Affilia, a peer-reviewed journal of women and social work, formally accepted the trio’s hoax paper “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism.” The second portion of the paper is a rewrite of a chapter from “Mein Kampf.” Affilia’s editors declined my request for comment.
But in a statement issued Thursday, the editors of Affilia said the paper had been evaluated by two reviewers and had undergone two rounds of edits. “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. In the authors’ own words, ‘the original language and intent of Mein Kampf has been significantly changed to make this paper publishable and about feminism.’ Indeed, the article as a whole espouses social justice and anti-oppression, ideals entirely at odds with fascism. While the editors would have recognized the ideas from Mein Kampf, they did not recognize paraphrases shorn of that ideology,” the statement said. It added that Affilia was “investigating changes to current protocol to improve accountability processes.”