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OPINION: Because they adore figures like Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, as well as critical theory and Marxism — all things that’ve never actually worked
This past week, MS NOW host Chris Hayes tweeted out the following:
“The most left wing people in America are people with post graduate degrees who are financially strapped and the most right wing are people without 4 year college degrees who are rich.”
The reactions were (rightly) predictable:
So people who believe they are owed the world because of their fancy degrees are miserable and those built themselves up from nothing are bullish on life.
— Ryan – millennial family guy (@patriotic_giant) July 21, 2026
Sounds about right
So the PhD in Gender Studies isn’t the cash cow degree it was sold to be? Shocker!
— Idaho Dreaming (@IdExploring) July 21, 2026
There is a lesson. One group expects nothing from society and works hard daily, and the other group sits around reading other people’s books and expects to be told how smart they are and rewarded with money.
— Will (@Will63946606) July 21, 2026
Hayes’ tweet, and the reactions to it, reminded me of a journal article I saw earlier in the month — “A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Black School Leadership in the Canadian Prairies,” published in a “special issue” of Critical Approaches to Educational Leadership: Emerging Trends and New Futurities.
Its abstract reads in part:
This article situates school leadership in the Canadian Prairies within a socio-spatial context and ongoing impact of coloniality. It draws on Black geographies to position Black school leaders as occupying diasporic spaces in white settler contexts of the Prairies, exploring how spatial relations are constituted in contemporary social arrangements characterized by longstanding institutional oppression.
The author, University of Regina Education Professor Donna Swapp — whose “research frameworks” include (surprise) “critical theory; postcolonial theory; decolonizing theories of education; anti-racism & anti-oppressive frameworks” — refers to all the above as a “spatial gaze.”
If Swapp didn’t go into academia and a field which incestuously cites like-minded peers in journals and articles, what else would she do?
Over at Vermont’s Champlain College (cost of attendance almost $73,500 per year), Professor David Tomasi went through an ordeal that unfortunately isn’t atypical these days.
Tomasi had given an assignment, pre-approved by his dean “other appropriate college institutions,” titled “Thinking Outside the Box.”
As noted by Suzannah Alexander at the Heterodox STEM Substack, some of the videos viewed by students featured “a Black former DEI director,” “a Senegalese entrepreneur,” “a gay British activist,” and “an Afro-Caribbean cleric.”
Students were asked to consider three things:
- “How do you decide whether a piece of information is reliable and valid?”
- “What ways are you willing to ‘think outside the box’ to understand and relate to (not necessarily justify) opinions which might be different from your own?”
- “Can you think of strategies we can all use to ‘bridge the differences,’ develop love and empathy, and a civil, nurturing, and mutual understanding of a variety of perspectives?”
The assignment led to Tomasi being subjected to a bias investigation.
A student with whom Tomasi already had issues — the student challenged him about turning things in on time and using proper grammar, the latter “a remnant of a colonialist-bigoted framework” — reportedly recruited peers to object and “declare an unwillingness to find common ground with anyone who questions transgender identity.”
Naturally, the student claimed the assignment “caused upset feelings,” made them “feel unsafe,” and said “the existence of transgender and nonbinary people is proven by the student’s own existence.”
After the investigation proved “inconclusive,” some of the aggrieved students went to social media to rip Tomasi, among other things calling for him to fired, demanding the revocation of his license, stating he “didn’t deserve to breathe,” and even bringing his wife into the mix.
The college even told him some things on his Linkedin page “have caused real hurt and concern.”
Tomasi ended up filing his own complaint. Champlain’s response? If he feared for his safety on campus he should teach virtually.
Meanwhile, students involved in the anti-Tomasi campaign bragged on social media about getting “a slap on the wrist.”
Although he hasn’t officially resigned or been terminated, Tomasi said that based on a discussion with an assistant dean “he doesn’t expect to teach there in the fall.”
Now consider Hayes’ tweet again. It literally is perfect … even though he — still — doesn’t realize it.
Would you consider hiring someone who views everything through the lens of “oppression”? Who uses polysyllabic word salads to make themselves sound bright? Who complains about “upset feelings” because she’s expected to arrive on time (among other things)?
No wonder such dullards are enamored with figures like Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, critical theory, and Marxism. They’re charlatans and scams.
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