david brooks writing that the left "purged" conservatives from universities takes some real balls when people like david brat famously hold professorships in ayn randonomics endowed in perpetuity by like a third-generation scaife mutant
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The system really is self selecting. If you value research and teaching, you'll go into academia. If you value money, you'll go into business. No fake purge required.
These clowns live in such a bubble that they aren't even aware of the near-constant precarity experienced by adjunct faculty, who are far, far more numerous than the sum total of conservative scholars who legitimately fear for their jobs
Fucking PapaJohn Business Schools!
Cannot even produce widgets that don't go all ouroboros on themselves and their families.
Hot and ready for debasement & the resultant degeneracy that follows when sunk in such fetid muck.
The red sweaty face of PapaJohn.
Willful ignorance all day, everyday.
I always wonder if these dorks have actually met tenured faculty from the business school at any point, most of mine ranged from "Still Voting For Zombie Reagan" to "Libertarian Goldbug".
One bright spot in the current mess is that if universities resist + survive the administration’s attempt to ruin them, they’ll have considerably less incentive to keep hiring discredited conservatives
David Brooks is your typical right-wing, "I'm the real victim" clown. Like that clown organization FIRE, he and them ignore all the religious and right-wing universities in the South.
The 50-year project to financialize every university in America and turn it into a real estate holding company was definitely something the left did, after purging all the conservatives.
I can't imagine being as cravenly terrified as Brooks is of admitting he was wrong.
"Did I make a mistake in backing the people promising disastrous tariffs? No -- it's the fault of the people who didn't embrace the folks calling for disastrous tariffs."
The only “purging” has been the conversion of small minded conservatives into open minded “liberals” by exposure to ideas that came from outside Butt Nugget, Iowa where they grew up.
Most academics aren’t even actual liberals. They’re just more liberal than MAGA.
There also is the whole aspect that conservative "thinking" and higher education tend to be incompatible, due to the absolute stupidity of most of those conservative "thoughts"
It's like a chiropractor complaining about not being in the room with doctors for cancer discussions.
Had to turn that part off(personal policy to not watch anything David Brooks has any opinion platformed on) but yeah, they simply don’t get that right wing politics are and have been anti-academic and attract that audience, it’s been this way for decades and has obvious results
Continues to baffle me, as I have 1 undergrad and 2 Masters, and I never encountered a "leftist" professor. I encountered a lot of professors who bent over backwards to make sure rightists weren't mocked for their unsupported beliefs (political economics and a criminal justice class come to mind)
among many other disgusting and unethical moments in her career, she advised her students to dress like sluts and go to Kavanaugh's parties because that's how they'd get picked as clerks
How much you wanna bet this is what its actually about? They are deatroying universities because they feel like the never made it to the cool kids table (cuz the people on the right are generally massive pieces of shit).
on the one hand it sucks that aggrieved shitlords are constantly whining about being persecuted when they aren’t, on the other hand, if you’re gonna pay the toll you may as well take the road
Doug "Feith was a Belfer Center visiting scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government....professor and distinguished practitioner in national security policy at Georgetown University, 2006 to 2008, and distinguished visiting fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University."
Conservative "Scholars" tend to employ poor reasoning, tend to evaluate out of emotion, and tend to seek attention more than they seek sound results. That's why they don't stick in academia. They just aren't good at honest thinking.
Exhibit A is Jonathan Truly at GW Law.
Another problem is that the goal of the lawless theofascist regime is to purge liberals from universities. So, they are simply lying to cover up the fact that they're doing the very same thing!
David Brooks is an seriously unserious pseudo-intellectual. He's a reactionary at best, and a charlatan at worst. He uses incorrect stats and data, and been called out for it year over year. He's not a voice anyone should be listening to!
i grew up in richmond, so fuck dave brat. also unfortunately went to uva and now live up the street from mason—both contributors to the rw shitbird econ racket.
i read that on The Atlantic. These are sooo stupids omg. They are like "oh Trump is too bad, we are the Goods Conservatives" lmao no Ronald, you're not good conservatives, you're the ones who preferred to turn a blind eye, or worse still, who were blind to fascism because you had an interest in it.
Meanwhile they engage in literal extraterritorial purging of … legal residents with tattoos? And Trump keeps circling back to wanting to send citizens to CECOT (fortunately we’re a system of robust checks and balances …)
It’s weird that in his piece, he reserves this grievance carve-out that they were removed from this walks of life, when in reality they removed themselves as part of this persecution complex they constantly carry.
He also said the left gave the elite special breaks at elite institutions. (You know, like Jared Kushner.)
And while he's telling us what should be done going forward, he doesn't mention that elite schools are busy drafting first gen students. At Harvard, that's 20% of the student body.
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Cannot even produce widgets that don't go all ouroboros on themselves and their families.
Hot and ready for debasement & the resultant degeneracy that follows when sunk in such fetid muck.
The red sweaty face of PapaJohn.
Willful ignorance all day, everyday.
This is them lying. They're fully aware that they're lying, but the propaganda of their lies is important to them.
end story
"Did I make a mistake in backing the people promising disastrous tariffs? No -- it's the fault of the people who didn't embrace the folks calling for disastrous tariffs."
Most academics aren’t even actual liberals. They’re just more liberal than MAGA.
It's like a chiropractor complaining about not being in the room with doctors for cancer discussions.
David Brooks is a sycophantic piece of shit.
Gatsby Hapsburg Twits!
It's why it's actually the "Antonin Scalia Law School".
Exhibit A is Jonathan Truly at GW Law.
Diversity is our strength, yall.
And while he's telling us what should be done going forward, he doesn't mention that elite schools are busy drafting first gen students. At Harvard, that's 20% of the student body.