lmao left credentialism is so funny
April 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
lmao left credentialism is so funny
“Security clearances are just DC credentialism” is an instant classic
Idk man I feel like if you have sex with a minor you shouldn’t be given a security clearance
November 15, 2024 at 3:50 PM
“Security clearances are just DC credentialism” is an instant classic
The conservative elites hate modern universities but love credentialism
October 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The conservative elites hate modern universities but love credentialism
Reducing higher education to pure credentialism.
August 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Reducing higher education to pure credentialism.
The combined credentialism and anti-credentialism at work here is striking: any kind of medical qualifications are taken to license cis people to speak over trans people - EXCEPT for expertise in the field.
Because the Cass boosters are provably wrong in a scientific sense, anyone who has taken a serious look at the epidemiology claims, the policy and ethics claims can see it's wrong.
But it's hard to believe SO MANY boosters, including ppl with medical qualifications would be keep up kayfabe re Cass
But it's hard to believe SO MANY boosters, including ppl with medical qualifications would be keep up kayfabe re Cass
February 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The combined credentialism and anti-credentialism at work here is striking: any kind of medical qualifications are taken to license cis people to speak over trans people - EXCEPT for expertise in the field.
Also credentialism and post-grad alumni cliques
September 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Also credentialism and post-grad alumni cliques
I wouldn't claim to tell you how a newsroom works. It's not credentialism, it's experience
August 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
I wouldn't claim to tell you how a newsroom works. It's not credentialism, it's experience
*whispers*
Credentialism for the point of credentialism is 1) incredibly classist; 2) harmful to progressivism's fundamental goals (that being broader equality)
Credentialism for the point of credentialism is 1) incredibly classist; 2) harmful to progressivism's fundamental goals (that being broader equality)
The dumbing down begins with a Poilievre government
April 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
*whispers*
Credentialism for the point of credentialism is 1) incredibly classist; 2) harmful to progressivism's fundamental goals (that being broader equality)
Credentialism for the point of credentialism is 1) incredibly classist; 2) harmful to progressivism's fundamental goals (that being broader equality)
And there’s no left fed Sox because liberal professionals are obsessed with credentialism
August 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
And there’s no left fed Sox because liberal professionals are obsessed with credentialism
Credentialism in hiring is bad enough.
Credentialism in art: fucking stupid.
Credentialism in art: fucking stupid.
July 18, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Credentialism in hiring is bad enough.
Credentialism in art: fucking stupid.
Credentialism in art: fucking stupid.
i suspect the reason that signaling (and moreso credentialism) is so popular as an explanation is that it's very easy to forget where/how you learned something, and very easy to see apparently-empty credentialism at work.
May 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM
i suspect the reason that signaling (and moreso credentialism) is so popular as an explanation is that it's very easy to forget where/how you learned something, and very easy to see apparently-empty credentialism at work.
It’s a good time to mention for people who may be new-ish to me: I promise that I am familiar with MOOCs, Ed-tech, financialization, credentialism. Promise.
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It’s a good time to mention for people who may be new-ish to me: I promise that I am familiar with MOOCs, Ed-tech, financialization, credentialism. Promise.
Credentialism is when you have to know that you're talking about.
August 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Credentialism is when you have to know that you're talking about.
i hate when liberals pull shit like that. i know part of it is because its a sensitive topic for me but you'd think we would have less credentialism when the two worst presidents of the last 50 years went to fucking yale and wharton.
Markwayne Mullin is awful and corrupt for many reasons.
Not having a college degree is not one of them.
I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college.
Not having a college degree is not one of them.
I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college.
March 6, 2026 at 7:36 PM
i hate when liberals pull shit like that. i know part of it is because its a sensitive topic for me but you'd think we would have less credentialism when the two worst presidents of the last 50 years went to fucking yale and wharton.
"Credentialism" just sounds like being pissy about people not taking your arguments seriously because you lack subject matter knowledge.
