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"The arts are useless and will make you a poor stupid leftist... Do a trade" <----- type of statemet that has been doing the rounds on the far-right since at least 2014.
Not just the far right. Also was a staple in the new-atheist movement, their conviction was that science had solved all big dillemas already. Just a few minor details to work out. And they have been far more influential.
Yeah their offense about Atheism Plus really does seem to mirror later movements in gamergate and the far right in general.
Haven't looked at that before. Thanks.
^ this is probably the right answer here. Philosophy became the token academic discipline that is used to mock the idea of being educated. It had been going around for a while as a joke, but then became a more serious cultural wedge at some point, like around 2014 as you said. To me, it looked like it accelerated and became mainstream when Marco Rubio said "plumbers make more money than philosophers" in a Republican debate in 2015. (That is false, too: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiesola/2015/11/11/rubio-welders-philosophers/)
Foolish far-right! It makes you a poor, smart leftist!