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by BurnGpuBurn 2349 days ago
This reminded me of the guys who got a chapter of "Mein Kampf" accepted as a paper. [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20181003015636/https://www.wsj.c...

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As I recall, that wasn't quite the case. It was a highly edited version of Mein Kampf. Quoting https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_hoax :

> Affilia put out a statement in response, noting, "The article does not espouse racism, anti-Semitism, or any other fascist ideology; the parallels to Mein Kampf were limited exclusively to word choice in the descriptive text." ...

> David Banks compared the article's text to that of the Mein Kampf chapter it was supposedly based on and "couldn’t find a single phrase that matched." He also pointed out that the message of the hoax article was quite different from that of Mein Kampf: "This isn’t an article demanding concentration camps for men, it’s just a pedantic argument about neoliberalism."