So many of their “icons” basically boil down to “I go to colleges and troll people” (to the point of 30 year old losers like Ben shapiro still hanging out at and constantly talking about college campuses).
It feels like higher education is less and less relevant to material reality, it just seems such a bizarre area for them to focus so much propagandistic effort towards.
All good takes in here. Mine is that because education is the only real power structure the left control. Not in that we control the apparatus but physical reality does, and reality is our greatest ally. Universities even as profit mills are still a doorway to understanding reality through any sort of objective analysis.
Disenfranchising the educated is the only method to stop them becoming detractors of the capitalist state, and even then ehhhhh they still do. I've got a friend who's a biologists who's incredibly intelligent but "hates politics" as they put it and defaults to being a lib... but with their takes on society being biological, evolutionary, anthropological ect, they're always very close to supporting communism...because obviously profit killing everything on the planet is not a good evolutionary outcome.