It's striking to me how the left has ridden the prestige of academia so hard that academia has become something of a joke even among many academics. There's so much trash that's been output by activist departments that are basically just glorified think tanks, and the only people who still treat academic credentials like they mean something are either activist hacks themselves who shove their credentials in your face at every opportunity, or midwit cheerleaders who don't even know what they're defending.
So it's quite something to see these people continuing to burn down the institution that gave them so much clout in the first place. Even the hard sciences have been tainted by fraud, overproduction of bad research, and activist meddling that blatantly places political sensitivities before accuracy. Nevermind all the "science journalist" scum who outright lie about what academics even believe, such as that biologists are at a consensus that race is just an arbitrary social construct, or that neuroscientists are at a consensus that there are no differences between male and female brains, etc.
Or more recently the way that the MSM treated the lab leak hypothesis as something that The Experts™ roundly reject, when several experts were speaking up about it at the time and being attacked by other experts who were terrified of the world finding out that their field was responsible for a biological Chernobyl. And even a lot of mainstream normielib hacks like Jon Stewart couldn't pretend not to see how absurd the whole thing was.
Once people stop taking academic credentials seriously, especially from liberal arts and social "science" majors, the left is gonna have a way more difficult time bamboozling normies into thinking that leftist ideology is simply what all the smart and educated people believe. They marched through the institutions and did a remarkable job of conning the intelligentsia into conflating their activist "research" with scholarship, and conflating "right-wing" ideas with ignorance and crackpottery, but they rode that shit so hard that they broke it.
It's striking to me how the left has ridden the prestige of academia so hard that academia has become something of a joke even among many academics. There's so much trash that's been output by activist departments that are basically just glorified think tanks, and the only people who still treat academic credentials like they mean something are either activist hacks themselves who shove their credentials in your face at every opportunity, or midwit cheerleaders who don't even know what they're defending.
So it's quite something to see these people continuing to burn down the institution that gave them so much clout in the first place. Even the hard sciences have been tainted by fraud, overproduction of bad research, and activist meddling that blatantly places political sensitivities before accuracy. Nevermind all the "science journalist" scum who outright lie about what academics even believe, such as that biologists are at a consensus that race is just an arbitrary social construct, or that neuroscientists are at a consensus that there are no differences between male and female brains, etc.
Or more recently the way that the MSM treated the lab leak hypothesis as something that The Experts™ roundly reject, when several experts were speaking up about it at the time and being attacked by other experts who were terrified of the world finding out that their field was responsible for a biological Chernobyl. And even a lot of mainstream normielib hacks like Jon Stewart couldn't pretend not to see how absurd the whole thing was.
Once people stop taking academic credentials seriously, especially from liberal arts and social "science" majors, the left is gonna have a way more difficult time bamboozling normies into thinking that leftist ideology is simply what all the smart and educated people believe. They marched through the institutions and did a remarkable job of conning the intelligentsia into conflating their activist "research" with scholarship, and conflating "right-wing" ideas with ignorance and crackpottery, but they rode that shit so hard that they broke it.