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re: Why most academics lean left
Posted on 12/10/18 at 10:24 am to Robin Masters
Posted on 12/10/18 at 10:24 am to Robin Masters
This leaves out an important additional reason: the tenure structure.
You get tenure by publishing. Publishing especially in the "soft" arts that tend to run the most rampant with leftists (English, sociology, cultural studies, etc) are all about criticism. Feminist critique, Marxist critique, post-colonial critique, etc. You don't get published for saying how great things are. You get published for attacking institutions. These academics are professional critics.
And then they get tenure which is a whole other conversation.
You get tenure by publishing. Publishing especially in the "soft" arts that tend to run the most rampant with leftists (English, sociology, cultural studies, etc) are all about criticism. Feminist critique, Marxist critique, post-colonial critique, etc. You don't get published for saying how great things are. You get published for attacking institutions. These academics are professional critics.
And then they get tenure which is a whole other conversation.
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Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:00 am to BigJim
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This leaves out an important additional reason: the tenure structur
This is a big one that hasn't been mentioned yet. Tenure structure bigly reinforces prevailing political and social views in the academy. It is perhaps not the reason why the academy leans left in general, but it is the most important reason why it went from a 70/30 or 60/40 split a generation or two ago to 95/5 or whatever it is today.
Someone else mentioned the post-modern creep that has touched just about every field outside the hard sciences and engineering. That's also a big one.
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