Quote (Thor123422 @ Nov 15 2020 12:05am)
Problem with this is I can specifically point to billionaires who, through donations and department funding, use soft and sometimes explicit demands to install right wing economics professors over left leaning ones.
I don't think you actually believe in the conspiracy honestly, I just think you latched onto it as a new buzzword the same way most conservatives latched onto socialism. But you should know that it is a very real anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, and when you use it you are using a dogwhistle despite what you think it means.
Faculty and graduates self segregate. It is not a coincidence that Sociology is a haven for left thought, and economics / business a bastion for conservative theory. Hard sciences and professional degrees have historically trended to the right, the Liberal Arts obviously to the left. This isn't a conspiracy by billionaires, it's structural factors at play that are creating systemic changes over time.
Stop with the mock seriousness. No one is dog-whistling phantom neo-nazis, and for that matter I can't even imagine a group with less social power or sway. The idea that these groups represent any threat outside of the prison crime the FBI has already infiltrated them for is farcical.
The dominant trend in the modern left has been to attempt a deconstruction of Western culture and thought. We've reached the point where classic liberals are being outflanked and consumed from within for holding onto to antiquated notions of objectivity in a new age. The meritocratic ideal has been reduced to a white supremacist punchline.