This is a meta question about this subreddit and the academic/historical fields represented by the flaired users who specifically post here.

There seems to be an intense grassroots movement on the internet for a kind of historical revisionism regarding Islamic history and civilization.

While this is not rooted in academia like previous revisionist movements have been), it seems that due to sociopolitical forces, this influence will eventually be knocking on academia's door.

I say that because these viewpoints are now hitting wide majorities among many Western demographics in polls.

Another thing is the rampant "anti-intellectualism" which is spreading, via the internet, across the world in which people basically get to pick and choose narratives they like, each with its own curriculum/syllabus of "works" (since anyone can write a book and get it published). The study of Islamic civilization's history is but one of the things being affected by this.

Do you think these cultural forces will eventually overtake academia? Even if that can't happen externally (tenured professors and all that), if there's a cultural movement to imbibe the next generation of kids with these ideas, these kids will be your successors in the study of history and will bring these ideas into academia. How long do you think Western historical social sciences will hold out against such a thing? The "democratization" of the social science of history? Have you already noticed "movement" from certain universities or departments?

Feel free to address the general issue in any way you prefer if you don't have any particular thoughts on the matter. For example, forget Islam altogether and use any other field that could have been treated similarly in the social sciences.