It's real win is that it proved too many in academia are only interested in pushing a certain belief, rather than trying to prove its "validity" (which is impossible)...
Climate science, for example, contains more junk than Fred Sanford’s attic.
It exposes the fraud that these “fill-in-the-blank-oppression-studies” departments are. Its hard to call them “disciplines” because their is nothing “disciplined” about how they function, think, do research or teach! In fact they are that exact antithesis of a academic discipline! The sole unspoken reason for their existence was past academic administrative cowardice over the numbers of minorities & women in the faculty lounges as well as in the student body. It was an “instant solution” to a perceived but in reality nonexistent problem. Now academia is paying in loss of prestige and reputation for this foolish decision.
Low and insane standards in academia is nothing new. I’ve heard of courses on tree climbing and writing a thesis on various meanings of the word $hit. You spend your hard earn money on your kid’s education and this is the crap you get.
If anyone is interested in hearing a long-form discussion by the folks that pulled this caper off, they were on the Joe Rogan podcast recently...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
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