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>> Is it not possible to do research on anything else that maybe doesn’t have anything to do with identity issues?

It's the Society for Personality and Social Psychology ...

You may as well ask is not possible to submit to the Association for Computing Machinery a piece of research unrelated to computing.

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No, it's more like requiring everyone submitting papers to the ACM to explain how their research will result in a more equitable society. That'd exclude a ton of research topics: how is a faster rendering technique going to result in anti-racist outcomes? I guess you cant submit that paper.

Faster renders favour people in socioeconomically deprived areas who lack higher-end resources and thus face a barrier to entry in the field.

Boom. Submit.

Or alternatively, faster renders magnify the advantages of people who can afford graphics cards. After all, the most marginalized people don't even have GPUs, so this research is further oppressing the poor.

For somebody who was born behind the Iron Curtain, this has very strong Soviet vibes.

Back then, it was advisable to stuff quotes by Marx or Lenin into everything, even an article discussing milk production.

Don't worry, Marx is still fair game in Western academia! It has even become fashionable as of late to proclaim oneself a "socialist" (though generally some sort of "socialism with Scandinavian characteristics" is being implied).

Even though the larping socialist dummies here in the US don't know the history of socialism in scandinavia and how Sweden in particular famously abandoned it in the 90s after a 20 year experiment with it where they saw their GDP remain absolutely flat despite almost 10% population growth.

Swedes will proudly claim to be capitalists with healthy social welfare programs.

The tax rates of New Yorkers and Californians are very similar to those across Scandinavia except that the Americans are getting way way less bang for their buck in services for that tax money due to state and local governments that are woefully ineffective. That and Norway/Sweden/Denmark have close to 1/3 public sector employment.

Or you just bend over backwards to make it fit ideologically.

Are you saying there is not a single aspect of personality that is unrelated to race?

That seems pretty racist.

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