Take away tenure, and you'd take away one of the last remaining protections for free speech in academia. Is that what you want?
For tenure in a science dept, you usually need at least 30 journal papers cited thousands of times. For tenure in most grievance studies depts, you need a handful of papers & one book cited a few dozen times -- plus the right politics. Low standards for quality AND quantity.
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This only proves low standards for quantity if you assume that 1 science paper = 1 humanities paper, and, for quality, if you assume that 1 science citation = 1 humanities citation. Neither assumption is correct.
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No, I was being generous. Some science papers actually get replicated; almost no humanities papers do.
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>plus the right politics I would say "plus the left politics"
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How many co-authors on those 30 papers? Hard sciences regularly have 20+ co-authors discussing one experiment (where half the article is just a methods discussion). Humanities and social sciences are fundamentally different fields and your comparison is an ill-informed joke.
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So are people who critical of this particular branch of academia automatically partisan? Is that how this works now? Does one just transform from a liberal into an alt-right neonazi the moment they approach the subject from a critical perspective? Is it like becoming a werewolf?
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This is actually encouraging. It proves most people are good. Evil need lopsided incentives to spread.
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