Would be embarrassing, were embarrassment anywhere to be found in the emotional makeup of the committed leftist hacks that infest academe.
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<snip>The three academics call themselves âleft-leaning liberals.â Yet theyâre dismayed by what they describe as a âgrievance studiesâ takeover of academia, especially its encroachment into the sciences. âI think that certain aspects of knowledge production in the United States have been corrupted,â Mr. Boghossian says. Anyone who questions research on identity, privilege and oppression risks accusations of bigotry.
But the trio defended their actions, saying they viewed the deception not as a prank but as a âhoax of exposure,â or a way to do immersive research that couldnât be conducted any other way. âWe understood ourselves to be going in to study it as it is, to try to participate in it,â Ms. Pluckrose says. âThe name for this is ethnography. Weâre looking at a particular culture.â
Each paper âcombined an effort to better understand the field itself with an attempt to get absurdities and morally fashionable political ideas published as legitimate academic research,â Mr. Lindsay wrote in a project summary. Their elaborate submissions cited and quoted dozens of real papers and studies to bolster the hoax arguments
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