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It\u2019s fairly clear that the followers of Progressive ideology will not be happy until they\u2019ve destroyed everything they possibly can. While, moving forward, the only reasonable response will be to not allow Progressives to touch anything, it still saddens me to watch yet another of their victims burn.<\/p>\n
In this case it\u2019s Stanford, a formerly top tier university:<\/p>\n
Stanford Pushes Separate Physics Course For Minority Students<\/a><\/p>\n For thousands of years, universities have been educating humanity. Over a millennium ago, universities existed in China, in Europe, and in Africa. These universities all attempted to address the nature of reality\u2026and never did any of these places deem truth depended upon the color of one\u2019s skin or the status of one\u2019s birthplace. In fact, many of humanity\u2019s great thinkers quickly determined that such things were utterly irrelevant in the pursuit of truth.<\/p>\n And now, the Progressives have decided that the best way to destroy our great universities to send them down paths long ago established as dead ends.<\/p>\n Why, pray tell, do we need a \u201cphysics course for minority students\u201d?<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026a separate physics course in order to ensure retention of \u201cunderrepresented\u201d physics majors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Ah, \u201cretention.\u201d Many of our schools have extensive remediation programs. These programs are well documented as massive failures, around 90% of remedial students fail, get nothing from college. It\u2019s the black secret of higher education<\/a>, and a huge one\u2014over half of students walking onto many college campus are remedial students<\/p>\n The reason why this failure has not been shut down? Retention. \u201cRetention\u201d means \u201ckeeping a student on campus as long as possible in order to suck up as much student loan money as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n And so right off the bat we\u2019re told that Stanford will be destroying itself as a function of the edu-fascists running our campuses. The Educationist administrators love all the money pouring into their pockets, while the Progressive ideologues get to help \u201cunderrepresented\u201d minorities.<\/p>\n I must put \u201cunderrepresented\u201d in quotes because there\u2019s never any study showing what the proper representation should be\u2026no matter what number is uses, the answer is always MOAR. \u201cMinorities\u201d should probably go in quotes as well, since for some reason Chinese and Indian students are never considered, even though they are minorities which appear commonly in the hard sciences like physics.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026two other physics courses focusing entirely<\/strong> on \u201cdiversity\u201d and \u201cinclusion\u201d within the discipline.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n –emphasis added.<\/em><\/p>\n Um\u2026no? Diversity and Inclusion are not concepts in physics, so courses which focus entirely on these concepts cannot be physics courses. Of course, I\u2019m thinking like a scholar, a mode of thought which neither the Edu- nor the -Fascists on our campuses possess.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s hear from Stanford what they have to say about this abominable plan:<\/p>\n \u201cMany students from all backgrounds and identities come to Stanford excited about physics, and this interest does not strongly depend on race or gender. But we lose a larger number of Black, Latinx and Native students, as well as women of all races, in the first two years of undergraduate study,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I tend to agree. Entry level math courses are predominantly female, for example, but I note the number of females drops off each year\u2026senior level courses might well have only one female, if any, in the entire class. And?<\/p>\n People from underrepresented groups often do not feel welcome in physics classes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Nope, or at least that line doesn\u2019t work for the math classes, since they\u2019re not underrepresented initially. But here I am thinking rationally, and that\u2019s just now how the Progressive ball rolls. But the gentle reader really should keep in mind that the \u201cremedial\u201d students in physics are likely composed of many of these students\u2026I just don\u2019t buy this argument, and there won\u2019t be any evidence provided anyway.<\/p>\n To address this problem head on, Wechsler and six other physics faculty members formed the Equity and Inclusion Committee<\/strong>, which also includes students, research staff and postdoctoral scholars.<\/em><\/p>\n Oh no, not an Equity and Inclusion Committee. Anyone familiar with how Progressives operate realizes this is how it always starts\u2026such a harmless name, eh? Who could possibly be against equity or inclusion?<\/p>\n \u201cIn the last five to eight years, there\u2019s been a growing awareness about the importance of identity within the physics community,\u201d said Lauren Tompkins<\/strong>, assistant professor of physics and member of the Equity and Inclusion Committee. \u201cYour identity affects your experience as a physicist and even the physics that you do. If we can acknowledge and understand that, it makes us better physicists.\u201d<\/p>\n I don\u2019t want to come across as a jerk here, but [citation needed]. Seriously, just show me the research that identity politics will improve our understanding of physics, and I promise to try harder about not pointing out how evil it is to waste resources like this.<\/p>\n So let\u2019s take a quick look at one of these courses:<\/p>\n Physics 93SI: Beyond the Laboratory: Physics, Identity and Society is a new student-taught course that explores issues of diversity and culture in physics directly, drawing directly from disciplines as varied as history, anthropology and critical race theory.<\/em><\/p>\n I concede history and anthropology are relevant subjects, but \u201ccritical race theory\u201d is pretty dubious.<\/p>\n I really feel the need to mention that in graduate school, *I* was the minority in nearly every class. I whole reason I picked up Mandarin was the better to communicate with my classmates. It never once occurred to me that I deserved a special course. But I digress.<\/p>\n How is it not obviously racist to create special courses and support services just for certain races? Why does \u201cDiversity\u201d not include people like me? The hypocrisy here is just so\u2026blatant. If any reader can identify anything like this for, say, the athletics programs (where white males are \u201cunderrepresented,\u201d as that word seems to mean, quite consistently), by all means let me know.<\/p>\n Ultimately, this will degrade Physics at Stanford. Any \u201cminority\u201d who graduates from here with a Physics degree will ultimately be viewed as inferior. After all, Stanford considers \u201ccertain\u201d minorities and females so inferior that they need special courses and support to graduate.<\/p>\n www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"