A strange thing keeps happening. Me: We need to make gender studies rigorous, evidence-based & strive for objectivity and universities open to ideological diversity! 100 people: You're wrong because that isn't how they are! They're the opposite!
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Those who want to fix a problem within scholarship/activism/a religion are very likely to be perceived by those who want to ban the scholarship/activism/religion or at least condemn it utterly as having failed to understand the seriousness of the problem.
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Therefore, they are likely to respond to "There is a serious problem happening right now that we must fix" with "No, because its a serious problem and happening right now. Let me explain the problem to you and how serious it is." Recognising this helps cut through the disconnect
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If you criticised the methodology around say breast cancer research you would expect experts to take that seriously and not assume you’re attacking the need for cancer research. However I expect some lay people would struggle with the distinction.
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The situation with grievance studies is a bit different because many people don’t believe that the “disease” (ie. that people are systematically disadvantaged by some aspect of there identity) is real. So grievance studies researchers are more defensive by habit.
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@HPluckrose you seem to believe the the “disease” is real and worthy of research, albeit with stronger methodology but judging from many replies to your thread the grievance folk have good reason to be defensive. Many are using the hoax to intentionally throw out baby with BW -
I am not talking about researchers in the fields of grievance studies & their criticism that we fed reactionary aims to prevent scholarship into gender, race and sexuality for social justice purposes but those reactionaries themselves who are angry that we don't want to do that.
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I am never convinced by the argument that we should not address problems on our side because it gives ammo to the other side, whether this is a political side or an academic side or whatever. I think it is by getting our own house in order that we strengthen it & gain support.
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Yes I totally agree. The replies to your tweets show that. I can understand why GS are defensive but i agree they need to take on board “friendly” criticism. Closing ranks is ultimately destructive.
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Exactly. Some folk (myself included) see it as corrupt to the core based on its past trajectory and possessed of personnel who are idealogues first and academics somewhere around 23,164th. There is no reason to believe they can be rehabilitated, and with them goes the subject
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But the subject doesn't go. Gender, race and sexuality continue to exist. You only ban studying them.
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Not everything that exists merits its own subject in the academy.
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They're doing exactly what they're upset about current populist crit-theory people doing, which is to attack something with flaws, deem the flaws as 'systemic' then demand its destruction, like it's the patriarchy or somethin'. (for the cheap seats: the very last bit was sarcasm)
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I don’t bother w/ any oncologist that isn’t an ordained scholar of intersectional theory. You can’t fight aggressively metastisizing cancer w/ the white grievance politics of empirical science.* *bitter sarcasm.
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The solution is changing the way we educate our children. Focus on teaching them how to think rather than what to think so when confronted w/ a polarizing issue, they can rationally evaluate options and choose the best solution. If u can't think, u look to others for answers
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To be more accurate, just add "radical" in front of "feminism" and "religion".
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