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Sept. 17, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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NSF Funds Shamelessly Fraudulent Science
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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As you have probably heard, the hard sciences are full of white supremacy.
I've always wondered how math and physics could be racist.
And, thanks to a half-million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, now we know.
As the authors of a seminal paper report, they have made whiteness visible.
The paper is called Observing Whiteness in Introductory Physics, a case study, and it's in a peer-reviewed journal called Physical Review Physics Education Research.
Let's start with what the authors call their positionalities.
Amy D. Robertson says she is a chronically ill Here she is, research professor of physics at Seattle Pacific University.
She adds that as part of the hegemony of whiteness, in which she plays a reluctant part, her own whiteness was long invisible to her.
But she is now waking up to the world as it is, with gratitude for the support of friends, scholars, and activists of color.
So she's a newbie in all this, but she's got the zeal of a convert.
And she sees this paper as one piece of her effort to join the collective struggle for liberation from white supremacy.
Her co-author, Tally Hairston, Mr. Hairston's Positionality is such
that he identifies with the larger historical narrative of pre-enslavement and pre-colonial African rootedness.
Arabs started raiding black Africa for slaves in the 8th century, so the historical narrative of pre-enslavement is thin.
But even more important, for this project, Hairston brings forward equity in education that is not centered in white normativity.
Unlike Professor Robertson, he was born with a gift for unmasking whiteness.
The authors explain that they capitalize black, Hispanic, and person of color, but they don't capitalize white because it is a socially constructed category that was created for the purposes of dominance and exclusion.
The very first sentence of the paper is this.
Critical race theory names that racism and white supremacy are endemic to all aspects of U.S. society, from employment to schooling to the law.
This is not a hypothesis.
It's an axiom.
So, how does this study unmask white supremacy right in a college classroom?
First, the authors get off to strange start.
We define whiteness in the following way.
Within whiteness, Organization of social life is in terms of a center and margins that are based on dominance and control.
If you have a center that dominates the margins, you have white supremacy.
The authors even admit, notably, this definition does not require actors to be white in order to participate in whiteness.
That to me says trouble ahead.
But it leads to a flowchart that explains, in their words, how multiple forms of oppression are related and how these lead to multiple forms of harm.
Apparently, it all starts with colonialism, before which everyone was happy.
Remember, all this is taken for granted before we even see a lick of data.
For the study, these scientists video-recorded four consecutive days of instruction of a college physics course.
Out of the four days, they chose just one six-and-a-half-minute snippet to analyze, presumably, the six-and-a-half minutes of the most visible, pernicious whiteness.
The class in the video was taught by a mixed-race, half-white woman, who gave an assignment to three students, a Middle Eastern man, a white woman, and a Hispanic woman, who have to solve a physics problem.
The paper has still images from the video of what happened, along with bits of dialogue.
Some of them inaudible.
That caught white supremacy red-handed.
After the students hear the assignment, the Middle Eastern man picks up a marker and starts solving the problem on the whiteboard.
The two women ask a few questions and make a few comments, but the Middle Easterner solves the problem to the satisfaction of all three students.
They go back to their seats, and the biracial teacher asks the group to explain the solution.
The Middle Easterner raises his hand.
Where is the white supremacy?
In several places.
The four and a half minutes were centered on the Middle Easterners getting the right answer.
And getting the right answer is white supremacy.
Why is that?
Because it ignores ways of knowing that have not historically been recognized by physics, e.g.
Eastern and indigenous ways of knowing.
And that is white supremacy because enforcing a social organization with a consistent center and margins is epistemicide, or the extermination of knowledge and ways of knowing.
Epistemicide, no less.
Using the whiteboard is white supremacy because with white organizational culture, ideas and experiences gain value and become more central when written down.
The fact that whiteboards are white is apparently not white supremacy.
The Middle Easterner made a couple of little notations on the board after a comment or two from the women, but you wouldn't know that from looking at the words.
