BLM is Anti-Academia!

[Cow Poke]

Thanks for Diogenes for brining this to my attention...

About — #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM

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[Diogenes]

Here's a link to the Twitter #ShutdownSTEM

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Thanks for Diogenes for brining this to my attention...

About — #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM

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Are you sure this wasn't more satire?

[Cow Poke]

Are you sure this wasn't more satire?

Take a look at the website and see for yourself. If it is satire, they're doing an awfully good job of supporting it.

[Cow Poke]

Are you sure this wasn't more satire?

OK, you made me do some more checking, and I found this on the shutdownstem.com/about website - bolding mine

#ShutDownAcademia and #ShutDownSTEM is an initiative from a multi-identity, intersectional coalition of STEM professionals and academics taking action for Black lives. ShutDownSTEM, Particles for Justice and VanguardSTEM are in close collaboration, and working together to create lasting change. These efforts build on-- and would not be possible without-- the long history of Black activism, scholarship, and leadership in the fight for Black lives.

Academia and STEM are global endeavors that sustain a racist system, where Black people are murdered. No matter where you physically live, you impact and are impacted by this moment in history. This is not exclusive to the United States. We must all work against anti-Black racism.

But when you go to the VanguardSTEM website they claim is in close collaboration, you see (presently at least) stories of black persons who are thriving in STEM.

#VanguardSTEM is an online network and empowered community of women of color, girls of color and non-binary people of color living at the intersections and thriving on the STEM frontier. Catch up and tune in as we share tools, cultivate wisdom and amplify our voices while living our best STEM lives!

[Diogenes]

Are you sure this wasn't more satire?

UC Berkeley doesn't think so:

UC Berkeley supports #ShutDownSTEM and Black Lives Matter

I also posted the Twitter hashtag, so it's rather legit. The Left in the US is becoming just as loony as the far right and it's affecting other countries:

Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So (NYT)

[Cow Poke]

UC Berkeley doesn't think so:

UC Berkeley supports #ShutDownSTEM and Black Lives Matter

I also posted the Twitter hashtag, so it's rather legit. The Left in the US is becoming just as loony as the far right and it's affecting other countries:

Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So (NYT)

Check out my post, Diog --- are they unaware they linked to a site that seems to boast of the successes of STEM?

[CivilDiscourse]

Are you sure this wasn't more satire?

You seem to have more than half a brain. Can't you tell?

[Cow Poke]

You seem to have more than half a brain. Can't you tell?

But let's follow this through, because they appear to be linking to a site that SUPPORTS STEM.
I'm leaning, of course, to this NOT being satire, so it, on the surface, looks like they're making assumptions others are on board who are not.

[Mountain Man]

Are you sure this wasn't more satire?

That's the problem with liberal delusion: it's often impossible to tell.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Take a look at the website and see for yourself. If it is satire, they're doing an awfully good job of supporting it.

Oh yes I see. It appears to be a one day shut down, am I correct? I am not sure what murders have been perpetrated by academia. Send for Hercule Poirot I say!

[Cow Poke]

So the vanduardstem.com website seems truly supportive of STEM, with actual women of color who have PhDs in Molecular Biology, Astrophysics, Biochemistry, etc...

[Diogenes]

But let's follow this through, because they appear to be linking to a site that SUPPORTS STEM.
I'm leaning, of course, to this NOT being satire, so it, on the surface, looks like they're making assumptions others are on board who are not.

One of the listed organisers authorited this:


Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics, published by University of Chicago.

The people behind the shutdown are real people.

[Cow Poke]

One of the listed organisers authorited this:


Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics, published by University of Chicago.

The people behind the shutdown are real people.

Yessir - so it appears they screwed up by including a website with very HAPPY looking (with one exception) women of color of science excited about STEM!

[Diogenes]

Yessir - so it appears they screwed up by including a website with very HAPPY looking (with one exception) women of color of science excited about STEM!

VanguardSTEM is more about a safe space

The guiding principle of the show is to create conversations between emerging and established women of color in STEM, where we can celebrate and affirm our identities and STEM interests in a safe space.