Saturday, August 1, 2020

More evidence of academic rot

"Duped academic journal publishes rewrite of ‘Mein Kampf’ as feminist manifesto".

Well played! Hats off to the imagination and ingenuity of the three pranksters who pulled off this, and several other, publishing coups.

Note: this story is a bit old, but I missed it first time around.

3 comments:

bruce said...

Reminds me of Michelle Obama's final college paper about all her struggles in life, which I tried to read once and got a few pages in, just to see what she wrote like. Umm, it was not impressive, shall we say.

I guess she could have taken tips from Der Fuhrer on how to write that kind of thing.

Spiny Norman said...

Someone once said, and not entirely in jest, that her Master's thesis was just cobbled-together lecture notes. Basically regurgitating what her professors told her, and they loved it.

Paco said...

I read enough of her thesis to know that she is a person with a mediocre mind and an inadequate education in basic writing skills. She and her husband both rode the gravy train of affirmative action privilege, so it is nauseating to hear them complain about the allegedly in-born privilege of white people. They see their progress in life as being purely the result of their own brilliance, not the result of the entitlement extended by their political pimps that it really is.