{"id":13393,"date":"2017-05-11T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13393"},"modified":"2017-05-11T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T01:22:10","slug":"academic-thought-criminal-runs-afoul-of-minitru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/05\/11\/academic-thought-criminal-runs-afoul-of-minitru\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Thought-Criminal Runs Afoul of MiniTru"},"content":{"rendered":"

     An academic, using the standard pseudo-logic of Feminist and other grievance studies departments, has been declared an unperson by the modern academic self-declared MiniTru<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“In late March, Hypatia, a feminist-philosophy journal, published an article titled ‘In Defense of Transracialism’ by Rebecca Tuvel, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, as part of its spring 2017 issue. The point of the article, as the title suggests, is to toy around with the question of what it would mean if some people really were \u2014 as Rachel Dolezal claimed \u2014 ‘transracial,’ meaning they identified as a race that didn\u2019t line up with how society viewed them in light of their ancestry.<\/p>\n

“Tuvel structures her argument more or less as follows: (1) We accept the following premises about trans people and the rights and dignity to which they are entitled; (2) we also accept the following premises about identities and identity change in general; (3) therefore, the common arguments against transracialism fail, and we should accept that there\u2019s little apparent logically coherent reason to deny the possibility of genuine transracialism.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     The article was retracted<\/a>, despite being peer reviewed.<\/p>\n

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     This happened NOT because of any claim of academic dishonesty or fraud, but because it was doubleplusungood, as an “Open letter to Hypatia<\/a>” noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It has been retracted for reinforcing white and cisgender privilege https:\/\/t.co\/5cQnR6LReg<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ft09ovIXtg<\/a><\/p>\n

— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) May 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n