Sunday, June 17, 2018

The goal ain't education, it's indoctrination-----Identity Warriors Have Infiltrated the Sciences. Here's the Damage They're Doing.

Identity Warriors Have Infiltrated the Sciences. Here's the Damage They're Doing
"In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians, and race hustlers, it’s not long before the magical words “diversity” and “inclusiveness” drop from their lips.
Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well.
This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas. 
We’re told how it’s doing so in science, in an article by Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, titled “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences.”
Mac Donald says that identity politics has already taken over the humanities and social sciences on American campuses.
Waiting in the wings for a similar takeover are the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math.
...Universities and other institutions have started watering down standards and requirements in order to attract more minorities and women.
Some of the arguments for doing so border on insanity.
A math education professor at the University of Illinois wrote that “mathematics itself operates as whiteness.”
She says that the ability to solve algebra and geometry problems perpetuates “unearned privilege” among whites..."
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