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"Alas, the world we engineers envisioned as young students is not quite as simple and straightforward as we had wished because a phalanx of social justice warriors, ideologues, egalitarians, and opportunistic careerists has ensconced itself in America’s college and universities. The destruction they have caused in the humanities and social sciences has now reached to engineering."--Indrek Wichman |
Alabama State Troopers Assaulting Selma Marcher
As a young man growing up in a peaceful, multicultural Santa Clara, California, I remember the shock that came when Selma, Alabama's "Bloody Sunday" was televised. I couldn't believe something like that could happen in the United States. It was but one of the many battles going on as American blacks fought for an end to segregation, a movement to racial equality.
Perhaps you can imagine my shock when, a mere fifty-two years later, to learn that one Nashia Whittenburg, the new Director of Multicultural Student Affairs at North Carolina State University, proudly announced her plan to offer segregated housing to "women of color." Toni Airaksinen has the story.
What is wrong with these people?
If you think that the sciences would logically be immune from infection by academic social justice fascists, you're in for a shock. Mark Tapson explains:
Tapson dissects a column from Purdue's Engineering Professor Indrek Wichman, who wrote:
Once I became a professor, I never worried about how “socially connected” the education we provided at Michigan State for engineering students was. With trepidation, I read on to see if I was missing something important. I learned to my dismay that Purdue’s engineering education school rests on three bizarre pillars: “reimagining engineering and engineering education, creating field-shaping knowledge, and empowering agents of change.”
All academic fields shape knowledge and bring about change, but they don’t do that by “empowering” the agents of change. And what does “reimagining engineering” mean? The great aerodynamicist Theodore von Kármán said that “a scientist studies what is, while an engineer creates what never was.” In engineering, we apply scientific principles in the design and creation of new technologies for mankind’s use. It’s a creative process. Since engineering is basically creativity, how are we supposed to “reimagine creativity”? That makes no sense.
And, just for the record, engineers “empower” themselves and, most important, other people, by inventing things. Those things are our agents of change.
If you want a clear understanding of the damage being done to our universites and our youth by leftist activists, I urge you to read Tapson's piece, or, if you want even more detail, Wichman's.
Bwahahaha of the Day Segment
Pampered Pussy-Hat-Wearing Sarah Lawrence snowflakes are requesting money for, er, their “emotional labor.” Really. Robert Kraychik has that one.
Let's wallow...
Less than one month into the job, North Carolina State University's new Director of Multicultural Student Affairs has big plans, including a new housing option exclusively for 'women of color.'
Nashia Whittenburg plans to submit the proposal by next February, describing it as a refuge for female minority students to "deal with some of the microaggressions you might have had to deal with throughout your entire day."
Leftist students at Sarah Lawrence College - which costs about $54,000 per year without residency or health insurance; about $65,000 with residency and health insurance - recently called on peers to pay female feminist campus agitators for their “emotional labor.”
Targeted student donors were asked to contribute to seventeen Sarah Lawrence College students via Venmo, an online money-transfer service; most of the intended benefactors are non-white students.
Peace-Loving Evergreen Fascists Studying for Exams
A professor at Evergreen State College described how she was stalked, cursed at and berated by student protesters who demanded she join their protest. The professor described the series of events that took place in a letter she sent to other faculty members about a week after the protests erupted.
"The purpose seems not to be how best to train new engineers but to let everyone know how engineers continue to 'oppress' women and persons of color."
There are several other reasons why we got into engineering. One of them was the absence of what I describe here as “social engineering,” where the professor/instructor is interested not so much in solving technical problems as in setting the world right—in his or her opinion.
A second and related reason is that engineering (and the sciences generally) should be, like the scales of justice, blind. Engineering does not care about your color, sexual orientation, or your other personal and private attributes. All it takes to succeed is to do the work well.
 | @dragon40, Certified Curmudgeon “The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”--Carlo M. Cipolla |  |