People are making too much hay about BlackRock etc.
The issue here is, as always, the colleges. It's cool to be liberal, pro-LGBTQMAP+, etc. You are therefore rewarded for following these orthodoxies. It's that simple. Basic reinforcement.
If there was a reward structure set up for being Super Straight, LGBTQ+ crap would be relegated to the closet where it belongs within two generations.
Not even the colleges, because if you go into economics field you're naturally inclined to become neoliberal (or a grifter) and STEM fields like engineering remain conservative, while also maintaining massive male-to-female workforce ratios. The only outlier is programming, I think it's the only STEM field that has a reputation of being intensely liberal or marxist and even that still deals with a reputation of being a male dominated field. I genuinely think there are more trans women in programming than cis ones.
Liberalism does indeed dominate humanitarian, medical and art fields though, which includes journalism, philosophy, writing... basically every field that has anything to do with communicating with the public and naturally they'll present their points as truthful by using the prestige of their academic background.
The reality is that academia has various different competing orthodoxies. Remember Javier Miles and how every neolib were slobbering over him coming into power? Well he was an economics professor for years before becoming president. And speaking from my experience Marxist and Liberal professors do not get along well at all, because liberal ones are heavily pro-multiculturalism while marxists are culturally color blind, not being able to tell a difference betwen islam and hinduism, because ALL cultural struggles are class struggles to them, which ocassionally leads to them saying even more bigoted things than people on the far-right. This had led to a few studies in my university developing a notorious reputation of having professors that do not like each other, making the grading process very inconsistent.
Marxists, Neoliberals, Liberals, Conservatives, etc. they all are competing on scrounging up the most young people to their cause to vote and protest in the name of their agenda. Sounds conspiratorial, but that's just how democracy works. Sorry for getting heavily political, but I figured that this was an important thing to establish, so people here don't end up following red herrings.
