Is equality over?

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[–]jet199 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think there's been a move away from proper research in the social sciences and towards anecdotal evidence.

Take the example of inter racial adoption. The research across many decades and different countries shows that kids adopted by parents of a different race have the same outcomes and the same level of unhappiness with their adopted family as people adopted by parents of the same race.

However from the point of view of many people who were raised in inter racial adoption all their feelings of otheness and rootlessness are due to race. In fact it's the case all adopted kids have these feelings to some extent.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The growth of ethnography and especially, autoethnography, was really the death of the social sciences as rigorous endeavours. Gone was the painstaking collection of data and observations from dispassionate, disinterested researchers, to be replaced by personal anecdotes and unevidenced assertions from activists masquerading as researchers.

It’s obvious why it’s been done, it’s both easier and you don’t get pesky results that upset your carefully crafted assertions and assumptions.

Add to that the frankly disgraceful citation laundering that goes on, editors and reviewers waving their friends’ and accomplices’ articles through peer review without verifying their theses (and acting all indignant when caught out).

So it’s not really any wonder why what was once viewed as “providing a child a much-needed, home with loving parents” has become a vile act of white supremacy and cultural imperialism.