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Fifth Column

Shut down stem science in college since science is weaponized against Blacks?

2020-06-13

[Campus Reform dot Org]

Professors, researchers, and students in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics field from around the country are taking part Wednesday in the #ShutDownSTEM movement to combat what they say is systemic racism in academia. They argue that the STEM field itself creates technology that is “weaponized against black people.”

One scholar and self-proclaimed “leading expert on wokeness,” James Lindsay, who is best known for his participation in a project that exposed the faulty review process of academic journals by submitting hoax papers that were ultimately published by such publications, tweeted, that "one point of #ShutDownSTEM is to find out who doesn't do it (maybe they're working on a Covid-19 vaccine?) and to use that against them later, just like happened at Evergreen State College with its Day of Absence."

Members of the science academic community are “call[ing]on people who are not Black to spend a day undertaking discussion and action that furthers this work, while providing Black scientists with a day of rest."

It will be a day where they “#ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives."

Scientists and researchers subscribing to the movement will not do any work for the entire day, and any class or research group meetings “should be cancelled [sic] or replaced with discussions with colleagues about anti-Black bias in the world and in academia.” Researchers, professors, and other academics participating are encouraged to use the hashtags #STRIKE4BLACKLIVES, #STRIKEFORBLACKLIVES, and #SHUTDOWNSTEM.

Posted by:3dc

#8 I thought all the STEM students in USA were Han?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-13 15:55

#7 I thought the STEM movement was to attract women and minorities.

creates technology that is “weaponized against black people.

Yeah the music recording industry.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-06-13 15:53

#6 I guess they don't Fucking Love Science! anymore.

The poor nerds riding the nerdcool wave will now have to pretend to be dumb gangstas to survive.

Remember Poindexter, you brought this on yourself.

Posted by: charger 2020-06-13 14:04

#5 I thought America was all about the right to thrive. I've seen absolute retards and village idiots from India and Sri Lanka go there and become millionaires.

They all had to learn to do stuff though. Over time, many of them are ashamed and embarrassed of the shitholes they came from, and will have their children proudly tell you they're genuine Americans and nothing else.

You have to give up tribalism, climb down from your high tree and humble yourself before teachers to learn anything.

Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-13 13:07

#4 YJCMTSU! This is like saying we demand to be stupid and second class intellectually but that you pretend we aren’t out of fear of being racists.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-06-13 13:00

#3 Apparently, in addition to picking our own cotton, we should have also solved our own quadratic equations.

Posted by: SteveS 2020-06-13 12:20

#2 Then there is the somewhat related topics of reparations and Confederate statuary. A former colleague, author, and friend sent me this interesting observation (seemed like it might fit here):

Ref reparations, I wonder if they will take into account that the 1860 Census showed that a higher proportion of free blacks in the South than whites owned slaves!

The Confederacy has been as dead as Julius Caesar for 155 years. So why this hysteria now? It is just the camel’s nose under the tent. The destruction of the remnants of the Confederacy are merely preparatory measures to get people used to what is the next step – the assault on the history and goodness of this country. Already the Founding Fathers are being attacked. For example, Thomas Jefferson because he owned slaves is being cast into the outer darkness. And by extension, everything he did – Declaration of Independence and all his writings on freedom, will be discredited. Think of the 1619 Project championed by that Jacobin-invested NYT that slanders the United States that everything we have accomplished is invalid because of slavery and segregation. It defecates on hour history and ancestors. This is a Marxist plan to destroy this country, and it comes out of a corrupt and malicious academia which has turned our universities into totalitarian nurseries as it has purged itself of any opinions but those of the left. Being a former analyst of the Soviet Union and completely familiar with the way these people behave, I have no doubt what is afoot. So ironically, striking at the ghost of the Confederacy is essentially a strike against the United States itself.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-06-13 07:16

#1 Suggest universities open up departments to inject mouse neural cells into black brains to find out if the mice cells raise their intelligence and lower their need for instant gratification, mindless violence and blame shifting. Could be a Nobel in it for someone.

Posted by: Gleretle Gurly-Brown5685 2020-06-13 01:07

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