If you spend decades demonizing universities, dismissing academic research, and attacking professors as threats to their country and/or civilization, you should expect to find that your views are not well represented in academia.
Their absence there is a mark of your success.
Their absence there is a mark of your success.
If you tell your fans and followers that academic work is worthless or harmful, they will not pursue it. If you make disdain for academics a core part of your message, people who believe your message will share that disdain. This should surprise nobody.
There's been no actual campaign to rid academia of "conservatives" -- unlike the very real and quite explicit campaigns to get rid of various putatively leftist academics (see Turning Point, for instance).
There has been a "conservative" campaign to devalue academia. It worked.
There has been a "conservative" campaign to devalue academia. It worked.
Good thread here
https://twitter.com/tlecaque/status/1379810303202955265?s=20
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