Grievance Studies Gets Sokol'd

[Trausti]

Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals

One paper, published in a journal called Sex Roles, said that the author had conducted a two-year study involving “thematic analysis of table dialogue” to uncover the mystery of why heterosexual men like to eat at Hooters.

Another, from a journal of feminist geography, parsed “human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity” at dog parks in Portland, Ore., while a third paper, published in a journal of feminist social work and titled “Our Struggle Is My Struggle,” simply scattered some up-to-date jargon into passages lifted from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”

Such offerings may or may not have raised eyebrows among the journals’ limited readerships. But this week, they unleashed a cascade of mockery — along with a torrent of debate about ethics of hoaxes, the state of peer review and the excesses of academia — when they were revealed to be part of an elaborate prank aimed squarely at what the authors labeled “grievance studies.”

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Perhaps it's time for a rethink of all the money spent at universities.

 

[bilby]

Your conclusion doesn't follow from your outrage.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that these hoaxes say anything at all about the value for money represented by universities; Rather this is a cheap appeal to emotions aimed at the goal of anti-intellectualism and the further dumbing down of society.

Paradoxically, the result, were this appeal to succeed, would be more general stupidity, of the kind that enables the invitation to outrage in the OP, not less.

In short, I reject both your call to outrage, and your vile solution to this nonexistent problem.

 

[Underseer]

Your conclusion doesn't follow from your outrage.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that these hoaxes say anything at all about the value for money represented by universities; Rather this is a cheap appeal to emotions aimed at the goal of anti-intellectualism and the further dumbing down of society.

Paradoxically, the result, were this appeal to succeed, would be more general stupidity, of the kind that enables the invitation to outrage in the OP, not less.

In short, I reject both your call to outrage, and your vile solution to this nonexistent problem.

Nazis have a long tradition of anti-intellectualism. How else do you get people to accept arguments like "Atlantis proves that white people are superior"? If you let smart people into the group, they will quickly debunk arguments like that, and then you won't be able to tell your brainless minions that they are special princess snowflakes because their parents had white skin.

 

[Elixir]

... then you won't be able to tell your brainless minions that they are special princess snowflakes because their parents had white skin.

No longer the case. Now, you can tell them anything you like no matter how obviously and demonstrably false, and the brainless minions will swallow it whole.
Thank you, Donald.