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Why are Gender Studies Departments Permitted?
A Q+A comment exchange from T and M:
IMHO, this statement gets at the crux of the issue. No nefarious "Cultural Marxist" infiltration grand conspiracy is needed to explain why the humanities branch of Western academia has so thoroughly gone to hell over the past 40 years or so.
The existence and proliferation of various nonsensical ___[insert grievance here] studies___ departments at countless well-accredited universities is easily explained by bureaucratic corruption and laziness. A university administration can score quick and easy "diversity points" by simply allowing a a few unhinged radicals the opportunity to spew their ideological bile under the guise of scholarship. On the surface this is great PR for useless, overpaid administrators who are always looking to put on a "forward-thinking" face to deep-pocked donors and prospectivedebt serfs students. The main goal of university administrators and tenured professors is to keep the money, and thus their cushy salaries, flowing in for as long as possible.
However, on the topic of PR, it's not until now that these radical non-disciplines have gone viral and have seen their intellect-free content filter down to the general public and influence mainstream ideology. And all the regular folk are now noticing and are quite shocked about what has up until recent been lingering under the academia hood.
Q: How in the hell is there a PhD's worth of things to learn in gender studies ?
A: There isn’t. The departments exist for universities to buy diversity without the work of real social improvement. Rather than support minorities/women and build to where there’s equal representation in serious fields, they create jobs in nonsense and leave the real fields as-is.
IMHO, this statement gets at the crux of the issue. No nefarious "Cultural Marxist" infiltration grand conspiracy is needed to explain why the humanities branch of Western academia has so thoroughly gone to hell over the past 40 years or so.
The existence and proliferation of various nonsensical ___[insert grievance here] studies___ departments at countless well-accredited universities is easily explained by bureaucratic corruption and laziness. A university administration can score quick and easy "diversity points" by simply allowing a a few unhinged radicals the opportunity to spew their ideological bile under the guise of scholarship. On the surface this is great PR for useless, overpaid administrators who are always looking to put on a "forward-thinking" face to deep-pocked donors and prospective
However, on the topic of PR, it's not until now that these radical non-disciplines have gone viral and have seen their intellect-free content filter down to the general public and influence mainstream ideology. And all the regular folk are now noticing and are quite shocked about what has up until recent been lingering under the academia hood.