Academics as Traitors: How Social Science Elites Poison Society, By James Reed
Walk into any university's social science department, and you'll find a cesspool of self-congratulatory elites who've turned their backs on the very societies that pay their salaries. These academics, cloaked in degrees and dripping with hubris, aren't just misguided, they're traitors! Their ideas, churned out in echo chambers of the humanities and social sciences, aren't merely wrong; they're lethal, eroding the cultural, moral, and national foundations that hold civilisations together. While STEM fields churn out vaccines and bridges, the social sciences peddle ideologies that breed division, weakness, and collapse, all while sneering at the "unqualified" masses who dare question their dogma.
Academics in sociology, anthropology, and political science, often see themselves as citizens of a borderless, cosmopolitan elite, not as members of the nations that fund their cushy tenures. Public taxes, drawn from farmers, truckers, and small-business owners, bankroll their salaries, yet they champion globalist policies that hollow out local communities. Take the push for open borders, a darling of social science dogma. Professors like those at Oxford's Centre for Migration, Policy and Society, advocate for unrestricted migration, framing it as a moral imperative, while ignoring the strain on public services, NHS waiting times up 30% since 2015, or the cultural fragmentation in towns like Rotherham. Their loyalty isn't to Britain, America, or Australia; it's to a rootless ideology that elevates their status among global peers.
This betrayal isn't abstract. Social scientists' obsession with "diversity" and "equity" has fuelled policies that undermine merit and cohesion. Critical race theory, born in university lecture halls, paints Western societies as irredeemably oppressive, justifying quotas and reparations that pit groups against each other. In the U.S., affirmative action policies, rooted in academic theories, have led to mismatched college admissions, with dropout rates for underrepresented groups hitting 40% at elite institutions, per 2023 data from the National Center for Education Statistics. In the UK, decolonisation curricula, pushed by academics at SOAS and Cambridge, demonise national history, fostering resentment rather than unity. These ideas don't strengthen societies; they fracture them, leaving nations weaker and more divided.
The nastiness of academics stems from a toxic blend of hubris and snobbery, a belief that their credentials make them infallible. In archaeology, for instance, the Clovis-first model of Americas' settlement was defended with venom for decades, dismissing amateur discoveries of pre-Clovis sites like Monte Verde in Chile, later validated in the 1990s. Social scientists are worse. They cling to grand theories, like postmodernism or intersectionality, that crumble under scrutiny but are enforced with cult-like zeal. Dissenters, whether uncredentialed hobbyists or skeptical colleagues, face ostracism, not argument. A 2021 survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, found 66% of U.S. academics felt pressure to avoid controversial topics, proving the academy's intolerance for free thought.
This hubris produces lethal ideas. Social scientists' embrace of "defund the police" in 2020, rooted in academic theories of systemic racism, led to a 40% spike in urban homicides in U.S. cities like Chicago by 2022, per FBI data. Their advocacy for gender ideology, pushing fluid identities and pronoun mandates, has confused a generation, with 20% of UK teens identifying as non-binary or transgender in 2024, according to YouGov, fuelling mental health crises and family breakdowns. These aren't innocent errors; they're reckless experiments on society's fabric, conducted by elites who face no consequences when their theories fail.
Academia's nastiness is structural, rooted in its history as a training ground for priests and rulers. Today's social scientists act like high priests of a globalist religion, where ideological purity is loyalty and dissent is heresy. Universities, once centers of statecraft, now police thought with an iron fist. The 2023 cancellation of a King's College London professor for questioning climate activism shows how far this goes, her sin wasn't bad data but challenging the orthodoxy. This quasi-religious fervour explains why social science departments are battlegrounds, not forums. Disagree with the prevailing narrative on race, gender, or migration, and you're not debated, you're excommunicated.
The consequences are dire. Social scientists' push for "equity" over equality has birthed policies like Canada's 2022 hiring mandates, requiring universities to prioritise "underrepresented" groups, sidelining merit. The result? A brain drain, with 15% of Canadian STEM researchers leaving for the U.S. by 2024, per Statistics Canada. Their globalist vision, valuing international NGOs over national interests, undermines the very taxpayers who fund them. When academics champion policies like net-zero without grappling with energy costs, up 25% in the UK since 2021, they betray the working-class communities they claim to serve.
Unlike STEM, where empirical rigour limits ideological drift, social sciences are a playground for untested theories that wreak havoc. Postmodernism, which denies objective truth, has justified censorship and "truth commissions" in universities, stifling debate. Intersectionality, framing society as a hierarchy of oppression, fuels tribalism, with 60% of Americans saying race relations worsened since 2020, per Gallup. These ideas don't just fail, they kill. They erode trust, destabilise institutions, and sow chaos, leaving societies vulnerable to collapse, much like Rome's intellectual elites who fiddled while the empire burned.
The irony? Academics' "expertise" is often wrong. Their grand theories, Marxism, Freudianism, feminism, and now critical race theory, collapse within a generation. The 1970s population bomb hysteria, pushed by academics like Paul Ehrlich, predicted global starvation by 2000, yet food production outpaced population growth, per FAO data. Today's social scientists repeat this error, preaching climate doom or social justice dogma while ignoring real-world fallout. Their arrogance blinds them, and their snobbery silences critics, ensuring society pays the price.
The solution isn't reform, it's revolution. Societies must stop venerating academics as oracles. Defund social science departments that peddle divisive ideologies, redirecting funds to STEM or vocational training that builds, not destroys. Demand accountability: tie university funding to measurable societal benefits, not publication counts. Encourage amateur thinkers, farmers, coders, small-business owners, Alor.org bloggers(!) — who often see clearer than tenured professors. Above all, reject the globalist elite's disdain for national loyalty. Academics who betray their societies, promoting lethal ideas while living off public taxes, deserve not respect but contempt. Until we dismantle this ivory tower of hubris, the nastiness, and the damage, will only grow.
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