https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-news-comes-to-academia-1538520950?mod=hp_opin_pos2
Grievance Studies Hoaxed
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Holy bejeebers, this is pure gold:
Affilia, a peer-reviewed journal of women and social work, formally accepted the trio’s hoax paper, “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism.” The second portion of the paper is a rewrite of a chapter from “Mein Kampf.” Affilia’s editors declined to comment.
Even better:
One hoax paper, submitted to Hypatia, proposed a teaching method centered on “experiential reparations.” It suggested that professors rate students’ levels of oppression based on race, gender, class and other identity categories. Students deemed “privileged” would be kept from commenting in class, interrupted when they did speak, and “invited” to “sit on the floor” or “to wear (light) chains around their shoulders, wrists or ankles for the duration of the course.” Students who complained would be told that this “educational tool” helps them confront “privileged fragility.”
Hypatia’s two unnamed peer reviewers did not object that the proposed teaching method was abusive. “I like this project very much,” one commented.
The only thing that disturbed me is that these hoaxers have more fake journal articles than I have real ones.
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e571, if your description about that person is truthful, they are definitely committing a very illegal and abusive civil rights violation by openly engaging in racial/gender discrimination in an education setting. That behavior should be reported and publicized, so that person is terminated from their position and prevented from ever wielding authority over students in a classroom ever again.
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"e571, if your description about that person is truthful, they are definitely committing a very illegal and abusive civil rights violation by openly engaging in racial/gender discrimination in an education setting. That behavior should be reported and publicized, so that person is terminated from their position and prevented from ever wielding authority over students in a classroom ever again."
it probably is true. a few weeks ago I sat through a seminar where a fellow faculty member started making jokes about white males. at one point she repeated three times "do this in an overconfident way like those mediocre wh ite males do." several of the students in the room looked incredibly uncomfortable the first time she said it. not sure if she thought they misunderstood her or if she noticed their discomfort and wanted to stoke the flame, but she repeated it. then the graduate director, another wh ite male, made this exaggerated, awkward laugh. at that point she repeated it again before the graduate director interrupted her with some comment clearly intended to move the conversation along.
The mods keep deleting this comment for some reason.
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^^^^Is the grad director in question also co-editor of an ASA journal? I heard something similar to this from a former student who was there (assuming this is the same event that 4fa9 is referencing). My student was bothered by it, and said several of the male students there were offended. Justifiably so, I would say. Hard to believe a sociologist is acting this way. But people in our field do it all the time. Worse still, this apparently occurred in a graduate student professionalization seminar. Some role model.