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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: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 04 2018, @11:08AM (3 children)
You are assuming the "smart people" have thought long and hard about what they believe, and that conservatives haven't. You are assuming that conservatives accept what they're told uncritically, and that the "smart people" don't.
This article says it has disproved that.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:02PM (2 children)
No, aristarchus is a member of the EL-ite, they divine "reality" through gazing at their navels and insulting anybody who dare question their revelations. As evidenced by his recent subs...
Jordan Peterson is not transphobic or alt-right, he is a practicing clinical psychologist and a widely published (and cited) academic in the field of psychometrics. Then we have the Austrian School article which he's resubmitted in some vainglorious hope that an individualist economic movement can be smeared by association with a collectivist social movement. Aristarchus may not understand why the alt-right emerged but Libertarians do: [mises.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:33PM (1 child)
Jordan Peterson is a charlatan that realized he could make a fortune by spouting word salad to the alt-right. He might actually believe some of the things he says, but that isn't why he says them.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:31PM
This is what transference looks like:
Facts disagree with the claim: [medium.com]
Repeatedly [yellowhammernews.com]
Let's review the real, factually supported objection behind the projection and smear.