This is easy to believe because it’s part of a larger pattern. Leftists take over institutions to push their agenda.
The College Fix reports:
‘Feminist Collective’ took over political science journal, prioritized DEI: reportAcademic papers by women and racial minorities were prioritized for publication by the American Political Science Review, according to a new report from the Goldwater Institute.The policy is just one of the results of a takeover by the self-described “Feminist Collective” at the publication, run by the American Political Science Association and published by Cambridge University Press.The all-female editorial group also shifted the journal’s focus to identity politics and away from topics such as the U.S. Constitution, the study from the Goldwater Institute concluded. The group lost power in 2024, however it may have approved some articles that were published into 2025, which covers the most recent set of issues. Goldwater’s report covered articles published between 2020 and 2025.The policy change followed a 2020 statement by the editors that called on political journals “to actively dismantle the institutionalized racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and settler colonialism that continue to characterize and structure it.”The organization fulfilled this mission over the next five years, as the Goldwater Institute found that 132 of the publication’s 549 articles focused on “race, gender, oppression, and related topics,” while only three articles used the words “constitution” or “constitutional” in their abstracts.The author of the report called the actions “a legal, bloodless takeover” during a phone interview with The College Fix.Timothy Minella said the editors “instituted a very radical agenda,” that “points to a larger issue” of “overall left bias in academia … not limited to political science and not limited to this particular journal.”“This clearly is not cutting-edge, deep analysis of politics,” Minella said, “this is stuff that you would expect to come out of a left-wing think tank, but it’s coming out of an organization [calling] itself, political sciences’ premier, scholarly, research journal.”The Goldwater Institute pointed out many of the editors come from public universities, which means taxpayers were subsidizing this research.The articles show the need for “guardrails” that determine “what we’re paying public university faculty members to do when it comes to research,” and “hold [faculty members] accountable for having some sort of legitimate research.”
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