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This content critiques left-wing academics, arguing they are detached from the people they claim to represent, using inaccessible language and abstract theories instead of offering practical solutions to societal problems.
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Hello and welcome to this episode of
Frankie's Cultural Observations. Today
we're going to be analyzing left-wing academics.
academics.
Left-wing academics don't need the gym.
They build their strength by pulling the
ladder up on poor people. The same
people who will never be invited to
their think tank about wealth
redistribution. Because talking about
income inequality means they don't have
to take a pay cut. So, they speak up and
talk down from their podium-shaped
soapbox to an audience of people who
already agree with them and just came
for the free champagne reception and
smoked salmon caviar on little tiny
savory biscuits.
The university industrial complex
absorbs all forms of radicalism and
makes it civilized, turning dissent into
a consumer choice, protest into product,
and the yellow jacket into a shiny pink
bow. Speaking truth to power in double
space times new roman means they can
critique the very system that they
actively benefit from. Doing the work
consists of publishing a paper behind
the payw wall that no one outside their
university can read using language no
one outside their university can
understand about people who will never
set foot inside one. But they have used
unpaid student labor to conduct research
about worker exploitation and that
somehow got ethical approval.
Congratulations. Your oppression now has
inclusion criteria.
When academics got recruited, they got
given a lanyard and a dictionary of
liberation with about 10 to 15 buzzwords
that are so vague they could literally
mean anything. But at least they can
wear their doctorate martins to the
lecture hall and drink free coffee and
conferences they had to pay to speak at
and attend diversity workshops where
white people talk about
intersectionality like they understand
it firsthand. They say borders are
man-made and we need more third spaces,
but they can't break free from their
echo chamber. And with no plan to reach
people who aren't already in the fold,
their defense strategy is to look down
their nose at idiots who don't have a
college degree, so they must be stupid.
Because moral superiority is the back
door for class hatred, a smug
satisfaction in not having an answer for
the people you're meant to be helping.
So for academics, the revolution will be
sterilized and peer-reviewed in obscure
journal articles that you don't have
access to.
Left-wing academics are in battle, a
posturing war or an arms race to become
more and more unreadable, as if true
wisdom stems from reading and writing in
ways that only people with a doctorate
can understand. This peer-to-peer
pressure makes them so unrelatable and
esoteric that they become structurally
ineffective, so deep in theory they
forgot to keep their boots on the
ground. The rise of the far right is
largely unexamined in left-wing
academia. They think it's beneath their
pay grade and beyond analysis. But when
marginalized communities are told they
should care about politics, but all they
get is morality without material
solutions or a plan to improve their
life in simple English, you create the
very conditions for fascism to flourish.
The academic left stopped knocking on
doors and handing out flyers, retreating
from the street to find their seat in a
seminar. While the right were
fear-mongering and turning scared people
against foreigners, the academy were
workshopping titles for a conference
about ontologies of revolution. Why is
there a baby there?
Dear academics, this isn't a question.
It's more of a comment. When you try to
build a fairer society, but just use
language that excludes people, you
silently reproduce the power structures
you claim to stand against. Using words
like accessibility, inclusivity, and
empowerment, but never mentioning who
grants access, who gets included, and
where the power comes from means you
just preach inequality and signal
elitism. Because deep down you don't
want to change the world. You just want
to theorize its decline and get cited
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