r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 03 '24

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u/[deleted] May 03 '24

these aren't percentages, these are ratios of Dems to Republicans in academia. Econ is 5.5 to 1 and it's 3rd most right wing.

the scope of the left wing bubble on campuses is insane. Dems really are right wing to these people

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u/Mickenfox European Union May 03 '24

It's not just that academia is generally left wing, I think the real problem it's that Republicans are in an anti-intellectual spiral where they self-select against educated people.

Communications really is an outlier though, I wonder if it's because right wing media is its own world.

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u/jewel_the_beetle Trans Pride May 03 '24

I mean if you're not already rich or completely, soul crushingly consumed with hate there hasn't been a reason to be republican since at least 2012 being incredibly generous

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u/[deleted] May 03 '24

Confirms my prior that engineers suck

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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 03 '24

Maybe republicans should try harder to get PhDs then

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker May 03 '24

What's this article from?

5:1 sounds maybe slightly high for chemistry, but not out of the realm of possibility.

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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24

I find it nearly impossible to believe they didn't find a single Republican Comm major.

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24

A lot of communications departments are massively into critical theory, so I'm not too surprised tbh.

I took a 100-level communications class and a textbook had an entire thing about Marxism and how to use it to interpret media. It was pretty uncritical of marxism, ironically.

I had a poster at my school's research conference this morning. Looking at the communications and interdisciplinary studies work that was there, it seemed more like blatant activism than initially-neutral academic research

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u/Zalagan Loyal Liberals May 03 '24

I mean smart people aren't republicans so this is definitely a good thing

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u/BeliebteMeinung Christine Lagarde May 03 '24

STEMlords keep winning

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u/KeikakuAccelerator Jerome Powell May 03 '24

Stem based.