I’ve been saying it for over 3 decades- the liberals only hire other liberals once they rise to management.
AND they are willing to FIRE conservatives.
The old guard Professors hired 1960s radicals in the spirit of academic and intellectual freedom
Once they were established in the academic power structure, the radicals became totalitarian tyrants who only hired like minded radicals and instituted a draconian thought control process that killed academic freedoms of speech and destroyed the long held American academic ideals of intellectual discourse and respect for diversity of opinion