Scholars work at ‘Decolonizing Light’ to combat ‘colonialism in contemporary physics’

The College Fix ^ | December 14, 2022 | DANIEL NUCCIO - NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

[The_Media_never_lie]

A group of scholars at Concordia University in Montreal have dedicated themselves to “Decolonizing Light.”

The effort is not about banning flashlights, but rather advancing other ways of knowing about light, science and physics.

The group’s tagline is “Tracing and countering colonialism in contemporary physics.”

The effort, funded by the Canadian government, seeks both to explore “ways and approaches to decolonize science, such as revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledges” and to develop “a culture of critical reflection and investigation of the relation of science and colonialism,” according to the project’s website.

Led by Tanja Tajmel, a special equity, diversity and inclusion advisor to Concordia’s dean, core members of the group also include physicist Ingo Salzmann and Associate Professor of First Peoples Studies Louellyn White.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Does it seem to you that the lunacy in the world is accelerating? Would it take all the mass of the earth to accelerate lunacy to the speed of light? I fear this type of lunacy is already traveling at the speed of light!

[No Party Affiliation]

The left is hellbent on taking us all backwards.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Please tell me this is the Babylon Bee!

[Rummyfan]

Unfortunately it is not.

[PLMerite]

I’m pretty sure this is humor. At least, I hope it is.

[NorthMountain]

such as revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledges

Not all cultures are equal. Some cultures never managed to invent the wheel, much less work out what sane people know as Maxwell's Equations.

This is not an effort to improve science, it is an effort to DESTROY science.

Western Civilization did more than just invent the wheel. It also invented the rope and the lamppost.

[dsrtsage]

Nobel Laureate in physics, 2030

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledges"

Hogwash. There is only one physics. And you better be really, really good at math. You can't even do most rudimentary Newtonian physics without calculus.

This "indigenous" baloney is pure nonsense, pure mass insanity.

[Vision]

So much funding is available that the system rots.

[ConservativeInPA]

We’re going backwards.

[Codeflier]

At this point...Burn baby burn!

[Regulator]

Un-physicing the Colonized!

Let them sleep in unheated thatched huts this winter!

The heat equation is so um, White...

[NorthMountain]

Hate to break it to you ...

Actually, no. I don't. Hate to, that is ...

This is absolutely 100% real, and these bipeds are deadly serious.

[Regulator]

Maxwell’s Equations?!

Gradients and other stuff??

Hell they dont even get V=IR

[hinckley buzzard]

They tried this before, when the feminazis were touting “women’s way of knowing” as an alternative to the “patriarchal” scientific method. Didn’t work out very well. The “indigenous way of knowing” doesn’t look too promising either.

[NorthMountain]

Show me the "indigenous culture" that produced anything nearly as useful as these statements:

Bobbing and weaving and chanting "Ooogaboogabooga!!! Ungabuuunbabuuuunga!!!" is't quite the same, is it?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I think that we should have input from the Sentinelese on this subject, if they don’t kill us all first.

[fretzer]

While I’m certain that we as a civilization could learn many things from indigenous people, physics is not one of them.

[PGR88]

A group of scholars at Concordia University in Montreal have dedicated themselves to “Decolonizing Light.”

Its what you do when your department has money to spend, but your diversity recruits are not very good at math or physics.

[ptsal]

This could be the outfit that Sam Brinton was seeking.