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I gave one example.

I had a philosophy professor who was similar (and good friends with the management professor). As this was earlier in my academic career I kept my head down and my mouth shut in that class and got through okay.

I also had a political science professor whom I thought was a closet conservative. Could he have feared negative repercussions if found out?

I also had a gay RA sophomore year. I asked him during a floor meeting on "intolerance" why he was so intolerant of my [beer drinking] lifestyle. He reported me to building staff and I had to write an essay apologizing. In hindsight, I should have pushed the issue and gone before the student judiciary.

I had an earth sciences professor who was already a convert to the Church of Man-Made Global Warming (ten years ago). To speak heresy in his presence would get you a severe tongue lashing. His arguments (as do most man-made global warming arguments) centered on the idea that scientists had reached consensus on The Truth and not the actual science behind the process. Once again, head down, mouth shut.
a) what school is this?
b) whenever I talk to friends who complain about failed relationship after failed relationship, I usually ask them, "what is the one constant in all of these situations?"

Any educational institution will have a mixed bag of nuts. But sounds to me like the "intellectual agenda" isn't only on the faculty side. Ymmv.
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