Hold high the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought to wage the Great ProletarianCultural Revolution to the end--Revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified, ca. 1966
Posted on 06/10/2020 8:37:21 AM PDT by fluorescence
Scientists around the world are striking to raise awareness of institutional and systemic racism against Black academics. This event comes in conjunction with widespread protests against police violence after the killing of George Floyd, who died on 25 May after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground by his neck.
The strike was organised by a group of academics, many of them physicists and astronomers based in the US, and promoted on social media with the hashtags #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM and #Strike4BlackLives. The organisers are encouraging academics across STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields to take the day away from their normal research and instead spend it educating themselves on racial disparities in their field and taking action against racial violence and discrimination. At least 5000 academics based at universities from around the world have joined the course.
“As academics, we do not exist in a vacuum and it is important to recognise the current events: Black members of our communities are being harassed and lynched with little to no consequence, as well as being disproportionately affected by the current pandemic,” says Tien-Tien Yu, a particle physicist at the University of Oregon who has helped organise the event through the Particles for Justice group. “We need to acknowledge that this takes a toll on the well-being of Black academics and that Black Lives Matter.”
The organisers are also hoping that this event will inspire academics to hold their institutions to a higher standard. “We hope everyone comes out of this with concrete steps they can take and ask for from their academic institutions,” says Seyda Ipek at the University of California, Irvine, another particle physicist and member of Particles for Justice. Those steps could include hiring more Black faculty members, deeply interrogating how researchers’ academic work is used...
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Defund academia.
The Party of Science shutting down science.
A day without physicists and astronomers? The horrors.
But I was told that science itself was racist.
Can these scientists define Race? What race is Tiger Woods?
Yep, that’s going to get blacks into Physics and engineering.
Scientists around the world are focusing more on politics than science. Knock me over with a feather
Hold high the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought to wage the Great ProletarianIf we look at the professoriate in most STEM departments you might just conclude that. Not a single black among most of them. So, social justice scientists, do you want to reject that objectivity thing in science or peer reviews to make the STEM departments look more like society?
Dang, and I was just this [-—] close to getting my Gender Studies M.A.
Scientists who would do this are not likely to be good scientists, so “don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.”
Scientists around the world are striking against racism in academia as they prepare to enter a scientific Dark Age ... again.
Isn’t it funny that all of these institutions which have almost exclusively liberal staff and professors are so racist? It’s almost like being racist is a fundamental part of leftism.
Of course, what all of those whiny self-back patters overlook is that the lack of representation of various identity groups in the STEM field is not because of institutional racism, at least not the way they define racism. On the contrary, those liberals are doing everything they can to increase the numbers of non-white male representation in the STEM fields, including the racist/sexist practice of lowering standards to entice less qualified applicants into those fields. Perhaps they need to come to terms with the fact that some people do not choose STEM fields, and that some cultures do not value (and even disparage) academic achievement. Until they recognize and analyze the root causes of why women and certain minorities do not enter STEM fields, and they remain fixated on some ill-defined notion of institutional racism, they are never going to solve the problem (if it can be solved).
In short, you can pretend to be down with the struggle today, but the mob is NEVER satisfied, and you may very well find yourself the next one on the guillotine block.
Robespierre found out the hard way.
All of the liberal whites shouting for "BIPOC justice!" today may find out that their job, salary, position, home, or family is the next target of the mob.
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Unfortunately, Affirmative Action for Scientists leads to the same Ineptness that there is in the ‘leveled’ academics who are now teaching excuses and dishonesty.
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Are there any true academics left? With all the B.S. classes and degrees with “Studies” at the end of them, where is the rigor in academia?
Wanna stop racism in academia? Stop giving blacks passing grades for nothing. Make them earn it. Make them earn getting in and staying in.
I literally watched a black women get a pass in Calculus without turning in any homework or taking any tests. The professor claimed he had to pass her because the school demanded it to keep blacks enrolled due to federal Department of Education requirements.
Nothing like a little hyperbole to start the day!
Seriously: Do words mean nothing now?
Regards,
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