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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:44AM
there is a "Translator's Notes" at the very beginning.
There are several distinctly different German dialects. As an Austrian, Hitler spoke Hochdeutsch - "High German" - which is the dialect of the mountainous south. I was taught Hochdeutsch in high school; as with Castellano - Iberian or European Spanish - Hochdeutsch is commonly taught because one can expect every German to understand it.
Hochdeutsch is very sharp and guttural. Imagine a NAZI Sergeant shouting "Achtung!" or "Mach Schnell!" - Hochdeutsch works really well for shouting scary commands.
But Mein Kampf isn't written that way, rather it's very much in Lower German - the dialect of the agrarian north of the country. It's much softer and far more easy on the ear.
I had a German witch doctor once. To evaluate how in touch with reality I was, he once asked me what the date was. I had to think about it so I said out loud "Dreissig Tage hat Setember, April, Juni und November".
"Oh you're good," he said quite pleasantly.
"Lower German?"
"Ja."
"Peenemunde?" - That's where Werner Von Braun tested his rockets.
"No, that's way up there."
In reality, Dr. Wunderstein - "Wonder Stone", I always called him "Herr Doktor Kriptoneit" - spoke Hochdeutsch, but he adopted a Lower German accent so as to put his patients at ease.
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