It is spreading to all areas of life, across most of Western culture. Few countries are escaping or avoiding it. No subject is immune. Not even the glory of popular imagination, Science™.
I'll say out loud that H Holden Thorp is an ass. He is either an opportunist or a cultist. I'm willing to believe either, but I'd bet the suck-up side. My guess is he's crammed his nose up the nether region of politics in order to signal his virtue.
But I allow he may be, like many of the useful idiots on our screens, a useful idiot himself. These days you just don't know.
Before we get to Throp's calculated maneuver to keep or enhance his job, here's something similar from the American Geophysical Union, an organization devoted to politics.
The article is "#GeoGRExit: Why Geosciences Programs Are Dropping the GRE". Before I tell you, can you guess why?
Yes! White supremacy!
Geoscience graduate programs are increasingly abandoning the controversial test as an admissions requirement, a welcome development for equity and inclusion in the field. How can your school be next?This is included only to prove to you, once again, how political coronadoom was — and still is. Machinations will be blamed on it for at least eighteen months past the last attributed death.
A lot is changing this year in higher education. Amid the ongoing pandemic caused by the infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), universities and graduate schools have had to adapt to entirely online instruction and have canceled fieldwork, closed labs, and faced declining revenues.
Anyway, they want to drop the GRE — for which I offer no defense and do not care about — "as a step toward equity and inclusivity in graduate admissions and education", asinine ideas we do care about.
Quote: "...the test is biased against women compared to men and against people of color compared to white and Asian people [Miller and Stassun, 2014]". Note the faux blessing the academic-style reference gives the sentence.
By "biased" they mean men and whites and Asians outdo other groups, which is impossible under the cult's belief in Equality. It is forbidden to think the consistent superior performance of white and Asian men on this quantitative test indicates genuine ability. Superior performance can thus only be due to nefarious causes. Whitness, and we suppose Asianness and testosterone, rays emanate from test takers, which depresses (somehow) the abilities of the female and "of colored".
We can't yet eliminate whites and Asians or men, but we can eliminate the tests. This is the only way to get more "black bodies" into Science. Which is to say, quotas.
This will necessarily cause inflation in science — and it already has, long ago, by pushing to up the percentage of non-males.
Back to to virtue-signalling Thorp:
It is easy to think that the problem is isolated to individual racists in the community and in the government, and that the scientific enterprise is immune to racism...Thorp, like I do, believes the question is rhetorical. We differ on the expected answer.
The U.S. scientific enterprise is predominantly white, as are the U.S. institutions that Science's authors are affiliated with. The evidence of systemic racism in science permeates this nation. Why are so few Science authors from historically black colleges and universities?
It is time for the scientific establishment to confront this reality and to admit its role in perpetuating it. The first step is for science and scientists to say out loud that they have benefited from, and failed to acknowledge, white supremacy. And then science and scientists finally need to listen to, and make space for, people of color to lead laboratories that publish great science and produce influential scientists, run institutions and their scientific units, and propel Science and other journals to promote structurally underfunded scientists and areas of science.In other words, hard quotas will be implemented.
Science is already on the ropes for imbibing far too much politics. Global warming, coronadoom, most of sociology, psychology, and on and on. These quotas will happen, and when they do, math and science, as we have warned many times, will be redefined into whatever it is the quota hires can do. Feelings, self-discoveries, anti-white-supremacy. Black holes are white supremacist. All difficult subjects will be under grave suspicion.
"Briggs, you fool. That's paranoia. People aren't going to give on science so easily. Look at all the great things it did!"
They're giving up on everything else great. Iconoclasm is now official policy.
Then there's this: The hot trending Twitter tag "#ShutDownSTEM".
All the best people are doing it:
The article that links to opens:
White supremacy is baked into science and academia, from racist language in textbooks to a culture that excludes Black scientists from innovating and advancing at the same pace as their colleagues. But rather than more milquetoast statements and diversity initiatives, researchers want action. Organizers are asking the scientific community to participate in a work stoppage on Wednesday, June 10 to bring attention to racism in the world of research...We warned you for years scientists and mathematicians were not immune from the mob. It has now come for them. Hard to be too sorry for them. They had the chance to fight back, but were too fearful and too cocky.
Labs will still refer to various pairs of equipment as "master" and "slave," while the most commonly discussed milestone in quantum computing is "quantum supremacy;" few, if any publishing outlets are actively working to evaluate this kind of language.
Not uncoincidentally, Lavoisier's last words were "I can't breathe."
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Late addition SJWs are looting arXiv.org today This is from our friend Lubos.
Arxiv surrendered to the mob.
Reader Comments
Most certainly wont. I think the radical lefties are done. They have cooked their goose if you know what I mean.
I hope some common sense and sanity is restored, before it gets really ugly.
The answer to racism? Stop making everything about racism!
Workplaces these days talk a lot about diversity and equality, including my own. But I don't think that way. I don't care where someone is from or how much their skin is pigmented. I care about how good of a job they're going to do. Do you have the skills and experience to fill the role? Yes? Great! You're hired. You don't? Nope. Sorry. That's the ONLY thing I take into account. The result of that is I have people from all over the place on my team... If that was the mindset most people adopted, racism would end. So who keeps racism alive? The people who are screaming racist at everything.
