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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
In university they'll present extremely biased POV as neutral but if you make a counter argument they'll say you're the biased one lol. It depends but some teachers are legit against critical thinking. Wasnt always easy to speak up in this environment.
I think Its about social status, more educated circles tend to put more emphasis on intellectual postering as a mean of socialisation. That being said there are many correlating factors as to why academia tend to be left wing.
gpt
Intellectuals and academics have always been the biggest supporters of socialism. They view themselves as the smartest in society and believe that they should be in charge. They view businessmen as intellectually beneath them, thus they are jealous that businessmen have so much more power than them. They justify this discrepancy to themselves by saying that the businessman can only get so much wealth by exploiting his workers. If only capitalism were replaced, then they, the smartest people, would be in charge. (The wokeness so prevalent among them is an outgrowth of critical theory, a core tenet of Marxism.)

Of course, intellectuals never end up in charge after communist revolutions. The workers that they empowered to overthrow the capitalists view the academics as unproductive airheads. You don’t get to write slam poetry after the revolution, you get sent to the gulags.