At Montreal’s Concordia University, even light is being “decolonised.” By people with salaries and lots of taxpayer subsidy:
The assembled scholars boast that they are “not seeking to improve scientific ‘truth’” and that the purpose of their intellectual toil is “not to find new or better explanations of light.” As if such gifts were theirs to give, or a remotely plausible outcome. Instead, they are vexed by the “social power relations” of scientific enquiry, its objectivity and usefulness, and the fact that the quantifiable and demonstrable tends to trump mythology and the adorable ramblings of one’s Very Indigenous Grandpa.
Apparently, this preference for things that actually work is terribly unfair, an affront to “social equity,” resulting in the “marginalisation” of those whose self-esteem is grounded in the obsolete and inadequate, and hence the imperative to “decolonise” All The Things.
My ancestors discovered fire, I want reparations and royalties.
OK. Sure, VOWG.
Do you take Visa, Mastercard, & Discover (no American Express, of course) or must it all be in beads, blankets, and trinkets?
If you’re willing to take a gamble, I’ll send you my shares in FTX. They can only go up… maybe… someday… when cattle fly… First Class, not Coach.
H.R., keep your FTX and offer your Nortel stock and your empties. So says Canada’s military aircraft procurement team and the folks in charge of keeping Nortel safe and secure in Canada.
How’s a keg of firewater sound?
Bingo.
Drivellers and Grovellers.
Great gosh a’mighty!!
Will someone please put these people to work doing something much more useful, like digging holes and filling them in?
You nailed steps 1 & 3 but forgot 2: Climb in said hole.
In my reality anvils make lousy parachutes. I’ll pay for the plane ride that will allow these grifters to demonstrate their “alternative ways of knowledge” to show me up.
Those jokers were dragging wood triangles behind horses for 1,400 years before the colonizers showed up and said “Dude? Wheel!!!!”. And they want us to accept their unique approach to STEM? Pfft.
It wasn’t till the Spanish showed up … about 500 years ago … that they pulled sleds behind horses. Up till then … the women dragged them around. Every Squaw should thank Cortez for lightening her load.
So you’re saying we should take seriously the theory that the moon is made of green cheese, that sickness is caused by demonic possession, and that the Earth is flat and supported on the back of a giant turtle? What about my own personal theory that I’m the Queen of Romania? Anything is possible!
At long last we will know the answer: Is light a wave or a particle. My guess is after decolonization we will be told ‘it’s anything it damn well feels itself to be’.
Grand Unified Buffalo Plains (Field?) Theory has your answer.
Guys, it might not look like it now but this is going the route of the Khmer Rouge.
Only peasants and their simple ways can save the world for the Angkar.
You will eat nothing and be shot in a rice paddy.
Definitely will be shooting back.
What!? You mean The Northern Lights … aren’t … the Turtle god fighting the animals of the underworld for control of the skies? That’s what my local Medicine Man said they are.
Will they now study beating hearts?
I’m told it was an Aztec speciality.
They’re far too late. I read a few years back where an islamic scholar/simpleton – a variety of polymath – was close to discovering the speed of light by reading the Koran. Perhaps they can resolve these tensions with a race riot in a nearby parking lot.
That’s science!
Myself, I see the destruction of scientific studies as part and parcel of de-industrialization. When no-one even understands how stuff works anymore…
Perfectly logical of them.
The Scientific Method is pure poison to all the impossible things they want to believe.
Of course seeking objective truth ,measurement and falsification are evil tools of the Great White Patriarchy..
Naturally these same parasites will never admit the real minimum wage is zero.
As this is their real worth.