Intellectual Dark Web

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    I alluded to this project in the side notes a while back, don't know if it's been posted before but essentially a group of left leaning academics exposing 'grievance studies' (the motivation for the laundering of fringe concepts relating to race, gender through the university system). I don't particularly find any of them more likeable than Peterson et al. but as a project I find it a far more effective expose than anything I've heard from him.

    I get wound up when I hear that criticism of these 'intellectual dark web' guys is "from the left". Irregardless of political interests I think it's right to be suspicious of the motivations of an individual or group challenging the rights of minority groups, particularly if they're claiming biological proof... Historically that's very dangerous territory.

    Anyway, (if your goal isn't genocide) exposing the systems that lead to this shit (by submitting fake papers to academic journals) and creating terminology to describe the phenomenon seems like a far better way to stimulate public discussion and accomplish the same thing.

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    • the papers that actually got published were verging on onion territory. they were quite funny.Gnash
    • while none of the journals were on the level of Science or Nature, they were considered notable in the fields of grievance studies.Gnash
    • "I think it's right to be suspicious of the motivations of an individual or group challenging the rights of minority groups" Nobody is doing that.cannonball1978
    • I'm referring to the hurt caused by statements like “I don’t recognise another person’s right to determine what pronouns I use to address them” - Petersonkingsteven
    • I was going to write "perceived rights" but really I don't think it's right to suggest that they're entirely fictional. ie. better to criticise the system thankingsteven
    • folks enveloped in this or that doctrine because 'biology sez'kingsteven
    • I'm not sensing where you come down on the issue, King, but it's nobody's right to compel the way someone expresses their perception, minority or not.cannonball1978
    • its always good to have debates. These corruptions are not just in uni's, drug companies and dietary as wellmugwart
    • "irregardless"imbecile
    • ^ hah im not writing an academic paperkingsteven
    • reminds me a of a bit by george lopezimbecile
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