Every dullard pseudointellectual in anything within 100 miles of a politicised topic like postcolonialism or Gender Studies. This is the Diversity.
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The Diversity has its tentacles all over the University and is strangling it to death. Everyone still a member of the old traditional University – ordinary profs of Greek & Latin, historians of Renaissance Italy, people doing cognitive Psychology – they are under siege.
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All of that rank stupidity I catalogued earlier – all that is happening in remnants of the University. Standards are really low. A lot of people there are deeply, deeply stupid, because there's very little demand that they be any good.https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1384147525863501833?s=20 …
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eugyppius @eugyppius1This means that a lot of basic technical and linguistic skills are beyond the abilities of most professors. It is routine to encounter published articles in major journals that are premised on simple linguistic misunderstandings. https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1383861783236988938?s=20 …Show this thread1 reply 2 retweets 58 likesShow this thread -
But the Diversity that has taken over, is at an entirely different level. It is not even stupid. It is cargo-cult scholarship. It is here-I-put-some-books-on-my-shelves-I-am-intellectual scholarship. It is I-wear-problem-glasses-that-makes-my-opinion-matter scholarship.
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It is I-use-big-words-I'm-smart scholarship. The Diversity cannot function within the ordinary intellectual forms of the University, so it has formed a parallel pseudointellectual world.
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They have a whole range of parallel journals and parallel societes and parallel erdited series and in some cases even parallel presses where they can publish their bizarre pseudoscholarship.
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Journals like Fat Studies and Sex Roles: Places that James Lindsay and the people at New Discourses punked with a bunch of fake papers back in 2018 ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair …
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... in a rerun of the Sokal hoax from 1996. Nobody familiar with the intellectual standards (lmao) of Diversity was remotely amazed at the so-called Grievance Studies Affair, because these people publish errant nonsense every five minutes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair …
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I had Diversity colleagues who taught entire seminars on television shows they liked. I had Diversity colleagues who did not know what Persia was. I had Diversity colleagues who appeared to be barely literate. These people taught writing seminars.
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Replying to @eugyppius1
Do you mean colleagues in your discipline who were diverse or colleagues in diversity disciplines?
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Diversity colleagues. My discipline doesn't really have any Diversity, there are barriers to entry.
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