I'm a linguist and my personal observation is that the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (in its stronger form) is mostly thriving among non-linguists; it's usually psychologists (but there's also at least one instance of an economist) that make these "revolutionary" discoveries that have been considered disproved by linguists for several decades. Lera Boroditsky who's referenced in this piece is among those. Linguistic determi…
Academics who push the strong S-W Hypothesis in spite of all the evidence against it are usually doing so for ideological reasons. Basically, the idea is to discredit liberalism by claiming it is based on a rigid idea of reality the SWH is alleged to have shown is wrong.
But these same academics then turn around and argue in favor of a Marxist ideology that is equally based on an absolute metaphysics.