Conservatives hate Berkeley because liberal bias especially when conservative speakers physically prohibited from speaking. They see Berkeley harboring anarchist and antifa(sists). read more
Conservatives probably don’t hate UC Berkeley though they probably don’t have many positive feelings about it either. The right wing hates UC Berkeley. Hatred is not reasonable, so it probably doesn’t help much to ask why or whence it comes. read more
1. Arrogance: Whether from the affluence, the snobbery of an elite university, or the blatant leftism, Berkeley is America’s most pompous city. Its residents never claim to hail from “Northern California,” the “Bay Area,” or the “East Bay.” It is always “Berkeley,” intoned with an inflection of cheekiness. 2. read more
He is, in other words, that wildly exotic creature: a political conservative. You’d think that the cosmopolitan denizens of the San Francisco Bay Area would have encountered a few, if not in the form of an uncle at Thanksgiving, then perhaps in, I don’t know, a field trip down to Orange County. read more
Roger Scott, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1983) Answered Apr 5, 2018 · Author has 92 answers and 62.2k answer views When I chose to attend Berkeley my fairly conservative great uncle (who was my grandfather-equivalent) was quite alarmed, since all he knew was the superficial, alarmist coverage in the media at the time. read more