Gentlemanly and scholarly debate is one thing, but when the thought police come knocking at your door carrying a truncheon, only a vigorous response to THEIR brand of political correctness is appropriate. If you give these bastards an inch, they will take a kilometer.

Here is an example from the centauri-dreams.org comments page, rebuttals to an essay by J Traphagan. The essay is too long to reproduce here, but you are free to read it yourself and decide if it is indeed biased.

Thomas W Hair July 10, 2020, 14:54
While I somewhat agree with Dr. Traphagan, there does seem to be some political code talk going on in his post. The words diversity, culture and government are mentioned multiple times which leads me to believe that this post is not scientific in nature. This sounds like an agenda driven soapbox statement…sorry if my comments are too forward.

John Traphagan July 10, 2020, 15:34
Nope. No political agenda. I’m a cultural anthropologist, so it seems logical that I would use the term “culture” fairly often. Cultural anthropologists are scientists who are interested in the diversity of patterns of behavior, values, and beliefs. Thus, “diversity” seems a fairly logical term to use. And as for “government”, well as far as I know every society on our planet has a government and it’s pretty difficult to talk about the reaction of governments without use of the term “government.” No codes, just the appropriate words for the topic about which I am writing.

Doug Loss July 11, 2020, 7:49
John, your reference to “systemic racism” is a clear code word. This is a term not accepted outside of one particular ideology in our society (although that ideology is nearly ubiquitous in academia). I don’t impute an agenda to you at all, as I know you don’t intend such. But it’s important to realize that we all have implicit biases in how we view the world and society around us, and to try to recognize those biases in ourselves as well as in others.

Its funny how "systemic racism" is a codeword, but calling it a codeword, is not.