/lit/ - Literature

How did the media, academia, and all of that shit get to a point where they try to appeal to left wing people as much as possible? When and why did it shift so far towards liberal beliefs?

We now see in all of the new big budget movies by the big companies that get tons of cash very diverse casts. New sites also seem to be very biased towards this kind of thing. College campuses go out of their way to bring this kind of stuff up in their advertising and during college visits. It just seems like liberal ideas have completely invaded a lot of these institutions.

I mostly see people when they discuss this just bring up how this is the case. People talk about how these things are very biased towards the left, they bring up specific examples, and they mock them. But there has to be a reason why they go out of their way to seem progressive and liberal.

So when did this transition start? And more importantly, WHY do all of these types of institutions go out of their way to seem liberal? Is there some huge advantage to doing it, is its prevalence just overblown by conservatives, is there some political motivation? I have a hard time believing that all of these huge companies and industries actually care a lot about being progressive and are as stupidly biased for no reason as conservatives like to say, so I wonder what the reason for all of this is.