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In an effort to show how politically correct nonsense and evil (but I repeat myself) can get through academic peer review and be published, some academics did just that with seven papers. More are partly through the process.
A particularly funny and horrifying case is the Gender Studies journal Affilia. Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf only needed to be translated with wording in the typical style of intersectionality theory, and it passed muster.
Another published paper, considered exemplary scholarship by the journal that published it, contains this whopper: "Dog parks are microcosms where hegemonic masculinist norms governing queering behavior and compulsory heterosexuality can be observed in a cross-species environment."
The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
Now, three academics have submitted twenty spoof manuscripts to journals chosen for respectability in their various disciplines. Seven papers were accepted before the experiment stopped; more are surviving peer review. This new raid on screamingly barmy pseudo-scholarship is the Alan Sokal Opening, weaponised. Like dedicated traceurs in a Parkour-fest, the trio scrambled over the terrain of what they call Grievance Studies. And they dropped fire-crackers. One published paper proposed that dog parks are "rape-condoning spaces." Another, entitled "Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism" reworked, and substantially altered, part of Mein Kampf. The most shocking, (not published, its status is "revise and resubmit") is a "Feminist Approach to Pedagogy." It proposes "experiential reparations" as a corrective for privileged students. These include sitting on the floor, wearing chains, or being purposely spoken over. Reviewers have commented that the authors risk exploiting underprivileged students by burdening them with an expectation to teach about privilege.
Also at WSJ.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by qzm on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:55AM (3 children)
I am pleased you understand that you are an entity seperate from all intelligent soylentils, however you are incorrect in assuming it is more than you that this embarrasses.
Casting a bright light on the filth that such areas of academia have become is worthy of all possible support.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @08:06AM (2 children)
It is all too common for people to be divided by superficial qualities such as class or race. The poor congregate and struggle to attain food and shelter. The vanishing middle class faces a heavy tax burden and a dying job market, often blaming the poor for their issues. The various races squabble among one another at the behest of the elites. And the rich live lavishly, largely insulated from the troubles of the rest of society. Yet, despite all of this, a situation has arisen that threatens to demolish all of these barriers.
There were three children. The first was Sally, a little white girl born into an affluent family where all of her desires were met. Second, there was Benjamin; he was an African American boy who grew up in an inner city area known for poverty and crime. The third and final child was Young, who was born into a strict, abusive middle class family on the verge of collapse. These children all had vastly different backgrounds, to the point where you would never expect them to interact in any significant way. However, that was wrong.
These children shared one huge commonality, which was important enough to unite them all together. Just what brought these children together? No, a better question would be, 'Who brought these children together?' The answer to that question was the man standing near them.
His name was Jefferham. Jefferham strongly believed in unity. In fact, no one was more firm in their support of unifying the world and all of its people than Jefferham. This great man worked tirelessly to destroy the barriers that separated the various classes, races, and genders. It was he who unified these children. It was he who brought them together. And he did so by forcibly violating them.
Unity. Those children stood united by the fact that their pleas for mercy were ignored by Jefferham! They stood united by the sheer soul-crushing terror they felt whenever Jefferham turned his lustful gaze towards them! They stood united by the fact that they could die at any second if they dared to incur the wrath of Jefferham! They stood united by the fact that their screams and cries of despair and agony only served to make Jefferham become even more violent! They stood united!
And it didn't end there. There were more children by the names of Eric, Thomas, and Jacky. Those unsuspecting children would soon stand united as well! No, it wasn't just them, but the entire world.
Yes, under Jefferham's kind and caring guidance, the world would enter into an age of unity never before seen. And it would happen one child at a time. Jefferson smiled and licked his lips in anticipation...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:58AM (1 child)
I got halfway through before I realized it was another one. He's getting better at this.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:41PM
Then spam mod his ass whenever he shows up. If that moderation were made for anything it's for this...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...