Thursday, May 25, 2017

Your tax dollars at "work"-----Black Professor Tells White Men to Quit Their Jobs: 'Probably Taking Up Room That Should Go to Someone Else'

Black Professor Tells White Men to Quit Their Jobs: 'Probably Taking Up Room That Should Go to Someone Else':
"If you're a successful “white cis man,” University of Hawaii assistant mathematics professor Piper Harron has a message for you — quit your job to make room for other, apparently more deserving, people.
The “liberated mathematician,” as Harron calls herself on her web page, wrote in a recent blog post for the American Mathematical Society that white males should simply “get out the way”:
Not to alarm you, but I probably want you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion. Statistically speaking, you are probably taking up room that should go to someone else.

If you are a white cis man (meaning you identify as male and you were assigned male at birth) you almost certainly should resign from your position of power.
That’s right, Harron wants you to quit your job or at least demote yourself. If you find the prospect of either option “too difficult,” she has a few suggestions:
Well, as a first step, at least get off your hiring committee, your curriculum committee, and make sure you’re replaced by a woman of color or trans person. Don’t have any in your department? HOW SHOCKING.
And she doesn't stop with white men. White women are a problem as well.
Noting that “having white cis women run the world is no kind of solution,” she included the following chart in her post — showing that 53% of white women voted from President Trump in last year's election, as confirmed by the New York Times.

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