The chairman of the earth and planetary sciences department at the University of California at Davis announced an “anti-racist reading group” for faculty and students. The group’s purpose was to confront the “structural racism that pervades” the field of geology. Such structural racism in the study of igneous rocks is apparently so obvious that the chair did not bother to elaborate further.
Heather Mac Donald on pantomime claims of “systemic racism” and their corrosive and farcical effects.
Geology and racism. I got nuthin.
The chairman must be feeling of insecure tenure.
Last year you had to include “global warming” in every research grant application, this year it’s “systemic racism”.
Do they ever shudder at their own obsequious compliance? Are they ever ashamed??
The more things change the more they stay the same.
As a geologist I can absolutely say that racism is rampant in my field. Biotite, basalt and galena are looked upon with scorn and derision, while limestone and quartz shine in their white glory.
And this tension causes earthquakes?
Sure, why not.
Also, the tears of fracking opponents cause some earthquakes too.
Not to mention that sedimentary rocks are regarded as lazy just lying around all day doing nothing – especially the dark shales or mudstones. The light sandstones are clearly regarded a superior.
Stop peddling that schist in here. We take funning around like this for granite, but there are Black Rocks Matter supporters that have had a tuff go of it that wish you would diorite now.
now now, play gneiss
And gold is always found in WHITE quartz … right ?
All I want is a volcano
Far away when it starts to blow,
And gives us a fiery show.
Oh, woooooouuuldn’t that be lava-ly?
(Yeah, yeah, I know….. I made an ash of myself…..)
Yup, seeing a volcano, up close and all, would really magma day complete! It would make me ponder why I was pluton this earth, and remind me of my faults and to be humble in all things rather than vein.
Ore I could just be talking out of my ores…
Ore I could just be talking out of my ores…
I fissure you’re rille-y trying to graben to something. (And who says knowing a bit of planetary geology isn’t useful, eh?) We may have to pumice not to continue with this.
Maybe we should continue this anorthosite, eh?
Now it’s not systemic racism it’s structural.
Likely for the same reasons they don’t call it global warming anymore.
Gotcha…. you mean: how we went from Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming > Global Warming > Climate Change > Climate Disruption is best understood as a marketing exercise for the plebs or strategy for the Alinsky elites when reality is opposite to politically generated hysteria.
Structural eh? Strong, powerful structure. Sounds like those bad bad geologists substituted in a word of the patriarchy!
Hollywood had it right, White Hats & Black Hats helped the folks sort out the critters…. White Gold & White Diamonds are racist….. Black Gold is called OIL… Woops!
Virtue signaling twaddle from individuals who have no virtue to begin with. Defund universities NOW!!!!
Increasing I’ve been reading twaddle like this in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s main publication Science.
Oh good grief.
Since Trudeau announced to the world that all white Canadians are RACIST, everything else falls into place.
Very good Chris.
Oh, but systemic racism is very real.
If you are not Chinese or married to a Chinese, and not interested in doing the dirty work of Chinese intelligence, you can increasingly forget about tenure in any hard science, geology included.
Yup. That’s one reason I never got a faculty position after I finished my Ph. D. Now that I have my inheritance, I can look back and chuckle at what I “missed” by not being hired.
I side with Sheldon Cooper from “The Big-Bang Theory”. He called the geology faculty – “the dirt boys”!
You are more correct than you know. A significant chunk of we geologists chose that field because we hate mathematics, or are not good at mathematics, or we hate wearing suits (all three in my case.)
Speak for yourself, pal. I was quite good at math, especially navigation and surveying as a Geologist. I liked rocks better. They don’t lip off to you, either. There was nothing like the silence after the grub flight disappeared into the distance. At first that silence seems oppressive, but after a few days you can hear a sparrow fart. I found it quite relaxing. Your hearing improved immensely. The only other noise was the wind, the odd Raven squawk, red squirrels or occasional howling band of wolves or a faint Lynx. If you’re on a lake the wavelets and the inevitable shithawks, or Loons, a few ducks, or a fly jumping fish.
I hated suits and offices, preferring the din of diamond drills, Cats, helicopters and float planes and thundering diesels later. Big diesels, the kind that take you down to 5000 meters or so.
Do they study which rocks to throw at the Police?
Only threw gneiss rocks.
And have we forgotten the Whites-Only cliffs of Dover?
Used, of course, as navigational aids for the Nazi’s …
&^$$ Limestone Cowboy – I was composing my message about White Imperialist Cliffs of Dover when your message appeared. If those cliffs had been black there never would have been a British Empire.
Who’sit a wine-stoned vhat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InWGKXuQon0
That song got a lot of airplay on Edmonton radio stations, back when the city was sensible, thick-skinned, and had a sense of humour.
Here’s another one that was on the local airwaves at around the same time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbHknhf2VZI
My dad used to sing that, but thought it was Nestor. Many thanks!
You’re welcome.
An old mate of mine is from the Saskatoon area. Apparently Metro’s song made it all the way there as my buddy was always chuckling about it.
This is like the CDS, Vance, proclaiming the CF to be a systemic racist organization. An organization he was part of for 39 years, and that he led for 6 years. Soooo… what conclusion should we draw from this? Is Sajjan also a racist? What about Mr Blackface?