I remember having a "select your own topic" research paper in college. It just had to be a controversial position on a piece of literature. I wrote a 15 or so page paper about how Lord of the Rings is racist. I recieved high marks, but I thought that it was more of a mental exercise that you could claim and twist almost anything to reach a desired outcome. Never once did I actually expect people to take that kind of stuff seriously.

I've been through college before (and hopefully starting again here soon), but I must've missed all this during my inital time. I'm interested to see how things may have changed at my alma mater. I have to assume that these issues come up more often in the social sciences/humanities. My first degree was a business degree and there was quite a bit to learn so we didn't have time for that sort of thinking.

As someone who is very left-of-center, has a love of science, and is highly critical of capitalism, the so-called "Academic Left" isnt going to be retreating any time soon, but GG shouldn't focus on dismantling that. Rebuffing them from appropriating gaming is enough. As for that side as a whole, as with any group that enforces ideological purity, it is doomed to collapse. Any slight deviation from the groupthink is punished harshly and they'll cull their own into insignificance.