Physics Is Now Racist

Isaac Newton was a known klansman. It makes sense.

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Remember the group of people wrote fake academic papers, but included enough grievence buzz words and they all got published?

This looks like one of those.

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The trio set out with the intent to expose problems in what they called "grievance studies", referring to academic areas where they claim "a culture has developed in which only certain conclusions are allowed ... and put social grievances ahead of objective truth".[1][2][3] As such, the trio, identifying themselves as leftists and liberals, described their project as an attempt to raise awareness for what they believed was the damage that postmodernism and identity politics-based scholarship was having on leftist political projects, but mainly Science and Academia.

Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose wrote 20 articles that promoted deliberately absurd ideas or morally questionable acts and submitted them to various peer-reviewed journals. Although they had planned for the project to run until January 2019, the trio admitted to the hoax in October 2018 after journalists from The Wall Street Journal revealed that "Helen Wilson", the pseudonym used for their article published in Gender, Place & Culture, did not exist. By the time of the reveal, 4 of their 20 papers had been published; 3 had been accepted but not yet published; 6 had been rejected; and 7 were still under review. Included among the articles that were published were arguments that dogs engage in rape culture and that men could reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys, as well as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf rewritten in feminist language.[2][4] The first of these had won special recognition from the journal that published it.

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I reject anything on it's face that uses the term "whiteness" as a pejorative.

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I reject anything on it's face that uses the term "whiteness" as a pejorative.

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True enough. Besides, we're told that there is no such thing as "white culture" in one breath, then informed that not only is "white culture" a pervasive influence over everything, but it's consuming all other cultures like Galactus with the next.

It doesn't work and play well with women either.

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We used to call this "racism" in America, and we frowned on it.

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My favorite hurdle to watch the easily-offended clear is when you challenge them to differentiate between "Racism", "Bigotry" and "Prejudice".

I dug up the paper. Here's more from it:

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Critical Race Theory names that racism and white supremacy are endemic to all aspects of U.S. society, from employment to schooling to the law [1–7]. We see the outcomes of this in, for example, differential incarceration rates, rates of infection and death in the era of COVID, and police brutality. We also see the outcomes of this in physics.

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These people are supposedly "scientists" but do not seem to understand the concept of variables or confounding factors. To them the fact more blacks are incarcerated means "racism." More blacks died of COVID because "racism." And they don't even provide any evidence that "police brutality" is more pervasive against blacks than others.

They absolutely refuse to look at any other variables, correlations or possible causes. For example, could it be that more blacks are in prison because they commit more crime? Could it be that more blacks died of COVID because more of them have preexisting health conditions? Could it be that they ignored CDC guidance in regard to COVID protocols? Could it be that they refused to get vaxxed more than any other group?

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For example, the American Physical Society [8] reports that whereas almost 16% of the U.S. population aged 20–24 years is Black, only 3% of bachelor’s degrees in physics and 1.8% of doctorate degrees are awarded to Black students. This is in contrast to about 73% of the U.S. population aged 20–24 being white, and 72% and 75%, respectively, of bachelor’s and doctorate degrees being awarded to white students.

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First of all, I contest their numbers. There is no way in hell white people are 73% of the 20-24 demographic. (If you count Hispanics as "white," then maybe). Non-Hispanic Whites are barely 60% of the population in America according to the 2020 census.

But even if we accept their numbers for physics degrees, it tells us absolutely nothing about "racism." There could be a million reasons blacks don't care about physics.

This is not science, it's propaganda and activism. Full stop. If this were a paper trying to explain some medical phenomenon, it would never pass peer review.

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My favorite hurdle to watch the easily-offended clear is when you challenge them to differentiate between "Racism", "Bigotry" and "Prejudice".

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My favorite was when Ibram X Kendi was asked to define "racism", and he used the word "racist" in the definition.

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I love the turn to the camera the African guy does when he says "collection of racist policies"