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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Then you're in fucking fantasyland. I'm not going to dignify this comment, as its delusional.
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Name one. What's an example of a significant cultural institution under the control of the hard left?
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Do you know anyone in the media? In academia?
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Yes and yes. But you are moving the goalposts -- we were talking about who is running things, not what some employees think.
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In most of the influential think tanks?
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Is there even such a thing on the left?
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How do you think we wound up with absurd cultural fixations on things like gender theory, "intersectionality," wokeness, etc. All this bullshit starts among hard left screwballs in cultural and academic institutions, migrates outward into govt and society more broadly, gets picked up by MAGA nuts, and gets turned into cultural wedge issues. Tango of fucking idiots, started by hard heft nuts who think about dipshit concepts such as one's sex being an entirely social construction.
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The existence and discussion of ideas with which you disagree is not evidence that the country's institutions are under the control of the hard left.
We wound up with discussions about gender and race because of the lived experiences of many, many people. The term woke comes out of black culture, not the academy. At the risk of stating the obvious, many people think American culture and society tend to systematically disadvantage people who are not white men. These views get discussed because they are material to ordinary people's lives, not because a cabal of leftists highjacked some institutions. I think the same is true of gender issues. I know many people, family and friends, whose children identify as something other than their gender at birth. These children haven't been reading academic papers on intersectionality. The causal relationship runs the other way: Academics are trying to understand things that are happening in the world.
But none of this has anything to do with the idea that the hard left has taken over the country's institutions.
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How else but via hard-left lunatic thinking do we get an academe that reacts to the murder of Israelis with the response that it is their own fault?
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There is not a single educational institution in this country of which I am aware where the dominant view is that October 7 was Israeli's fault, and the number of people who say such things is quite small, but they receive attention out of proportion to their number because agitating people is good for engagement, which makes money for media companies and platforms.
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My bad. It's govt worker donations to Ds.
"Federal employees donated at least $4.2 million to the major candidates for presidents in 2024, with nearly 84% of that total going to Vice President Kamala Harris."
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/20...harris/400760/
Now, go ahead and write, as you will, "She's not hard left. You said hard left." Okay. That's fair. She wasn't. But now ask yourself, "Is it normal to have 84% of donations going to one party?" And now add to that the well-known fact that over 90% of college professors today are on the left (liberal and progressive).
That's not skewed? Get fucking real.
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I agree with you that federal workers and college professors tend to support Democrats. With what Trump and Musk are trying to do to both of them, are you surprised? But that's a different subject from whether the hard left (as opposed to Democrats generally) controls major institutions.
