There is a long history of people like this being right despite the oppression on occasion.
A dominant school of thought producing no observable results over decades, instead apparently relying on career pressure to conform and perpetuate the path would normally be considered dogmatic rather than oppressed, and doesn't immediately spring to mind as a model for "a long history of people like this being right".
A dominant school of thought producing no observable results over decades, instead apparently relying on career pressure to conform and perpetuate the path would normally be considered dogmatic rather than oppressed, and doesn't immediately spring to mind as a model for "a long history of people like this being right".