The debate bro; "By Socratic rhetoric, my arguments are logical and correct!"
The "credentialism": "You think gravity makes heavier objects fall faster!"
The debate bro; "By Socratic rhetoric, my arguments are logical and correct!"
The "credentialism": "You think gravity makes heavier objects fall faster!"
September 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Credentialism" just sounds like being pissy about people not taking your arguments seriously because you lack subject matter knowledge.
The debate bro; "By Socratic rhetoric, my arguments are logical and correct!"
The "credentialism": "You think gravity makes heavier objects fall faster!"
The debate bro; "By Socratic rhetoric, my arguments are logical and correct!"
The "credentialism": "You think gravity makes heavier objects fall faster!"
And will use credentialism against you.. even if you can !!!!
Men LITERALLY cannot tell that a confident young guy can't code his way out of a paper bag. It's wild
February 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
And will use credentialism against you.. even if you can !!!!
Also that they hate institutions of education, but still rely on the credentialism…
Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.
August 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Also that they hate institutions of education, but still rely on the credentialism…
Part of credentialism is believing that intellect is reflected by the right schools, clerkships, jobs, and judicial positions, not by ability to actually defend positions.
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Part of credentialism is believing that intellect is reflected by the right schools, clerkships, jobs, and judicial positions, not by ability to actually defend positions.
When I say neoliberal meritocratic technocracy has hollowed out democracy, I mean that democratic values like public reasoning, representation, and accountability have been displaced by managerial logic, credentialism, and market-driven thinking.
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Can you explain more about how neoliberal meritocratic technocracy has hollowed out democracy?
July 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
When I say neoliberal meritocratic technocracy has hollowed out democracy, I mean that democratic values like public reasoning, representation, and accountability have been displaced by managerial logic, credentialism, and market-driven thinking.
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It's also credentialism. "AI scientist" can mean everything from a guy with a masters of philosophy to a PHD in Mathematics with multiple published papers. Guess which one wrote AI 2027?
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Of course they're smart; they're rich! /s /totallyhowsomepeoplethink
August 22, 2026 at 12:09 AM
It's also credentialism. "AI scientist" can mean everything from a guy with a masters of philosophy to a PHD in Mathematics with multiple published papers. Guess which one wrote AI 2027?
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Such a pathetically thin idea of what intelligence is. Artificial Credentialism.
Grok 4 release event has started
MUSK: "Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously."
"Grok 4 is post-grad level in everything. ... Grok 4 is Ph.D level in everything."
MUSK: "Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously."
"Grok 4 is post-grad level in everything. ... Grok 4 is Ph.D level in everything."
July 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Such a pathetically thin idea of what intelligence is. Artificial Credentialism.
u should read indie comics regardless of their prestige or credentialism. there are tons of stories out there who don't get their due because we never take chances on them my guy!!
July 31, 2026 at 9:43 PM
u should read indie comics regardless of their prestige or credentialism. there are tons of stories out there who don't get their due because we never take chances on them my guy!!
It was an enormous mistake by higher education (and, frankly, left-leaning politicians) to surrender the field and just adopt the view that the purpose of college is simple credentialism as if the only function universities accomplish is admissions.
It's also a further product of Ivy-Disease.
It's also a further product of Ivy-Disease.
WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education.
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May 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
It was an enormous mistake by higher education (and, frankly, left-leaning politicians) to surrender the field and just adopt the view that the purpose of college is simple credentialism as if the only function universities accomplish is admissions.
It's also a further product of Ivy-Disease.
It's also a further product of Ivy-Disease.
ps credentialism and nepotism are injurious to good information.
May 27, 2026 at 1:20 AM
ps credentialism and nepotism are injurious to good information.
Here we are. Having direct personal experience of something, in order to refute a sweeping claim, based on one example, made by someone who apparently does not have such exp, is "credentialism"
August 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Here we are. Having direct personal experience of something, in order to refute a sweeping claim, based on one example, made by someone who apparently does not have such exp, is "credentialism"