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Professors Are Warning Against Promoting The Work Of Straight, White Men
The Washington Post ^ | July 16, 2017

Posted on 07/17/2017 2:34:26 AM PDT by Helicondelta

Academics and scholars must be mindful about using research done by only straight, white men, according to two scientists who argued that it oppresses diverse voices and bolsters the status of already privileged and established white male scholars.

Geographers Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne argued in a recent paper that doing so also perpetuates what they call “white heteromasculinism,” which they defined as a “system of oppression” that benefits only those who are “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.” (Cisgendered describes people whose gender identity matches their birth sex.)

In their 22-page paper, “Citation matters: mobilizing the politics of citation toward a practice of 'conscientious engagement,'" they explained that their work was motivated by “shared feelings of discomfort, frustration, and anger” over actions of fellow scholars and publication practices.

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To: Helicondelta

400 years ago half world was running around neked playing Hatfield and McCoys, and eating each other - raw and cooked

thank goodness for the white folk who were writing symphonies and perfecting common law at the time

ships weren’t the best invention for the western world


21 posted on 07/17/2017 4:41:57 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: SkyPilot

22 posted on 07/17/2017 4:46:46 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Helicondelta

Norm Chomsky hardest hit. (Supposedly he has the most cited paper in academic history)


23 posted on 07/17/2017 4:47:21 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Helicondelta

Reason, logic, and the scientific method are now racist, sexist, and homophobic. It is all part of the oppressive heteronormative patriarchy. /s


24 posted on 07/17/2017 4:52:49 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Alberta's Child

Ain’t that the truth! Africa, with all its wonderful natural resources, was developed by the white man.

Look at our country. Who developed our natural resources...the white men from Europe or the Native Americans?


25 posted on 07/17/2017 4:57:46 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Helicondelta

Straight White men are refused admission in college, job, government contracting. Straight White men are accused of every crime imaginable. And now this. Enough.


26 posted on 07/17/2017 5:10:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
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To: Helicondelta

trolling for research dollars!


27 posted on 07/17/2017 5:12:42 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Helicondelta

Excuse me morons but I didn’t know if you were X you get a different result than Y or Z...GROW UP LIBERALS!!!


28 posted on 07/17/2017 5:14:26 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: rochester_veteran
"Why am I NOT surprised that this propaganda piece was published in WaPo?"

....it's poo-poo in the wapo..... :)

29 posted on 07/17/2017 5:25:52 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Helicondelta

These inferiors in universities, the only jobs in which they are able to excel , are jealous of those who are more talented and competent than they will ever be. Even with the laws rigged against the achievers, these betas can’t keep up, so they are the constant complainers about their lot in life.


30 posted on 07/17/2017 5:38:45 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: Fred Hayek

I could have taught at the U of Dayton 2-3 more years but I saw stuff like this coming.

Retired asap.


31 posted on 07/17/2017 5:44:07 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Helicondelta
What's needed here is a day without straight white males. Imagine what that would be like.
32 posted on 07/17/2017 5:47:59 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: LS

So, where does academia go from here, other than hell?


33 posted on 07/17/2017 5:54:42 AM PDT by Gritty (Islam is king on a field of corpses - Mark Steyn)
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To: Helicondelta

I decided, in the sixties, to not get get my Phd in history (medieval) because it was clear to me that a conservative historian would be a fast ticket to driving trucks for a living. Academia has lost the chance for a lot of great academics because of their decades long blitzkrieg against conservatives.

So much of what is written now on history is simply total bs.


34 posted on 07/17/2017 6:04:04 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Gritty

I think the universuty system has to collapse entirely.


35 posted on 07/17/2017 6:06:38 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Helicondelta

Please tell my why a mother of at least one son would ever think about voting for a leftist Democrat, let alone actually vote for one.


36 posted on 07/17/2017 6:06:40 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: LeoWindhorse

E-damned-nough. Get me a length of rope, it’s beyond time for a neck-stretching party. God as my witness, I’m gonna commit an act of homicide. It’ll be up to a jury to prove it wasn’t justifiable, ‘cuz I got centuries of history in my favor.


37 posted on 07/17/2017 6:06:45 AM PDT by Viking2002 ("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
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To: Helicondelta
More evidence of how diseased Western academia has become. This is "Geography" today:

Daniel Cockayne, Department of Geography, University of Waterloo

"My research investigates workplace culture and entrepreneurialism in San Francisco's digital media sector. Drawing on perspectives from cultural, economic, feminist geography, and contemporary social theory and philosophy, I explore through interviews and participant observation how people manage and conceptualize their work in the context of 'new media' startup firms that develop websites and applications for smartphones and tablets, as well as other back-end digital products."

His articles/papers include:

"Queering code/space: the co-production of socio-sexual codes and digital technologies"

Carrie Mott, Department of Geography, Rutgers
"Pursuing a more ethical humanity. Micropolitics, race, justice, pedagogy, utopia, love, anarcha-feminism, difference. Geographer at Rutgers."

"My interests sit at the intersection of identity and the political. As a feminist political geographer..."

Her articles/papers include:

Geographies of Whiteness

Feminist Geography

When deranged minds purge all citations of "white males" from the field/study of Geography, that what you have left.
38 posted on 07/17/2017 6:09:29 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Helicondelta
white heteromasculinism....cisgendered .....

The Left is quite creative with its manipulation and mutilation of the language.

39 posted on 07/17/2017 6:10:48 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: rochester_veteran

...”Why am I NOT surprised that this propaganda piece was published in WaPo?”...

So, the WaPo published this which leads one to believe that they are promoting the idea that straight white men must be denied the right to run things, so, one might think that “un-straight” white men would be fine, which leads one to wonder which kind is dominant at the WaPo. Looks like some big time discrimination is going on there.


40 posted on 07/17/2017 6:12:40 AM PDT by jazzlite (,)
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