Scientific rationality has failed minorities and earned their warranted suspicion.

Evidence

With regard to science, minorities are perfectly right when they are suspicious. Up to now, it has not served them so well, and such great authorities as Freud have repeatedly, implicitly and explicitly, stated its impotence to solve the pertinent problems of society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 386

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Adorno and Horkheimer’s critique of instrumental reason and the dialectic of Enlightenment developed elsewhere in the book. — connects to: Stereotypes survive contradictory evidence when they emerge from rationalization rather than hasty judgment.; Scientific rationalism shades into the very faith it claims to dismiss; Racial categories seemed inevitable because host sciences claimed empiricism. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 585 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Stereotypes survive contradictory evidence when they emerge from rationalization rather than hasty judgment.; Scientific rationalism shades into the very faith it claims to dismiss; Racial categories seemed inevitable because host sciences claimed empiricism. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 585 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Racist science consequences arise from innocent assumptions, not bad intentions #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1572