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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:26AM (1 child)
> They are "smart people"
And they are also totalitarians (differing from nazis only in their choice of victims, as it has been documented here, again), they write books to educate your children and exert political pressure disregarding the outdated notion of objective truth.
Really a good match for the conservative right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:50PM
Yep. It should surprise no one that Mein Kampf is acceptable to these people. They support identity politics, just the same as Literal Hitler! Just a different choice of who the favored demographic is (upper-class white women) and who the Giftpilze are (white males and other superpredators).
- Schrödinger's Rapist: another way of formulating Der Giftpilz.
- Men are like a bowl of poisoned M&Ms: Giftpilz mit Schokolade überzogene.
Just stop the goddamned identity politics! alt-right = Literal Hitler. SJWs = Inverse Hitler. No more!
The only way out of this is for the working class to unite. An injury to one is an injury to all.