A university education makes people less likely to endorse authoritarianism and racial prejudice, as well as more likely to adopt right-wing economic attitudes. [Data from the UK]

@ganymede

aaand THIS is why they want to cut funding to universities and research institutions¹

be wary of propaganda you may encounter which tries to veil this intent behind another ‘plausible’ complaint

¹ and they tend to find global warming results which authoritarians don’t like