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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
He's talking about the current zeitgeist, the people at the forefront in the world today. To be blunt, the work in these areas has become an insular self-reinforcing ideological circle jerk. There's really not a lot of critical analysis going on in those disciplines at this point; in fact a significant proportion of people who participate in them are skeptical of the practice of critical analysis ab initio. The scientific method holds no sway, narratives are what are important.
The results are apparent. Even though I think the episodes of identitarian college campus insanity that Tucker Carlson and company are so fond of ranting about don't really reflect what it's like to be a student at these schools day to day, there are far too many such incidents. And if you look at the students, faculty and adminsitrators who are typically responsible for these incidents, they don't come from the biology or engineering faculties.
And while there might have been some important thinkers in these areas at some point, there don't seem to be any now. Who are the identitarians selling out auditoriums around the developed world, drawing crowds of people to hear them come and talk about their views on these topics? They do not seem to exist. To the extent they have any following - people like Reza Aslan or Ezra Klein, for example - they don't actually defend their views or engage in substantive criticism. They just smear people who disagree with them.
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The crazy part is that Tucker Carlson is the only one talking about it. Bret & Eric Weinstein have stated in numerous interviews how much they loathe Tucker Carlson but he was the only mainstream media personality to have them on.