Critical theory doesn't seem to be the issue, though, rather what it inspires people to do. It seems to me there are people hellbent on using their degrees in nonscientific fields in order to convince everyone they have some sort of deeper insight into society and how things ought to be done. They present themselves as scientists in order to do so. People see them using all this academic jargon and citing their biased studies that never would've been published had they come to the wrong conclusions and presume what they have to say must be valid. It can't be of course, there's literally no way to make an actual science out of politics and even if there was, people wouldn't be capable of the required willingness to actually disprove one's hypotheses. The average person doesn't think about all of this, of course, they take these scientists and scholars at face value. The illusion of these so-called soft sciences carrying the same kind of weight as actual sciences is the issue.