What he wrote is therefore ahistorical.
And you know what that means.
Ahistoricity supports a revisionist version of history that fuels white racial ideologies by centering white perspectives on historical events and downplaying white violence, disconnecting current racial violence and trauma from its long history.
All that wickedness was hiding right there on the whiteboard, but these two crack scientists laid it bare.
Now, if you think that all we see in these six and a half minutes is that the man who knew the solution took over and the women followed his lead, these scientists have refuted you in advance.
They say you are engaging in bad faith argumentation.
The scientists spent part of their half million dollars interviewing the people in this drama.
They report that the Hispanic woman, whom they call Paris, wasn't at all bothered by what happened.
She says she likes it when people who know the answer speak up and explain how they got it.
In fact, Paris appreciates the centering of these students, which helps her to get the right answer, the thing that has been ascribed value by whiteness over and above other things.
She's an unwitting victim and accomplice of white supremacy.
The scientists also interviewed the Middle Easterner.
Who was viciously centering himself.
And they interviewed the white woman, the student, who, despite basking in white privilege all her life, was the most marginalized person of all.
But they don't tell us a thing that they said.
Maybe they said the whole paper was hogwash.
Which, of course, it was.
I can imagine an identical little game of center and margin in a class full of Ethiopians.
Or even a thousand years ago, when a band of Kalahari Bushmen, who had never even heard of white people, got lost in the desert.
And the guy who had the best idea of where to go drew a map on the ground with a stick to explain why it was better to go left rather than right.
I guess that was white supremacy in blackface.
This whole idiotic.
$500,000 paper boils down to one idea.
Getting the right answer is white supremacy, and not considering Eastern or Indigenous ways of knowing is epistemicide.
Well, I am quite sure that real Easterners, Chinese and Japanese, don't give two hoots what Confucius ever said about thermodynamics.
But these fools, at the end of the paper, they write, scholars, teachers, and activists of color, note the reverential uppercase, have been dreaming and creating for ages and have invited us to join the movement for collective liberation.
We want to dream together, with you, toward physics, teaching, and learning as a world where many worlds are possible.
No. No.
No. The Chinese want to get to the moon, build a better virus.
They must be goggled with amazement at this rubbish.
And remember, this was funded by a National Science Foundation grant for $513,283.
That's tax money.
It was published in a peer-reviewed journal, which means the reviewers were all equally crazy.
If this was all the white supremacy they could find with half a million dollars, there isn't any there, and they should shut up about it.
And everyone involved in making this grant and spending the money should be fired.
But, I'm sure, next time they'll spend a full million hunting for white supremacy, because, you see, they know it's there.
According to research professor Amy Robertson's CV, she's been principal investigator or co-principal investigator for six grants, totaling $2,296,000, and all but $2,000 of that was from the National Science Foundation.
Your money!
I'm sure there'll be plenty more.
Just for fun, I sent email to the scientists who wrote this mush.
Politely asking if they spent the full half a million on this, and if not, what they would spend the rest on.
Amy didn't reply, but Talley wrote back to say he wasn't time.
I wrote to say that his LinkedIn page says, Since 2018, we have co-led the strategy assessment and community engagement of King County's Puget Sound Taxpayers' Accountability Account.
I said I was a taxpayer who wanted accountability.
He wrote back, I won't entertain this obvious demonstration of privilege anymore.
I told you he was born with the power to unmask whiteness.
But what an embarrassment.
If Republicans ever control Congress, will they look into this craziness?
The National Science Foundation, like every piece of government, is under orders to eliminate barriers to equity in program delivery.
Amy and Talley.
are certainly not studying superconductivity or gamma-ray imaging, but NSF can brag that it splashed out half a million to a thin, chronically sick white female and a bona fide person of color.
It got a compost heap in return, but equity is being achieved.
This will continue until we stop it, or the whole system comes crashing down.
It can't happen soon enough.
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