Many academics I see online are leftist whereas many laypeople I see online are right wing.

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    16 days ago

    Depending on how you define “academic”

    There are certainly people who can get doctorates while still being right wing, those are the ones that get paid a lot of money to tell poor people to stop complaining about being poor.

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      16 days ago

      Like PhDs teaching other students. I have rarely seen conservative professors online, especially in humanities.

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        15 days ago

        Thats fairly rare.

        Even with tenure, professors just dont make that much money generally.

        Conservatives arent actually interested in learning, or in science for its own sake.

        Without the grift, why would conservatives bother