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With some of my fellow Stanford Law students, there’s no room for argument


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Stanford has been increasingly quite polarized for a good while - had no notion it was truer in the Law School, though.

It's been VERY unpleasant in the UG community vis a vis Israel/Palestinian issues (in which area, the hostile Left vastly predominates).

Think Berkeley is about the same, if not more so.
Stanford used to be fairly moderate overall, to the point where no one cared much about politics even back to Vietnam War days (very different from Berkeley).

This was especially true of the business school (one of if not THE best in the country).

All this spilled over to and from the Tech community in the Bay Area too, to the point where my son said the software people were tensely polarized.

He said he just tried not to discuss politics at all for fear of encountering unpredictable alienation.

There's a fair overlap between the Stanford Computer Sci Dept., the Business School and the Tech culture. Not sure how other departments relate.

Google used to be similar in regards to political polarization.
FWIW There is an ongoing revolution so-called in the Tech Industry now, instigated by a combination of recessionary influences and the AI revolution (sorry to use same word again).

It's changed the status between the big corporations re AI, and between engineers and leadership "castes" re finances. Wonder how all this will affect political affiliations.


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