{"id":380945,"date":"2018-10-14T16:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-grievance-studies-hoax-exposes-postmodernist-charlatans\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T15:49:35","slug":"the-grievance-studies-hoax-exposes-postmodernist-charlatans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-grievance-studies-hoax-exposes-postmodernist-charlatans\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cGrievance Studies\u201d hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The \u201cGrievance Studies\u201d hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    13 October 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On October 2, Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian published an article titled \u201cAcademic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship,\u201d incorporating the results of a year-long effort to publish hoax articles, deliberately comprised of bunk facts and irrational and reactionary conclusions, in academic journals associated with gender, racial and identity studies.<\/p>\n<p>The results expose the intellectual bankruptcy of identity politics and postmodernist philosophy. Their proponents, who dominate university humanities departments worldwide, are charlatans who have published or given favorable \u201crevise and resubmit\u201d comments to the most absurd and vulgar pseudo-scientific arguments.<\/p>\n<p>These include: a purported 1,000-hour study of dog \u201chumping\u201d patterns at dog parks that concludes by calling for human males to be \u201ctrained\u201d like dogs to prevent rape culture; a long-form poem produced through a teenage angst poetry generator about women holding spiritual-sexual \u201cmoon meetings\u201d in a secret \u201cwomb room\u201d and praying to a \u201cvulva shrine;\u201d a proposal to develop feminist robots, trained to think irrationally, to control humanity and subjugate white men; and additional articles relating to male masturbation. Another proposal, which was praised by reviewers in a paper that was ultimately rejected, encouraged teachers to place white students in chains to be shamed for their \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is an element of humor in the fact that such drivel could win accolades from academics and journals. The \u201cdog park\u201d article was even selected as one of the most influential contributions in the history of the <em>Gender, Place and Culture<\/em> journal!<\/p>\n<p>But the implications&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/13\/pers-o13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The \u201cGrievance Studies\u201d hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans 13 October 2018 On October 2, Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian published an article titled \u201cAcademic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship,\u201d incorporating the results of a year-long effort to publish hoax articles, deliberately comprised of bunk facts and irrational and reactionary conclusions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}