The Bridge Will Be Held Up By The Force Of Social Justice

Ted Kaczynski needn't have worried. Civilization will collapse before the technology overwhelms us.

remember all those bridges in Quebec?

I suggest you ask, say, a veteran Polish engineer who had to get a degree in the days of communism about what it's like to have to wade through umpteen obligatory classes in Marxist-Leninist theory as part of their education.

My local County Building Inspection Dept. employs dozens of Structural Engineering Plan Reviewers ... two are what I would call ... Caucasian. The rest are primarily Asian and Indian (non native Indians). I might add that nearly all of them speak with a strong foreign accent. So please explain the need for “social justice” in the Engineering Dept.s? Just another social justice “solution” in search of a problem.

Those 'Marxist traditions', would that list include theft, corruption, mass murder, incompetence, and torture?

Here in Canada, it started after the incident involving Gamil Gharbi/Marc Lepine. Right away, engineering departments across the country quickly scrambled to be seen as "inclusive", almost as if they were taking blame for what happened on that day. (One example of that was something I heard about the engineering faculty at my own alma mater. It, apparently, required that the freshman year curriculum include a mandatory course on "women's issues".)

It's a long way from what it was like when I was an undergrad. We worried about (sexist, racist, and patriarchal) trivialities such as understanding Mohr's Circle or Bernoulli's equation or, maybe, how to apply Fourier analysis in heat transfer problems.

Whenever I read about malarkey such as Dr. Riley proposes, there's a strong temptation for me to apply for life membership in my profession and hang it up completely. The engineering business is slowly becoming too absurd.

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jjm informs us... New France ceased to exist de facto
on 8 September 1760"

as maxwell smart used to say... "missed it by that much."

but you get my point.

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"Curse the boring old British Empire for abolishing slavery - and freeing the miniscule slave population of the Canadian colonies, such as it was - three decades before the Land of the Free."

1793 in Ontario The Legislative Council of Ontario passed an Act which restricted the importation of slaves, and determined that any child of a female slave would become free at age 25. (Slaves already in the province would remain slaves). This meant that slaves escaping to Ontario became free upon crossing the border. Thus the 'underground railway'. All slaves were freed by Imperial Act in 1833.