I try to choose my battles with liberal professors wisely. Unfortunately, I have to make that choice in almost every class.

I purposely ignore the sprinkling of partial-truths presented to my class like, “the overwhelming majority of Americans feel favorably toward the Affordable Care Act,” or that we all should vote for Hillary because “at least you’ll be making history and we will have a female president.”

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The latter statement did cause reaction from several students — with many declaring we base our votes on accomplishments and experience, not on traits you are born with, like gender.

One debate that still boils my blood revolved around voter photo ID laws. Voter ID laws were presented to my class as laws that were constructed to restrict voting access from minorities and young people. Such laws, according to my professor, were equivalent to the poll tax and literacy test required in the past. To my professor, requiring a person to spend money for an identification card, which one would need to vote, was alienating a portion of the electorate.

It was the one and only time I almost lost my cool in a classroom. I raised my hand and inquired, “Do you really believe that these people are that pathetic? That if they wanted to, they couldn’t acquire an ID? That these people, with a burning desire to participate in the electoral system, couldn’t take advantage of the free ways to get a photo IDm or couldn’t save the small amount of money it may cost to get an identification? That lack of confidence in people is insulting.”

A photo ID is required to do numerous activities in the United States — to purchase alcohol or tobacco, to apply for welfare programs, to get on an airplane — but only when photo ID is required for voting is it considered racist, classist or ageist.

“Voter fraud doesn’t exist,” said my professor. Ironically, our university is less than 100 miles from Philadelphia, a hub of fraudulent voting in Pennsylvania.

The classroom discussion on the topic ended when we all came to the agreement that some sort of identification is warranted for voting. Well, all of us, agreed — except my liberal professor.

This piece is part of a CampusZette series exploring the culture, oddities, and experiences of students on college campuses through their eyes.