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WTAF? Academia is super conservative by any meaningful definition of conservatism. It’s not reactionary or Conservative (TM) if by that you mean the science-denying brand of Republicanism, but that’s tautological. Most profs are very happy with the traditional order that benefits them.

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Of course, part of the issue is the absolutely braindead juxtaposition of conservative and liberal in the US which is the result of a right wing redefinition of the word liberal and invention of libertarianism as (oxy)moronic right wing caricature of liberalism.

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