Glynn Custred: Turning Anthropology from Science into Political Activism

Political correctness, anthropology style.  (from 2016)

Anthropology is a hotbed of PC/wokeness.

Don't know what it looks like from the inside, but from the outside their flagship crusade is in support of the virtually incoherent idea that races are "social constructs." In fact, races are almost certainly biological natural kinds. There are a lot of complications that I've discussed before. But that's the lead hypothesis, once you filter out the conceptual confusion and political bullshit.

They have, of course, simply labeled this view racist.

Which is absurd.

But I don't care so much about the particular outcome of that disagreement.

The really important thing is to oust political correctness from the debate--to make it a scientific (and to some extent philosophical) question about evidence and truth.

Let the specific outcome be what it may.

The current orthodoxy in Anth is bullshit, based largely on textbook fallacies. It survives because of the fog of confusion that social constructionism casts over every debate it touches...and because the biological kinds view has simply been decreed racist. That is: it has been decreed politically incorrect.

This is, of course, Lysenkoism, the name for PC when it manifests itself in science.