Amelia, I didn't ignore you. I posted specifically in response to your question about "thinking with emotions". None of these statements have any emotional basis, in fact one could argue that a generalized statement (such as "all colleges are liberal indoctrination grounds") is much more emotional.
Drath,
I asked you to stop with the vic/doomi thing. We all had a little giggle over it. We are separate individuals and I have never met Adroomi. There is a good chance that there are many things we would disagree on.
I don't believe I was in any way mean to you. If I hurt your feelings, I'm sorry. However, your experience in college was different than mine. I have attended two colleges, both which had outspoken college republican organizations: Johns Hopkins University and The University of Wisconsin, Madison. Just because you felt marginalized at St Martin's college, does not mean that all colleges are grounds of liberal indoctrination. I really doubt that Bringham Young University could be considered liberal. My point was, if being in a school which had a large number of republicans in the student body was important to you, perhaps you should have chosen a different college. (By the way, which St. Martin's is this, I got a number of returns when I did a search).
Now on to vocabulary, I hate that our discussion has been reduced to this but:
breeding ground: n.
A place where animals breed.
A place or set of circumstances that encourages the development of certain ideas or conditions: a laboratory that is a breeding ground for new inventions.
Therefore, both statements are identical. True, you did not state that all college graduates are liberals. However, assuming that colleges are "liberal breeding grounds" (note above, same thing, I prefer it because it flows better) then one must assume that some sort of special "anti-liberal resistance" is required to come out of college right wing. If this is the case, then fewer than 50% of all college graduates would be republican (running on the idea that 50% went in and not every one could "resist").
This would lead to fewer republicans in all aspects of educated careers, including politics. Democrats would win outright in that case. Since this isn't happening, we have to assume that there isn't any sort of indoctrination going on.
Its funny, but I never felt indoctrinated. Lets see, in all my classes we never discussed politics: Biochem, Chem, Organic Chem, Calc, Multivariable Calc, Genetics, Devel. Bio, Russian Language (multiple years), Physics and various seminars on Biophysics and Biochemistry... nope, never got indoctrinated. In fact, I can tell you that none of those professors listed above would have given a rats a$$ what your political leaning was. You either know the answer to the question or you don't.