Exposing the corruption of "identity studies", or, What a feminist Mein Kampf reveals about our universities, and modern life

Three academics collaborated to expose a philosophical corruption in academia that is poisoning modern life. Submitting twenty  hoax papers to scholarly journals who specialise in what they characterise as "grievance studies" -- fields of 'scholarship' loosely known as “cultural studies” or “identity studies” (so-called "gender studies," for example) -- they managed to have accepted and published papers with "a slew of bewildering positions, including chaining up privileged school children as an educational opportunity and a push to include 'fat bodybuilding’ in professional bodybuilding competitions as a way to nullify fat shaming.

Another paper rewrote a chapter of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, replacing parts of Hitler’s political manifesto with terms including “solidarity allyship”, “neo-liberal feminism” and “'multi-variate matrix of domination”.

Each of the papers were peer-reviewed before being published, meaning they passed the highest level of critical assessment in their fields.

Something has gone wrong in the university, they say, for any of this to be possible, especially within the humanities.

Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established, if not fully dominant, within these fields, and their scholars increasingly bully students, administrators, and other departments into adhering to their worldview. This worldview is not scientific, and it is not rigorous. For many, this problem has been growing increasingly obvious, but strong evidence has been lacking. For this reason, the three of us just spent a year working inside the scholarship we see as an intrinsic part of this problem.

This matters, because, as they argue, the uncontested philosophical corruption of the academies is what is and has been corrupting much of modern life.

Their story -- one of the biggest and most revealing hoaxes perpetrated on the postmodern ivory towers since the Sokal hoax in 1996 -- and frankly one that's also laugh-out-loud funny -- can be read in summary here, in more detail here, and enjoyed on video right here:

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