Also, this is pretty disparaging to whole fields and whole groups of people. Are you suggesting that one cannot be both activist & scholar?
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One can but its essential to make every effort to keep ideology out of scholarship & that isn't happening in certain fields right now.
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It's never happened, at any time, but that's the point of pushback through peer review & peer criticism. Not criticism from ignorance.
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Um, I really hope you're not calling my friend ignorant.
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I think she's suggesting that you're talking about fields in which you don't have training.
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Helen may not come from this field, but she has published pieces on some of these topics which have been admired/shared by serious thinkers.
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It is possible to intelligently criticise a field from without, and Helen is a very smart skeptical writer who is well up to that task.
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Well, thank you! But is there a specific subject under discussion? I thought we were talking about discourses around diversity?
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That's where it began, yes. I also complained about activist sociological research on bias.
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Well, yes. Jon Haidt has been particularly good on this. I'm currently collecting experiences of dissident sociologists on it for an essay.
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Well, not all sociologists. I have an anthropologist & an archaeologist too.
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