What I'd add to Jon's thread is that the last decade has seen an intensification of the use of populist frames to denigrate people working in higher education which is having real policy effects. Perfectly easy to make your criticism of higher ed without using that framing.
https://twitter.com/jonmladd/status/1387482553968386048
Not saying Carville wants to destroy universities - he works at two of them! But saying things like "people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people" furthers a narrative that is being used to attack univerities.
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1371597117626716163?s=20
I've worked in higher ed for 20 years and there has never been a more hostile period. If you work in a public university in a red state there are real efforts to censor speech *using the framing Carville articulated.* This stuff matters. medium.com/arc-digital/th…
You want to make fair criticism of higher ed? Go ahead. That is the majority of academic twitter! You want to echo the lazy tropes of those who see the university as their enemy, expect some pushback.
Yeah: one might even suggest that that the full policy consequences of moral panics about wokeness or cancel culture in elite private spaces like Oberlin or Harvard are visited upon public higher ed in red state institutions
https://twitter.com/SteveBHolt/status/1387584052769734662?s=20
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