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An even more active and extreme version of the Ivory Court—not merely adjudicating knowledge claims but actively policing, persecuting, and purging those who violate orthodoxies. Where the ivory court judges, the ivory inquisition investigates, condemns, and punishes. It hunts heretics—not just those who are wrong, but those who challenge fundamental tenets, who ask forbidden questions, who refuse to bow to disciplinary authority. The ivory inquisition operates through public denunciations, coordinated campaigns, institutional discipline, career destruction, and the systematic exclusion of the unorthodox from the community of the legitimate. It's the academy's shadow self, the institution that exists not to seek truth but to defend its own power to define it.
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