I once entered a “safe spaces” Discord server with literal flowers and stuff. It looked very innocent and welcoming and it was just for gaming. Turns out, they were making fun of their members on it, fake-crying to mock a depressed user, and kept telling the users to “let them see their cuts”. It was so disturbing. These were literal 18-20 year olds, too, and I was like 13.
They come from the “average man”, intellectually cowardly and living by inertia, and whose entire ideology was most likely fed to them by mass media and propaganda, IME. They’ve never thought independently about anything deep, and if they did at some point it brought nothing but frustration and further confusion to their lives so they’re triggered by anyone trying to have a thoughtful exploration as it might bring the house of cards that is their worldview down. As such, their gut reaction is to “shut it all down”, using whatever poor argument they have at hand to do so (because if they were wise enough to be honest about their reasons for being against this potentially productive convo, they wouldn’t react this way in the first place). 🤷
I don’t know that I would personally make so many specific conclusions or necessarily group individuals together like that, but… as individual points I’ve no doubt that they do accurately describe various types of thinking and character.
I would also tend to think that if that whole package of characteristics does indeed describe lots of people in academia who happened to want to teach, then they’d either have to work to become better human beings, or get sort of ‘locked-in’ to being shitty, unpopular professors. Which could of course greatly impact their career upsides. *shrug*