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Comment by beeflet

12 hours ago

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Have you ever wondered why the most educated and scholarly people in the country are left leaning?

I suppose you think they were indoctrinated. But finding and teaching the truth is essentially their job. Learning how to evaluate sources and approach research logically is like academia 101.

So doesn’t it seem strange that so few of them ever manage to see that they’re being indoctrinated?

Or do you think a person’s political beliefs are assigned at birth and lefties just like academia for some reason?

Are you suggesting that academia and all of the other actual places people who learn and know stuff for a living being full of leftists is some conspiracy against you and the right wing?

Touch grass, my dude. These are the thoughts of someone who spends too much time on X.

  • I don't use X or Grok.

    The fact that the elite and knowledge workers in this country are generally more left-leaning is pretty evident. The right wingers in these ranks make up a distinctive subgroup. These are the thoughts of pretty much everyone everywhere in the country and this becomes apparent if you ask randoms on the street, or you have attended college lectures, or have used a dictionary, or have read wikipedia talk pages, or have compared news sources.

    Being a welder or a farmer or a carpenter requires "learning and knowing stuff". These right-wing associated jobs just don't produce knowledge for other people as an end product. That is what makes knowledge work an elite position; not everyone has the luxury of doing knowledge work.

    I take issue with your implication that we should all bow down to knowledge workers because they know better. The knowledge workers are the issue here. They are the subject of discussion. This is like when the police investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

    If we found that the population of professional athletes became dominated by a certain cultural ingroup, and eventually we failed to bring home gold medals at the olympics, we might be correct to question the state of our meritocracy wrt athleticism. Regardless of what people who "improve and use their bodies for a living" think.

    The US is losing intellectually and technologically to countries like China. I call into question the general legitimacy of our academic and journalistic institutions.

    • You know the trades are union, i.e., left wing?

      If you went to my hometown and asked working class men who work with their hands whether they support the conservatives, they'd laugh in your face.

      Have you heard of the AFL-CIO?

    • > The US is losing intellectually and technologically to countries like China. I call into question the general legitimacy of our academic and journalistic institutions.

      China has tons of green energy, high speed rail and frequently extols the virtues of socialism.

    • hn is left leaning too

      even pg tries to shit on elon on x time to time

      funniest bit was garry tan hinting that yc x and y seasons has to be renamed because pg doesnt like it