The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
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Patrick Luck
I read the New York Review of Books. Every single f***ing article about "academic freedom" or "the crisis of the university" seems to be contractually obligated to include a paragraph (or more!) about how the university has become too ideologically homogenous or something similar. Even now!
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They don't seem to have much concern with physics yet, but the way things are going I also wouldn't be shocked if they resurrect some version of the concept of Jüdische Physik
Prove me wrong.
We deny reality at our peril. Some will try and get away with it. They might succeed - for a time.
But ultimately, reality ALWAYS wins. NO EXCEPTIONS.
It worked beyond their wildest dreams.
Or in real life. Their one and only goal is to enrich the rich and make powerful conservatives more powerful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
There's a world in which cutting taxes would bring in more money, but it's not a world that we've ever lived in.
Yeah. Except we call it science
Tobacco industry "research" muddiyng the waters on tobacco use outcomes is also a lie motivated by profit.
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Who profits from anti-vax? I mean, it goes hand in hand with eugenics, but whose profits are threatened by vaccination?
To MAGA, being conservative but not foaming-at-the-mouth racist is basically the same as being a Marxist. They can't see the difference.
We also have had faculty go crazy with the Reply All to emails about PRIDE events.
Conservatives have representation, but they are outnumbered by people who trust experts so out comes the “I’m a victim!”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/podcasts/the-daily/princeton-university-trump.html
Trump Trash don't even UNDERSTAND Conservatism.
no one made conservatives divorce from reality so thoroughly that it's no longer possible to be both a conservative and someone whose job is studying reality honestly
Science doesn't care what you believe, it's gonna keep existing regardless.
Cause if you do, it kinda gives the game you're playing away.
it definitely isn't because I'm wrong. It must be (((Someone)))"
Parentheses added by me, but definitely meant by you.
No serious person cares about alchemy. American "conservatives" aren't serious people. Universities are for serious people.
So clearly, the answer is "No, I can't define these terms, but I have been taught to fear and despise them."
You're some rando dipshit who can't even vet a reliable graph.
Get out of here with this bullshit.
you're espousing nazi ideology
If unis tend to filter out delusional people, either could explain the trend here
Perhaps something like "you can't work here unless you understand what climate change is, how we worsen it and how deep in the pit we are" would fit better. Also, if they can make it to the end of the sentence, they're probably already a good fit.
https://bsky.app/profile/celestelabedz.bsky.social/post/3lmwnshurx22g
In Europe, conservatives are lazy about it but would not doubt it by a vast majority
https://bsky.app/profile/grifithsam.bsky.social/post/3lndajtjsc22l
*by me
https://bsky.app/profile/hannahszenes.bsky.social/post/3lndbrtv5cc2j
But sometimes everything thinks the same thing because that thing is true! This is how science works.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republican_War_on_Science
And it's like, okay?? Or maybe that's just a very basic fact???
*we* polluted our environment
with cognition disrupting
poison
*sometimes* you/we are not arguing the point ,...
just entertaining the monsters we'v created
🤒
https://bsky.app/profile/partickle.bsky.social/post/3lmkhaw2lks2s
“So we can’t even question climate change?” BUT ALSO “Oh so we’re supposed to trust them? They can’t even tell you the definition of male and female!”
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The prescriptive version of geology is Creationism.
I'll see myself out
But that is the belief bc that is what evidence shows.
The call for 'view point diversity' is just a smoke screen for ejecting and rejecting all the work done on racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
If they truly believed in VPD they would be welcoming people from across the world to share their view points.
Nowadays, the Bulwark guys are called leftist by the Trumpers.
When Newton's theory of gravity was proven wrong, Aristotle wasn't proven right. Instead, Newton failed to account for the time dilation caused by supermassive objects.
That is at least as challenging as the doing the science: how do you get people to accept as true, what they don't understand?
"Trust me I'm a scientist!" won't cut it.
If there is a general clear perception of true and false things, it‘s harder to run an agenda based on fraud and lies.
people who want to be successful that way need to attack a common reality.
And they‘re quite successful with it currently :(
They cannot agree to disagree about whether the Earth is flat.
If society deems murder to be bad and there are no publications calling for murder that does not mean it's not diverse. It's like the appeal-to-authority counter fallacy
It's not a fallacy if the person is an authority.
We love your posts
Conservatives: The sky is red. Lol kek.
Fucking idiots: We must include all these opinions in all institutions and thus we can conclude the sky is purple.
(This also works woth leftists, right wingers and centrists. Funny that...)
And from their perspective, there's no reason for right wingers not to make this demand. It worked for journalism. May as well try it in Academia
The overall number is a lot lower than it used to be, because conservatives don't value the humanities and don't agree with many sciences.
For example: When I was at UCLA, I overlapped with a geologist who later quit a faculty job to spend his time distributing climate change denialism to a mailing list for money.
for some time now foreign think thanks (mostly from the US) have been pouring lots of money into anti-academy movements, always endorsed by our conservative far-right
Bolsonaro took some steps to destroy academic freedom, as the Lava-Jato did before him
It's their own fault they keep expecting reality to bend itself to their frequently-disproven and objectively harmful stupid ideas.
No, they’d rather turn to a magic book about pixies and witches from goat farmers thousands of years ago for answers.
Total dipshits.
Conservatives are locked in on magical thinking, lottery winning, and victimization. God, pick me, I'm traumatized; and let there be nothing else.
Nothing for everyone is better than something for someone else.
They spew - epistemic excrement
His heart sure was in the right place.😂
https://bsky.app/profile/sababausa.bsky.social/post/3kva52vamuc2y
Sry for yelling.
My kids were at school in a really progressive area, school board meetings were about creative alternatives. They set up outdoor classrooms that worked even for cold weather! So many possibilities when each meeting isn't shouting "we need to open the schools with no precautions!"
But, doesn’t that make life so much easier?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6X-EbE_EGo&t=1720s
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A6E7nHFsNsw&t=83s&pp=ygUQZGFyayBtYXR0ZXIgMjUyNQ%3D%3D
In most disciplines I've encountered, there's a thriving conservative movement. Richard Spencer was once a musicology graduate student. We also see it in ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music ed.
In sociology, it's often the criminology folks.
What these people actually want are right wing hacks, because their billionaire funded “think tanks” lack the credibility of academia
Humanities: same, same.
STEM: Agreed.
Conservatives: White men made everything, though, right? And it should all be for sale?
I want Democrats to see how long different kinds of fights take. A lot take no time at all! Some take decades.
I bet it would reveal the preferences of “mainstream media” too.
If you took a history department at a university and the members at The Heritage Foundation, which would exhibit more diversity of thought? Which would be more elite?