As someone who also went to SMC i can tell you they really try and drill ideologies into your head in classes only semi related, i pretty much kept my mouth shut when i took classes. I remember i had two semesters of history with a teacher who was a good teacher but it was pretty evident in the second class that everytime we talked about about the rise of socialism or communism she would always slip an aggressive tone of how it has been misunderstood or was misappropriated by the soviet union. Not to mention the ever popular "the democratic socialist way is doing things correct" but we have been taught red menace ideologues. It wasnt always direct but always there in tone. I just kept my mouth shut , got my good grades and moved on.
The main area of the campus was filled daily with ideology booths about every oppression you can imagine. I remember my anthro teacher, who was cool, but i remember when talked about the incest taboo...he gave a ..i kid you not..30 minute trigger warning talk about the subject before talking about. I didnt even realize thats what it was until about ten minutes in but after constantly repeating "we are going to talk about something that i know has failed some of you, a taboo that may have not happened in your life", i started to realize what was going on and it got a to a point where i was just internally saying to myself...lets get to the lecture already.
Anyway didnt realize she went there....made me remember how that place was.