R.C.
*Contra! 'soy boys ' (E.g., Micron, Queen Trudeau, Mayor Frey, et al. ad nauseam. )
P.s., mistakenly posted this as Republicans article first.Sorry.
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Truth.
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And what did Gordy do after the 1967 Detroit riots? He GTFO of Detroit. And Detroit, of course, has never recovered.
2) I didn't know that was the death* knell. Thanks.
R.C.
*Detroit's Alzheimer's' Bell a-tolling? Like this? Poe, The Bells. Free at: [Link]
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Of course, that whole video is yet another reason pointing out the absurdity of the anti-meritocracy of the idiot BLM/BM.
The way they deal with that is, to the extent they are forced to face facts, trotting out all of the weak and wasted debate/ logical fallacies, most commonly, ad hominems, straw man, et al.
"Same as it ever was"*, I guess.
R.C.
*[Link] I saw them in Gainesville, Florida around 84-85 and was surprised as hell, because I had thought that I wasn't into 'punk' / 'new wave' music (unlike thee) and yet they just kicked ass!
RC
On the one hand, there's an inability to recognise "quality", an inability to see "the divine spark" in things/people/whatever (inc. art/music, white people/black people/yellow people/brown people, etc) and having to resort to tick boxes/quotas/whatever in order to approximate "quality". On the other hand, the tick-boxes are rigged, so the Organic Portals stand a better chance of getting ahead of their natural position, and that ain't no white people/back people thing, it's more of a situation where people with 'the divine spark' of any origin are constantly being seduced into "keeping down with the Joneses" for what they imagine to be their own survival's sake.
R.C.
Being constantly seduced with the idea that it's good for your survival prospects to become less conscious .
Which of course, it ain't.
R.C.
*I had this happen re the CV1984 lockdown with a female friend who I long ago completely awakened to the available truths of 9/11/2001, et al., but who was so 're-scared' by the MSM, gov., society, et al., that she seemed to have almost (not completely) lost her ability to trust even me! RC! [Link] ; and,
"Our true enemy has not yet shown his face." Id.
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I imagine this was a major factor in how Gurdjieff and his students managed to survive Nazi occupied Paris completely unsullied.
Also interesting as regards the Bossa Nova culture in Brazil, which at least time-line-wise, was crushed by a military coup.
HFL 'Fruits of Former Civilisations' off-the-top-of-my-head Motown 5
Marvin Gaye - Lucky Lucky Me....[Link]
The Marvelettes - I'll Keep Holding On....[Link]
Kim Weston - I'm Gonna Make it Up To You....[Link]
Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I - The Velvelettes....[Link]
The Temptations - Forever In My Heart....[Link]
The musicians phrase "to nail your drum kit to the floor", meaning to find the sweet spot and stick to it, comes from Detroit's "Hitsville USA" basement studio, where they quite literally nailed the drum kit to the floor.
In the mid-sixties the paper wrappers on Motown 45's bore the legend "It's What's In The Groove That Counts", which is as true of people as it is of anything else.
Why?
Gotta go. Good night.
R.C.
It's long been the same story. We've learned enough to know that all wars are fought by the misinformed, supported by the uninformed, against others similarly un/misinformed, and are, in truth, ultimately fought at the behest of the Bill Gates and Rothschilds of the world. (Perhaps only for the Rothschilds? All I know is I don't know.)
I guess we should count ourselves lucky. I don't believe that there has ever been a generation better equipped to both find the truth, accept and 'handle' it, and be able to spread the word about logical, material conclusions regarding how best to approach the future given that knowledge. Likewise, we have all these 'too quick to have been significantly edited' videos from multiple concurrent sources, which are damn near realtime access to the closest damn thing to being there at those instances one's self. Again, I say: "It's time to buy the 'Good Cruise Ship (Loli) SOTT'; (not joking. I can commit $100K) and move out!
And, Cap'n RC adds, not only are critters welcome, they're mandatory! (Facetious, there.)
R.C.
2) Any 'maritimey' folks? Admiralty folks? Mariners? ALL input is welcome!
R.C.
A few more SOTTites and maybe we can do this one! (Granted, it's almost as old as me, and in Kazakhstan, but hey! it's cheap!) [Link]
Or, here's one built in 73 which was sold for scrap. (Of course they don't list for how much.) [Link]
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Do you read Italian?
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Now I'm done.
R.C.
I just now first read the term for the high powered Mexican stations, 'border blasters'. We always called them, as the song later did, "Mexican Radio." I best remember them from 78 - 86 in SoCal. Growing up here, there simply weren't enough people to justify the expense and hoopla of such.
I likewise had no idea of that entire UK issue, other than being aware of Radio Lux. as being similar to Mexican Radio.
To the extent one can trust a trailer, that film looks funny as hell. FWIW, wee wee pee pee aahhh says that it got panned, etc. I'll let you know if/when I watch it. Do you recommend it?
R.C.
P.s., I didn't recognize that name. PSH ruled in The Big Lebowski!
RC
“52 card pick-up”
All conversations are in the public domain .
With the diversity of experiences behind us which cards lead to the best future?