Brilliant thread showing how even empirical idea laundering is pulled off. Ironically, if the authors and reviewers valued viewpoint diversity instead of superficial diversity, this could have been avoided and real insights might have been available. https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1306352455295275009

The Critical Social Justice ideology equates identity and politics without realizing that this creates ideological uniformity because they think the only relevant politics are identity politics and that they're right or wrong according to if they agree with Theory.

Theory isn't technically essentialist (all people of X race are/think this way). Instead, it believes that there's an essential experience of systemic power that nobody can really escape, and race or other identity determines that experience.

Theory also believes people are socialized into accepting the identity-based status quo, regardless of their identity, so if you disagree with Theory's take about the lived experience of identity, then you must have false consciousness or be cynically self-interested.

This means that Theory wants superficial diversity of people who land in different identity categories and who don't have false consciousness about them because if they did it just would just repeat the hegemonic narratives that socialize everyone into accepting the status quo.

Not having false consciousness means having a critical consciousness, i.e., having become a Critical Theorist, i.e., having the one narrow set of political opinions of the Woke Left expressed in the way each identity group colors them. That's what they mean by "diversity."

In the @wokal_distance thread at the top of this thread, you can see clearly how that fails. Conservatives and libertarians have false consciousness or cynical self-interest, so their views can't be considered veridical, so very basic errors propagate as "knowledge."

It's clear that a lack of ideological viewpoint diversity will routinely lead to missing key insights and getting bad answers. Theory virtually ensures there's no significant viewpoint diversity beyond identity-based special interests within Theory itself. Disaster.