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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

An interesting experiment on objective reality.

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We spent that time writing academic papers and publishing them in respected peer-reviewed journals associated with fields of scholarship loosely known as “cultural studies” or “identity studies” (for example, gender studies) or “critical theory” because it is rooted in that postmodern brand of “theory” which arose in the late sixties. As a result of this work, we have come to call these fields “grievance studies” in shorthand because of their common goal of problematizing aspects of culture in minute detail in order to attempt diagnoses of power imbalances and oppression rooted in identity.

We undertook this project to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research. Because open, good-faith conversation around topics of identity such as gender, race, and sexuality (and the scholarship that works with them) is nearly impossible, our aim has been to reboot these conversations. We hope this will give people—especially those who believe in liberalism, progress, modernity, open inquiry, and social justice—a clear reason to look at the identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left and say, “No, I will not go along with that. You do not speak for me.”

This document is a first look at our project and an initial attempt to grapple with what we’re learning and what it means. Because of its length and detail, it is organized as follows, putting the factual information up front and more detailed explanations thereafter.

- Our methodology, which is central to contextualizing our claims;

- A summary of this project from its beginning until we were eventually exposed and forced to go public before we could conclude our research;

- An explanation of why we did this;

- A summary of the problem and why it matters;

- A clear explanation of how this project came to be;

- The results of our study, including a full list of all of the papers we submitted, their final outcomes, and relevant reviewer comments to date;

- A discussion of the significance of the results;

- A summary of what may come next

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Why do men go to Hooters? This hardly seems like an academic question.

How about: “An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant?” That has a certain scholarly ring.

The latter was the title of one of several papers published in credible journals over the past year, but were revealed to be a hoax earlier this month. Others include a discussion of canine rape culture at a dog park; a proposal of a theory that encouraging men to anally self-penetrate would combat transphobia; and a paper on “Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism” that replaced the anti-Semitic phrases in Hitler’s Mein Kamf with feminist buzzwords. In total, seven of the 20 false papers the hoaxters submitted were accepted by peer-reviewed journals.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Will this help Liberals start to recognize the Fake News that they constantly consume unquestioningly?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I might be reading this as well, since it was written by the three awesome individuals who did it.

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I might be reading this as well, since it was written by the three awesome individuals who did it.

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You did see where these 3 awesome individuals are left wing Liberals/academics, right?

Just checking.

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Left-wing liberals who are opposed to the identity politics developments on the left increasingly find ourselves accused of being right wing, referred to as “right wing” and scornfully urged to admit that we are right wing by identitarian lefties. ~Helen Pluckrose

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