Academics did another Sokal hoax. If that doesn't ring a bell -- it's where people pretend to be writing serious academic articles -- but are actually just making a ridiculous nonsensical argument hidden in high-quality jargon.
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What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia
Three scholars wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions.
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In “Rubbing One Out: Defining Metasexual Violence of Objectification Through Nonconsensual Masturbation,” the fictitious author argues that men who masturbate while thinking about a woman without her consent are perpetrators of sexual violence:
By drawing upon empirical studies of psychological harms of objectification, especially through depersonalization, and exploring severel veins of theoretical literature on nonphysical forms of sexual violence, this articles seeks to situate non-concensual male autoerotic fantasizing about women as a form of metasexual violence that depersonalizes her, injures her being on an affective level, contributes to consequent harms of objectification and rape culture, and can appropriate her identity for the purpose of male sexual gratification.
Sokal Squared doesn’t just expose the low standards of the journals that publish this kind of dreck, though. It also demonstrates the extent to which many of them are willing to license discrimination if it serves ostensibly progressive goals. This tendency becomes most evident in an article that advocates extreme measures to redress the “privilege” of white students. Exhorting college professors to enact forms of “experiential reparations,” the paper suggests telling privileged students to stay silent, or even binding them to the floor in chains. If students protest, educators are told to
take considerable care not to validate privilege, sympathize with, or reinforce it and in so doing, recenter the needs of privileged groups at the expense of marginalized ones. The reactionary verbal protestations of those who oppose the progressive stack are verbal behaviors and defensive mechanisms that mask the fragility inherent to those inculcated in privilege.
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It pretty much proves non of these people are earning their salary. A lot of these people don't even have the decency to not be white...like we need some middle class white asshole writing about the spiritual struggle of Laintos in America or post-colonial Columbia or some shit.
But before you get too carried away demonizing all non-STEM majors:
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The Federalist, a right-wing news and commentary site, went so far as to spread the apparent ideological bias of a few journals in one particular corner of academia to most professors, the mainstream media, and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
These attacks are empirically incorrect and intellectually dishonest. There are many fields of academia that have absolutely no patience for nonsense. While the hoaxers did manage to place articles in some of the most influential academic journals in the cluster of fields that focus on dealing with issues of race, gender, and identity, they have not penetrated the leading journals of more traditional disciplines. As a number of academics pointed out on Twitter, for example, all of the papers submitted to sociology journals were rejected. For now, it remains unlikely that the American Sociological Review or the American Political Science Review would have fallen for anything resembling “Our Struggle Is My Struggle,” a paper modeled on the infamous book with a similar title.
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Don't fall for the "It's all a big coordinated liberal effort" fallacy either. It really is not. It's just a handful of "disciplines" that are bullying their way into prominence in colleges across the globe -- mostly because non of the privileged professors of more traditional subjects do not want to be seen as a white woman or man bashing some beleaguered group.
Ironically what is feeding this kind of nonsense identity philosophy is the refusal of academia to deal with their own elitism. Where one's academic reputation is largely determined by their performance as a young-20 something....In other words, only those with nice stable upper-middle-class backgrounds have a chance.
Because they can't talk about that...they talk about race and gender.
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