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You seriously underestimate how many fascist supporters there are in STEM in the US (and Europe for that matter). Contrary to what you might assume from the public focus on DEI from big tech companies, there's a vast underbelly of reactionaries. Not to mention very influential people like Peter Thiel, who is openly hostile to the concept of democracy.

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Also the sad fact is that STEM folks tend to be poor at humanities, so they easily fall prey to right wing fringe theories, they can't detect bs.

They also happen to often fall into the exact demographics right wing fringe theories cater to. Men in tech who grew up on a diet of nerd culture with sexist tropes will find it easier to believe evopsych nonsense that "women are just not biologically capable of achieving greatness in tech", white and Asian guys will find it easier to believe that they just lucked into being racially predisposed to being smarter. Worse, the discrimination perpetuated by these ideas may even be misinterpreted as evidence (because after all, they don't think sociology is a field that has any merit).

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