Yeah, that seems like a made up thing when you look back at how conformist you had to be to get a university job in the past

I'm curious what the purpose of these posts even is. Again and again people suggest that spamming videos isn't helpful, and now you're doing it with videos you haven't even watched "but like the titles".

Why should anyone even bother engaging with you, when you seem to have no interest in listening or discussing? Here are the last two replies I got from you:

And then crickets on anything further, but now you're back spamming Youtoooobs from Jordan ****ing Peterson.

With every post you make, these assessments seem more and more accurate:

washoe, I worry that you're falling down a rather dark rabbit hole. If you really want to find some "villains" that are behind whatever you don't like about your lot in life, the internet will be more than happy to supply them. Every. single. time. But Googling for things that confirm your preconceived notions isn't research, and it isn't doing you any good.

Anyone interesting in going down a rabbit hole, read this paper. Peer reviewed and authored by some big hitters in social psychology.

Political diversity will improve social psychological science

Anyway, the main point of posting this is to highlight that the ratio of left:right leaning in psychology professors is 14:1. You will find similar ratios to this across social sciences and humanities.

The problem is far worse than just "left-leaning".

According to a friend of mine (who has a Ph.D. in Philosophy), every full-time professor in the Philosophy department at the Cal State school he was teaching at is a Marxist Atheist.

I can believe that. The oft quoted number of self-proclaimed Marxists in the social sciences is ~20%. However, there are going to be some departments that are silos for this nonsense, while other departments who are little to no more than the population average.

My graduate advisor at this same school and department (but over 35 years earlier) was a Marxist.

A few years after my graduation, and shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that advisor gave a colloquium talk titled (going from memory here), Marxism: A Sympathetic Autopsy.

I've never met a real life Marxist in my life

Given marxism has had the absolute philosophical **** kicked out of it because lol Hegel and Hegel is absolutely and completely been moved to the position of no one is Hegelian anymore, I really doubt this is even remotely close to true. Without Hegel its impossible to be anything close to a classical Marxist.

However what has happened to much contemporary critical theory is that it is judged as Marxism by the uninformed because it sounds radical and has lots of big words that no one else uses. Also Joe blow lives in dumbed down binary narrative environment where radicalism = marxim/ capitalism. Where as its very possible to be very radical in a post marxist way. So its very possible the professors are very anti capitalistic.

So cliffs is virulently anti capital view points often get mislabelled as Marxist. They are probably closer to a classical anarchist position.

Jordan Peterson is probably the poster boy for this, his diatribes on why post modernism = marxism are the classic example of why people should stick to their field as he whiffs his analysis on such completely.

Somehow Marxism never once got mentioned when I was in college.

Is it not pretty much accepted if you hold Marxist or strong anti-capitalist views you will pretty much have to seek employment in academia or no where else? At least no where else where your views will be a part of any discussions. you are not going to find many other Marxist types in corporate America, for good reason and as such academia becomes significantly over represented by that group and once they create an echo chamber they make it hostile and unwelcome for others views to co-exist.

The articles above discuss that. Harassment and violence campaigns on top of putting jobs and risk and reputations, if individuals try to push dialogue in to the town square that does not stay with the 'allowed bounds' the far left establishes as what is tolerable. And most often the targets of the far left cancel culture is not the far right but the more independant and centre left. The more disengages liberal person who is sent a strong message that unless you want to deal with the types of lies and smears we will make against you, you should learn to just stay silent.

I think that is the biggest impact of all, as supported by those articles, is that this bullying tactic works, making the extreme left voice, all too often the only one now in the town square on the left side of the discussions.

Thus why Bill Maher rightly says things too often sound like "Onion Headlines".

That you could notice Trolly. That you could NOTICE.

Members of the echo bubble, you are naturally sympatico with, are not the ones who can see they are in it.

What I say there is not controversial at all, and near universally accepted. I think your only reply would be 'not me... them' as all groups who exist in echo bubbles do.

I wish I could find the quote but I'm fairly sure it was a tory MP who decades ago moaned 'why are all the clever people left wing?'

lol the Marxism is so sneaky it’s almost like it’s not even there! You’d think my Russian lit class would have indoctrinated me but all I learned there was how dueling worked.

That you are an exemplar for the worst of the far left tactics while at the same time, like uke saying, "I never saw any of it', is either just this amazing coincidence, that perhaps you guys were amongst the worst within your peer circles or you were blind to it because you will not see what you are.

The most pertinent critique of Marx actually come from the left as the actually read it, engage with it with full intellectual honesty and don't just see the word Marx and jump to a million incorrect assumptions.

I don't disagree with any of this, but you're making the false equivalence that because post modernism =/= marxism, this means that post modernists can't be marxists.

Maybe, idk. These types by definition think power is the answer to everything, and if knowledge = power then if I go work in knowledge then I'll get power.

Its hard for a post modernist to a modernist.

There is nothing more modernist than classical marxism.

Post modernists can be neo marxists to some degree, but that phrase/definition is near useless without knowing details.

No, it isn't. The idea of a centralized group of college groups who book comedians at a single event has been happening for decades (See the HBO series "Crashing" for a look at this exact thing.)

NACA has been around since the 1960s. They book entertainment for campus events, including comedians. They have always had specific standards for specific types of comedy that they want at different campuses. Some allow more edgy stuff, some don't allow more edgy content. If you want to be booked at the widest variety of campuses, you tailor your set specifically for that reason. This has been happening for decades.

If student and academics politics doesn't have a great slice of marxism in it then there's something very seriously wrong.

Same with the left in general.

Attempting to lessen overdose deaths is the end of civilization?

lol, Marx never got mentioned once aside from high school history classes. I acquired my leftish politics outside of class.

There generally a lot of nicotine overdose deaths? Cause if not, your analogy is ****.

Restricting 'edgy content' =/= today's partisan line drawing where comedy is told to conform within certain ideological beliefs only or it is not welcome. Conflating these things does not serve you well.

You could be told to this is the boundary of 'edgy' you can go to, but that did not typically include them pushing it to be just right wing talking [points or left wing talking points only.

Quite the opposite actually. If a bunch of comedians were entering a right wing bastion, you could expect many jokes targeting just that group, very deliberately. Making fun of their extremes and their sensitivities.

This is exactly what todays left does not want and actively cancels in advance.

I love that you think Marx has to be directly referenced or 'it did not happen'. You sound like the far right who say if the words 'I am not racist' are not directly said, nothing in their communications is racist.

Sadly this is where we live now with BOTH SIDES playing the same game, while both saying they do not play it but the other guy does. You ARE the reason for the far right Trolly just as they are the reason for you. You both feed each other and provide cover by using the same disingenuous argumentation tactics.

"Never got mentioned THAT YOU COULD DISCERN...."

FYP.