichie) December 27, 2022
That “Q” for questioning certainly leaves open a lot of terrain.
Social contagion. They want something that makes them different yet they also yearn to be part of a group that is simultaneously getting a lot of attention
— Jason Crouch (@jasoncrouch) December 28, 2022
As we said above, Shrier looked into this and had her book pulled from Target temporarily, and other bookstores won’t carry it. Asking the question of what explains such a spike is considered anti-LGBTQ behavior.
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