Posted on 12/15/2022 5:08:55 PM PST by Rummyfan
The psychologists are burning another witch. A mob of professors, graduate students, and miscellaneous luftmenschen denounced Klaus Fiedler, the editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, for “racism, general editorial incompetence, and abuse of power.” The Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), craven accomplices to the mob, swiftly told Fiedler to resign or be fired. Fiedler resigned.
The occasion? In 2020, one Steven Roberts of Stanford University published the usual farrago of identity-politics activism that passes for professional research among the woke, copy-pasted to apply to psychology. Fiedler, naif, arranged to publish a professional discussion of his article—which, naturally, thoroughly but politely dismantled his argument. Roberts’ solicited response included the slanderous accusation that respondent Lee Jussim’s citation of a line from Fiddler on the Roof (“Of course, there was the time when he sold him a horse, but delivered a mule.”) somehow invoked a long-forgotten derogatory comparison of blacks to mules.
(Gentle reader, is there one living American in a thousand who knows that this comparison ever existed?)
Fiedler, solicitous of Roberts’ professional reputation, asked him to withdraw that particular ad hominem. Roberts responded by withdrawing his article and publishing it as an open-access pre-print, publicly denouncing Fiedler and all his critics as proof that “systemic racism exists in science,” and sparking the social-media frenzy that led to Fiedler’s forced resignation.
Lee Jussim, distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University, has provided an extensive account of Roberts’ writings and of this witch-hunt. More broadly, he has described the general behavior of the identity-politics mobs who seek to destroy psychology.
(Excerpt) Read more at mindingthecampus.org ...
I think that means what we would call "a lightweight."
The expression einen Luftpost means "a nothing job."
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