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Prejudice and discrimination based on epistemological commitments: treating those who use different methods of knowing as inherently inferior, irrational, or dangerous. Ideoepistemological bigotry often targets qualitative researchers, indigenous knowledge keepers, religious believers, and anyone who values intuition or tradition alongside empirical data. It refuses to engage with the content of other epistemologies, dismissing them wholesale as “unscientific” or “pre‑rational.” It is the epistemic version of ethnic cleansing, seeking to eliminate other ways of knowing rather than coexist with them.
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