Opinion: The long and winding path to leftist language permeating society

[SLAG-91 1,760]

The thread title is more of a conclusion, and the article below is a long one.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/takeover-russell-jacoby

The author of the article is a professor emeritus in the history department at UCLA.

He acknowledges the composition of university faculties becoming much more left-leaning from the 60s onward, because that was a way to make a living, and with the boom in college growth for about 25-30 years, they pretty much stayed on campus, basically serving as their own farm system.

Cut to the 90s-00s, and the positions for placing students in these left-leaning disciplines drying up (author mentions not being able to place students), so there was no faculty position for them to go to...hence, they filter into society and bring their turgid language with them.

Anyway, the article outlines the progression ("progress" being like slipping into quicksand, imo) pretty well, I think.

[icanthearyou 4,468]

They aint no such thing as no ideological intellectual.

Ideological idiot writes about his contempt for ideological idiots.

[homersapien 12,658]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_(magazine)

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[AUDub 12,272]

9 hours ago, SLAG-91 said:

The thread title is more of a conclusion, and the article below is a long one.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/takeover-russell-jacoby

The author of the article is a professor emeritus in the history department at UCLA.

He acknowledges the composition of university faculties becoming much more left-leaning from the 60s onward, because that was a way to make a living, and with the boom in college growth for about 25-30 years, they pretty much stayed on campus, basically serving as their own farm system.

Cut to the 90s-00s, and the positions for placing students in these left-leaning disciplines drying up (author mentions not being able to place students), so there was no faculty position for them to go to...hence, they filter into society and bring their turgid language with them.

Anyway, the article outlines the progression ("progress" being like slipping into quicksand, imo) pretty well, I think.

What an interesting article. 

Oh wait that's not the word I'm looking for.  

Hmm...

Insipid!  There it is. 

[SLAG-91 1,760]

34 minutes ago, AUDub said:

What an interesting article. 

Oh wait that's not the word I'm looking for.  

Hmm...

Insipid!  There it is. 

The Triple Crown of cogent and insightful responses is now complete.

Go ahead and lock it, sheriff.

[PUB78 1,469]

[icanthearyou 4,468]

7 hours ago, PUB78 said:

The ultimate neo liberal.  The man primarily responsible for extreme deficit spending, handing over the government to the capital class, fueling inequality.

A decent man who was manipulated by power he naively believed in.

Pretty stupid, pretty ironic.

[SaltyTiger 8,888]

On 12/29/2022 at 6:40 PM, SLAG-91 said:

The Triple Crown of cogent and insightful responses is now complete.

Go ahead and lock it, sheriff.

Yep, waiting on Coffee for the grand slam.

Self-righteous professors have spawned self-righteous students and unleashed them into the public square

 

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