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It's short and worth reading. They come to the defense of one of the most despicably maligned scholars ever targeted by SJWs -- the late great Scott Lilienfeld.

Agree, though in context I think they're indulging in a bit of sarcastic immanent criticism.

"Like race, gender is an important topic. But universities might also reflect on the justification for having something like 20 times as many course on gender than class."

"Today's curricula seem curious: On one hand, they are flooded with courses on race; on the other hand, they marginalize so many prominent Black social scientists."

Same!

"much more attention to the downside of cumulative cultural learning; on the ways informational dependence on others makes an agent vulnerable, and with attention to how mechanisms of exploitation can establish even in otherwise cooperative and egalitarian social worlds"

From the Preface: "a rethink on the role of selection-like processes operating on cultural variation and on the crucial cognitive machinery needed for human social learning"

"it is useful to recall the distinction between ultimate and proximate goals, which is fundamental in understanding biological processes... a specific cognitive trap: the transparency of the goal is mistaken for the transparency of the mechanism"