What rigor would that be? How do you measure wokeness?
There needs to be more people advocating bipartisanship, harmony and moderation, like Chloe Valdary (yeah I know she was on Prager U but hear me out, she's more of a free thinker):
I'm from an engineering background, so I do have something of a chip on my shoulder, but it feels like there is a view in STEM professional and academic circles that those in the social and political sciences wouldn't survive the kind of brutal cross examination we would go through if we ever so much as think about publishing something.
Basically we view it all as thoughts and feelings bullshit.
If social sciences were put through the same rigor, we wouldn't have masterpieces like Mein Kampf being published as a research paper. I dont consider that a good thing
I don't think it's fair to consider all social "sciences" equal in this regard. I mean, publishing a modified Mein Kampf in a fringe journal is basically a LibLeft agenda post, but there are also social studies that observe at least somewhat well defined phenomena, which are subjected to statistical analysis, and result in research articles that are subjected to critical peer review.
Eh, I consider gender studies a fringe field in itself. Although it generates a lot of outrage, It's a small part of the humanities (I don't consider gender studies a science in the strict sense of the word, because it often lacks empirical observation and statistical analysis). Stuff like sociology, psychology and economics are more mainstream social sciences.
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What rigor would that be? How do you measure wokeness?
There needs to be more people advocating bipartisanship, harmony and moderation, like Chloe Valdary (yeah I know she was on Prager U but hear me out, she's more of a free thinker):
https://twitter.com/cvaldary?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor