Posted on 06/02/2023 3:30:38 AM PDT by karpov
The latest fresh hell is citational justice. Which is quotas for footnotes. Now we’re supposed to track the group identity of the authors we cite and make sure there are lots of blacks, women, and People from the Global South among them. There are already articles, workshops, library guides, and position statements on the subject. There isn’t yet an Office of Citational Justice, but a professional bureaucracy will doubtless soon supplement the mandated do-it-yourself efforts.
There’s no end of word-salad articles by advocates of citational justice describing what it is and attempting to justify it. Far better than such impenetrable jargon is a skeptical piece by an anonymous writer in Areo. That author, in a low-key fashion, makes clear that citational justice would require Rube Goldberg machinery to implement. Even its advocates, listing obstacles to citational justice, make clear that the Areo argument is well-founded:
• What about white-passing Black folks? Determining how an individual identifies can be difficult.
• If you want to cite trans folks, is this a form of outing? Do you include dead names, as publishing has not prioritized removing dead names?
The Areo author helpfully analyzes citational justice within three categories: citational fairness (the contention that biases have reduced the number of footnotes granted to members of certain identity groups), distributive justice (“equity” by identity group, applied to footnotes), and retributive justice (the notion that people who offend progressive sensibilities should not be footnoted). The last is the purest expression of spite, as the Woke seek to unperson any scientist who commits thoughtcrime. Citational justice as a means of retribution is manifest barbarism.
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Un Be Liev Able.
I say “NO!”
One more reason to support a national divorce...
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Humpty Dumpty Justice.
Most academic papers don’t include enough citations from Latvians. Something must be done.
So basically, they propose a justification to censor white people and political opponents and hide the racist agenda in a bunch of pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook.
Interesting idea, but it reads better in the original German.
If you are citing people based on their race, sex, pretend race, pretend sex, political connections (quick, cite Kim Jung Un and Hunter Biden to give them more hits), where you like rubbing you ginitals or anything else other academic rigor then your paper is probably better used as toilet paper or kindling than for further research.
So you write a scholarly paper and get it published. But you soon find out that the paper has been taken down and you are getting ‘cancelled’ on social media (which is anything but social IMHO). And the reason for all this aggravation is because you didn’t include enough footnotes citing sources from our ‘protected sub-species (phags, woke-holes, etc)’?
Do I have that right?
“Six steps to George Floyd.”
(Like six steps to Kevin Bacon.)
I had to check if this was from the Babylon Bee. It reads like satire. Sadly, it is not.
Here's link to a University of Wisconsin/Madison advice to grad students:
Just another indication that there are too many people wasting their time on advanced academic degrees.
The Ivory Tower has become the Vinyl Outlet Mall.
Right and wrong
Wisdom and foolish
Correct and incorrect
All are situational in the land of the woke; dependent on circumstances of race, sex, country of Origen and Gender Identity.
Where there are no absolute truths there is no possibility of justice and equality before the law.
Just when you think we’ve reached maximum insanity, crap like this shows up to prove you wrong.
Certain folks want equality, but don’t want to do the many things “wyte” people have had to do to earn their bread. They do not want to learn a skill before being congratulated for doing it badly, or not doing it at all and then declaring it oppressive.
Since forever, wytes have scolded and scorned other wytes who won’t work for a living, calling them “shirkers”, “good-for-nothings”, “lazybones”, “deadbeats”, “slackers” and a host of other perjoratives. But calling out the same behavior in other folks is not allowed.
Wytes do not like people who take a free ride off the labor of others. Hmm, that’s the definition of slavery... seems it works both ways. But only one way is obvious.
Great comment - Ima stealing it ...
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