Posted on 05/22/2017 7:45:52 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
The National Science Foundation awarded over $200,000 in taxpayer dollars to a professor who plans to research microaggressions.
First reported by The Daily Caller, Mary Atwater, a professor of science and mathematics education at the University of Georgia, received $229,061 to study the implications of microaggressions and look at minority participation in science and math, according to a statement from the University of Georgia.
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What about milliaggressions? Deciagressions?
Sounds like the National Science foundation needs to be defunded if they so easily burn money on utter garbage like this.
What a waste of money...
I could have used my portion of that for something useful.
And this is why colleges must become fewer and better.
Surely billions are needed for this purpose . . . all of them straight into the coffers of the education departments of our universities—which make the gender studies programs seem academically respectable.
Surely billions are needed for this purpose . . . all of them straight into the coffers of the education departments of our universities—which make the gender studies programs seem academically respectable.
The DOD did better in funding basic Research in the 50's and 60's.
Government goons have given out thousands of such ridiculous grants but they would never give their own money for those things.
Government uses other people's money (ours who work) and these gov goons are never careful with other people's money only theirs.
De-fund the stupid national science foundation.This and other unconstitutional abominations have among other things given billions $ in grants to “study” the hoax of global warming. These scientist probably stash most of that money in foreign bank accounts and type out a fake report . Easy way to make $200,000 for writing a term paper.
And don’t forget nano, pico, and femtoaggressions.
I second that emotion. To give "micro aggression" actual recognition by funding a research project about it is ridiculous and panders to the snowflake crowd.
So much full on Leftist aggression, and these idiots wan to study what might possibly be offensive on the right.
Let’s face it. That’s all this is about.
And the insane Money-Give_Away continues on.
And the public debt Goes UP!
The eastern time zone is many times like a separate nation. Georgians have always known to just laugh at the Yorkers who come down to tell us what to do. How sad that now Georgians are paying the Yorkers from Columbia University to boss us around. It is probably part of the policy to get black kids from Atlanta to attend UGA Athens instead of Georgia State in Atlanta. Thus, there has to be outreach involving Yorkers to get blacks to feel like their psychological dispositions are being validated. It is a recruitment tool for more minority enrollment at the Athens campus.
True enough.
It isn’t bad enough this jackass will find new ways to substantiate racism fraudulently. Those he’s targeting will be the ones having to pay for the study.
I’d be OK if he got a micro-grant. Then he could beg for a couple of bucks and get a latte on his way to the office.
Microaggression
A word invented because some selfish *ss felt guilty when he was treated kindly.
May I help you with the door? (You are weak)
Can I get that down off the shelf for you? (You are short)
https://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/activities/ceose/Biographies/atwater.jsp
Minority chemist slides into social studies.
Nah...picoaggressions. If you are white and breathe, you are purposely aggressing.
Would the HISSY I had at the Optometrist Monday count as Microaggression? IDIOT got my reading script WRONG AGAIN. I wear no line progressives add in Astigmatism correction, I need all 3 distances, and they can’t get my reader right. 2 yrs of Dry Eye infections have really changed it; what I was reading at 12 font size now looks like ANTS on the page, I’ve blown up the laptop screen to as large as I can go with out losing the page and still see blurred letters. Putting in those Lubricant eye drops every 10-15 mins because my Tear Duct Plugs fell out, can’t get into the Cornea doc until June 21, I’m in eye pain, just see me long enough to put in Temps till then, they will be melted out by then.
My temper level is now pushed to past HIGH at this point due to EYE PAIN and INCOMPETENCE. Those glasses are NOT CHEAP, and you can’t get them RIGHT? I’ll make you wish you had as you will keep remaking them till you get them right since you have a NO REFUND policy. And can’t make mock glasses to try out a script. Microaggression is going on higher alert.
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