David Randall: The Strange World of "Citational Justice"

Oh yeah.

   Philosophy has become a joke in many ways. Just one way is the proliferation of "x justice". Citational "justice," epistemic "justice," hermeneutic "justice," and on and on. And "x justice" is elliptical for "x social justice." Which means: the leftist conception of justice. So, re: "citational justice," you won't find arguments to the effect that you ought simply to cite the sources you actually used. Rather, it's all about "equity" and the citational analog of redistribution. The goal isn't accuracy. It's re-engineering academia along leftist lines, promoting the work of favored demographics, demoting that of evilwhitemales etc.

   Totalitarians gonna totalize.