Not wanting to get too meta, but my experience is also that many academics think academics are all left wing along with various correlated
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liberal and left wing views, but in my lived experience academics have very broad ranging views from extreme right to extreme left.
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Differs per country as well. From the Dutch perspective, most American left-wing liberal democrats are center to center-right.
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Oh, indeed. But my comment was meant to imply that people with basically the most right wing views you can imagine exist within science.
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E.g., I know scientists, not few at all, who think colonialism was great, deny genocide happened, and think ethnonationalism is a good idea.
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I know scientists, again not a few, who believe in anarcho-capitalism, who believe in white supremacy, who think GMOs cause cancer, etc.
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In fact, I probably know as many with questionable and extreme right wing views in certain areas than I do ones without these views.
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It's not that I'm claiming that these are ppl who would self-define as "right wing" but descriptively their views fall under that heading.
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INB4: GMOs cause cancer is a bad left-wing view. It's actually both where I'm from, but yes, in the West it correlated with hippie BS.
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[Hippies are traditionalist & there's a lot of strange rhetoric in their circles — no point going into it here, but they are conservative.]
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