In fairness, the most famous practitioner of this genre went on to be President twice.
Nina Navajas Pertegás, assistant professor and researcher at the UV Department of Social Work and Social Services, has carried out a study on the consequences of fatphobia and the cultural imposition of thinness through her own experience, with a body itinerary that ranges from her childhood to adulthood. This scientific methodology, called autoethnography...
That doubly doesn't make sense. An intrinsically subjective method is not in any sense 'science.' Nor, by definition, can one be one's own 'ethnic group.' The whole concept of ethnicity is collective, not personal nor individual.
Apparently you can get a tenure track job for this nonsense, though.
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You . . . you . . . science denier.
In the literature studies as well as the social sciences there is a lot of jargon employed to show that you know the language. Deconstruction uses punning, redefinition of common words, and creation of terms in order that everyone has to constantly display that they are keeping up with what the hive insists they believe. It's just a form of gatekeeping in order to identify friend and foe. And if you actually believe what you are saying, so much the better!
re Jargon..in the late 1930s, a young French captain named Andre Beaufre was assigned to a support position on the General Staff. What he observed:
"I saw very quickly that our seniors were primarily concerned with forms of drafting. Every memorandum had to be perfect, written in a concise, impersonal style, and conforming to a logical and faultless plan–but so abstract that it had to be read several times before one could find out what it was about…”I have the honour to inform you that I have decided…I envisage…I attach some importance to the fact that…” Actually no one decided more than the barest minimum, and what indeed was decided was pretty trivial."
...and we know how *that* ended.
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