The Ethics of Genocide Scholarship and New Trends in Rhetorical Manipulation in Genocide Studies
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article uses a more than decade of written and oral discussion with Herb Hirsch as the basis for an articulation of key concepts developed by Hirsch and an evaluation of the state of genocide scholarship and critical analysis of certain trends in the field. The dialogic Herbcratic Method disrupts normal, institutionalized, sterile genocide studies production by introducing challenging interventions against generally accepted viewpoints that are problematic and the over academicization of the field and supports a vibrant intellectual approach to addressing genocides of the past and preventing genocide in the future. This includes both a critique of claims of disinterest in scholarship and a rejection of the exclusion of interested activist-scholarship, as well as a defense of a philosophically-grounded yet workable notion of “objectivity” for genocide studies to be achieved through careful efforts. The article elaborates on Hirsch’s exposure of policy recycling regarding genocide prevention and the damaging consequences of apparently innocuous if annoying use of jargon in policy proposals. Building on Hirsch’s critical framework, the article exposes a new post-denial trend in perpetrator rhetorical falsification and manipulation, fabrication of false claims of genocide. False claims of genocide have the devastating effect of forcing victims of actual genocide and related oppression to appear to be genocide deniers when they refute the false claims.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it