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Professor at College of N. Texas FIRED. Why?
Next to lounge sign touting the awfulness of microaggressions, he wrote, "Don't leave this garbage lying around." https://abc14news.com/2020/04/18/u-of-north-texas-prof-fired-for-saying-microaggressions-are-garbage/
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Professor at College of N. Texas FIRED. Why?
Next to lounge sign touting the awfulness of microaggressions, he wrote, "Don't leave this garbage lying around." https://abc14news.com/2020/04/18/u-of-north-texas-prof-fired-for-saying-microaggressions-are-garbage/
For the record:
Microaggressions is a bona fide area of research, most of which is quite shoddy and around which there is quite a lot of controversy.
"Garbage" is not my view, but is well within the range of justifiable *scientific* opinions.
Microaggressions is a bona fide area of research, most of which is quite shoddy and around which there is quite a lot of controversy.
"Garbage" is not my view, but is well within the range of justifiable *scientific* opinions.
Remember the Grievance Studies Sting (aka as "hoax" -- more on why "hoax" is wrong term in a minute; aka as Sokal Squared)? If not, here's a reminder: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201810/intellectual-corruption-and-peer-review
It was an exposé of the pervasiveness of all sorts of dysfunctions in academic "Studies" fields, in which nonsense can be promoted as long as it advocates Social Justice, the more aggressive, punitive, authoritarian and intolerant, the better.
Does that sound like I am being overwrought? Re-read the top tweet. A guy just got fired for mocking microaggressions. Still think I am being overwrought?
Playing on grievances to stigmatize, ostracize, and punish people? Do you have any idea what type of people/ideologies have done that historically?
Grievance Studies was erroneously derided as publishing only in low quality journals. This paper, which had absurd data (recognized by @RealPeerReview), received an award as best paper of the year at a "quality" gender journal.
Dog rape. If only we could leash men like dogs.
Dog rape. If only we could leash men like dogs.
This paper? Published in Hypatia, perhaps the top quality feminist philosophy journals.
Which brings me back to the prof fired at N. Texas for criticizing microaggressions.
Which brings me back to the prof fired at N. Texas for criticizing microaggressions.
In that paper^ they argue for this:
"...sanctions can be put in place for those who seek only to derail and disparage in order to maintain social, cultural, and institutional dominance."
I guess N. Texas College took them seriously.
"...sanctions can be put in place for those who seek only to derail and disparage in order to maintain social, cultural, and institutional dominance."
I guess N. Texas College took them seriously.
This paper just came out. Its very real and argues that what he calls the "hoax" (sic) papers should be reinstated. Why?
He argues:
1. The authors' intentions do not matter.
2. He repeatedly acknowledges that the scholarship in the "hoax" papers is just "opinion" and therefore cannot be known to be false or even ludicrous.
1. The authors' intentions do not matter.
2. He repeatedly acknowledges that the scholarship in the "hoax" papers is just "opinion" and therefore cannot be known to be false or even ludicrous.
Implicitly, he reveals that GS fields are opinion-mongerers, not fact or knowledge-producers.
This could be fine if GS notions were presented as "we're just a bunch of radical lefty types, here's our opinions."
That would be Truth in Advertising.
This could be fine if GS notions were presented as "we're just a bunch of radical lefty types, here's our opinions."
That would be Truth in Advertising.
Of course, then hardly anyone would pay attention.
So instead, GS drapes itself in the mantle of the credibility of "peer review" and "scholarship." (thereby simultaneously advancing its credibility and corroding that of fields that aspire to do more than promote opinion).
So instead, GS drapes itself in the mantle of the credibility of "peer review" and "scholarship." (thereby simultaneously advancing its credibility and corroding that of fields that aspire to do more than promote opinion).
I agree with Coles, the author. Except for the ones where they made up data, all the papers should be reinstated --
as a beacon of sunshine enlightening the world to some very dark corners of academia.
as a beacon of sunshine enlightening the world to some very dark corners of academia.
Oh, and that N Texas Prof? He's suing.
Things are tough all over for colleges and U's with the financial/budgetary fallout from the Covid Crisis.
I hope he bankrupts the place.
https://centerforacademicfreedom.org/newsroom/adf-sues-univ-of-n-texas-on-behalf-of-math-professor-fired-for-joke-about-microaggressions/
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Things are tough all over for colleges and U's with the financial/budgetary fallout from the Covid Crisis.
I hope he bankrupts the place.
https://centerforacademicfreedom.org/newsroom/adf-sues-univ-of-n-texas-on-behalf-of-math-professor-fired-for-joke-about-microaggressions/
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