That's bordering on "if she weighs like a duck she's a witch" logic
AgentApple Send a noteboard - 11/07/2021 11:10:24 PM
View original postI would love to post this article on Facebook but I fear their stupid algorithm would classify it as worthy of deletion.
View original postThis article is entitled, "An Actionable Anti-racism Plan for Geoscience Organizations." It's premise is that Geologists and other geoscience occupations are overwhelmingly white, therefore they must be inherently racist. Or at the very least, not intersectional enough. Below is a quote from the article that is my personal favorite.
View original post "As the geosciences strive to be more accessible, the community must recognize that BIPOC and other marginalized geoscientists are not always safe in geoscience spaces. For example, holding objects (e.g., a rock hammer) has been viewed as “suspicious” and, continues to be, used as a reason to call the police on Black people, which can lead to the death of Black individuals, entirely because of racial profiling and an unjustified fear of Black people."
View original postI have thoughts. First, I am skeptical that anyone would call 911 because a black geologist out in the field on a dig was holding a hammer. Yes, I'm aware it unfortunately has happened with carpenters, but to my knowledge, geological expeditions don't normally take place in residential neighborhoods.
View original postSecond, if the use of hammers is problematic and potentially antithetical to overcoming racism in the geosciences, how does one resolve this conundrum? Isn't giving POC geology positions that don't involve hammering all over this land also racist?
View original postThe either/or zero sum ideology at the heart of CRT is exhausting.
Black people holding a gun are "viewed" as suspicious, and a gun is an object, so POC holding objects are "viewed" as suspicious
Is this current events, philosophy, politics, history, science, all of the above?
10/07/2021 03:40:30 PM
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That's bordering on "if she weighs like a duck she's a witch" logic
11/07/2021 11:10:24 PM
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What does this have to do with CRT?
12/07/2021 02:16:27 PM
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Not as much of a stretch as you imply
12/07/2021 05:23:50 PM
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So basically you don't really have an answer. Ok
12/07/2021 08:25:04 PM
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I didn’t intend for this post to be a discussion for or against CRT.
12/07/2021 09:24:16 PM
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Ok, but my secondary questions still stand
13/07/2021 12:18:43 AM
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Really?
13/07/2021 01:02:22 AM
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Of course really
13/07/2021 04:03:50 AM
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Sidenote the heartworm medicine to treat COVID study was retracted for the data appears to be fraud.
15/07/2021 11:47:34 PM
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Roland, you are sometimes very odd. *NM*
16/07/2021 02:27:10 AM
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I have moods, and sometimes I feel so tired, or as you would prefer Mookie, Acedia
16/07/2021 08:20:22 PM
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