Writing on Minding the Campus, Bucknell professor Alexander Riley blows the whistle on the racket of “research” on white privilege.
It’s easy. You don’t actually have to do any research — just find any old reason to claim that your opinion that white people don’t deserve to be as well off as they (some of them, at least) are. Write up your “findings” and some journal will publish it. No scrutiny. No tough questioning. The “disciplines” where this research is popular don’t work that way.
Here’s a slice:
The whole house of cards collapses utterly as soon as you follow the paper trail. How, then, can it be that such a frivolous, mendacious enterprise has become so powerful? We might well wonder how it is even able to unironically label itself “research” when it obviously does not meet basic academic standards. Research implies a systematic and objective investigation into a matter with no preconceived destination in mind. That is clearly not what we are dealing with here.
Higher education has become a feeding trough for untalented people who know how to get ahead by saying the right babble.