The Society for Personality and Social Psychologystates in its home page that it is an academic scientific societythat aims to advance a field of science.However, that has changed. The organization has taken up anti-racismso intensely that campaigning against racism is its primary purposeand research is secondary.It is proper for any organization to try to avoid racism in itsactivities. It is proper for any organization for research abouthuman beings to try to study a variety of groups of humans, becausenot all humans are alike. In particular, not all societies are alike,and in any one society people with different roles may besystematically different.However, the SPSP seems to have decided that every research project issupposed to campaign against racism, and research which doesn't dothat is not worth publishing.That is going too far, because it means that the ostensible purpose ofthe organization is now of minor importance.I could support an organization whose sole purpose is to campaignagainst racism — depending on what methods it uses to do so. But weshould not convert a scientific organization into a politicalcampaign.