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Conservatives are right — schools are turning students liberal

These are the exact college subjects that converted me

Kristine Hadeed
7 min readJun 1, 2023
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Books bans, school board takeovers, hostage university funding — these are some of the strategies the Republican Party has been deploying of late in effort to save our nation’s youth from the perils of “wokism.”

Now, I don’t know exactly what “woke” means to conservatives (apparently neither do they), but I’ll admit — there’s some merit to their claims.

Schools ARE turning students more liberal. And I’m a perfect example of this.

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. My parents were, and still are, single-issue anti-abortion voters, and they homeschooled me and my 10 siblings under the same ideology.

For a while, I held many similar views to them. I even voted for John McCain over Obama in 2008, the first year I was eligible to cast a ballot in a presidential election.

But around that time, something in my brain was changing; I had enrolled in college.

Today, I am pro-choice, LGBTQ-supporting ex-vangelical, and I have voted Democrat in every presidential election since 2008, making me a verified “woke libtard” in the eyes of many conservatives.

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Kristine Hadeed
Kristine Hadeed

Written by Kristine Hadeed

Critical thinker and non-partisan community organizer advocating for the liberation and dignity of all people.

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