I heard recently that 90% of law school professors identify as left-wing. This total lack of philosophical diversity is, and will have, great implications for our Republic.
Harvard and many other schools are indeed cesspools - stagnant ideological ponds where the leftism becomes more and more concentrated.
“Identify as liberal”? So they are really conservatives cross dressing as liberals...just damn! I’m too old and white for this $hit!!!!
The tyranny of liberal identity politics:
* they define and pigeonhole everyone by race, language, gender
* they say you are X, and that group has a place on the victim hierarchy
* that group officially believe Y and Z
* express an official truth, and you are criticized, name called and socially mobbed until you repent
* if you don’t still agree with the belief litmus test, you are outside the official hierarchy and get untouchable status; see the vicious attacks by feminists on accomplished conservative women and blacks like Clarence Thomas
So now they say you are your identity, and to have any status tied to that identity, you have to follow this ideology, too.
That creates cultural tribalism where social pressure of each faction seeking to maintain its cohesiveness and political strength/status enforces ideological conformity.