Quoted: The liberal arts have become infested with politicized faculty in the last couple decades,
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Yes. If you're in LA, accept the fact that most of your teachers will be idiots. Hardcore idiots. I'm in History for another couple months and then I'm done. Especially watch out for TA grad students. Masters degree students are the worst. Many of them are vindictive little bastards who think they know far more than they do, and since they already have a Bachelor's degree that you should worship the ground they walk upon.
Also, the more to the left they are, the more they will punish you gradewise if you disagree with them. The lesson here is just to nod your head, agree with them, write what they want and get your A. It's not worth arguing about, and it's only four years anyway.
I only started having instructors I could stand my senior year. My military history prof (a lady currently writing a book on A-6's, and who does battlefield walks at Gettysburg with all sorts of people from Pentagon staff to enlisted men in the 82nd) was cool as hell, and my Celtic Studies prof is a great guy too, although you get the idea he knows so incredibly much about medeval history because he doesn't give a wet slap about anything else, which is okay by me.