Things that are wrong can be obvious to individuals and groups of people. It's certainly not obvious to half the country, and that "endless research" is tainted. How long do you get to keep your job in academia if you point out the primary drivers of black misery in the US (out of wedlock births, drugs, and violence) are self inflicted?
To "point out" something (in academia or elsewhere), that something must be a fact.
It's certainly obvious to the most of the U.S., and facts are not subject to a popularity vote regardless.
> "endless research" is tainted
Easily said, but completely unsubstantiated
> How long do you get to keep your job in academia if you point out ...
Can you substantiate that such a thing is true, and then answer your question? One thing that will lose you your job in academia is making intellectually weak, baseless claims. Academia doesn't run an affirmative action program to include all political ideologies; you have to actually have evidence and good arguments.
I seem to recall "scientific consensus" being important on certain things?
It's almost as if the sins of the past affects the lives of people in the present somehow.
In any event, if free will isn't a thing, there's no point in trying to make the world a better place, right, so we should just leave things as they are?
You are suggesting that there isn't widespread racism now? What knowledge or basis do you have for all this?
> if free will isn't a thing
So either there is no free will or there are no systemic problems? Are poverty in Somalia and Kirghistan systemic issues, or is it just a failure of the people there that they don't live like people in the Bay Area? In the U.S., is poverty on Native American reservations, and among almost every group that isn't white men, just due to laziness? Society, health care, schools, the economy, racism, etc. - all have no effect?