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Originally Posted by OscarOne
You should take the time to understand what they are trying to say. Not that you would care, but still.
From someone that is active in this movement:
"I can unpack that a bit. They don't mean, to the best of my knowledge, that teaching, research, and scientific inquiry are bad. They mean that academia does actively harmful things that we need to change: centering the work of white scholars and erasing other contributions; relying on biased systems of evaluation, hiring, and promotion; inviting police onto campus and into student residences and dining halls; moving slowly to embrace anti-racist pedagogies and ways that admissions tests like the SAT erode equity. Or look at the #blackintheivorytower hashtag for examples of racism in contemporary academia. That is what they are critiquing, rather than scholarship itself. (Though, of course, a rethinking of how we do scholarship will be involved.)"
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If I didn't care I wouldn't have posted the link.
From the website, "Black academic and Black STEM professionals are hurting because they exist in and are attacked by institutional and systemic racism"
I never provided my opinion, I provided a link and leave the reader to venture down that rabbit hole. Read/watch opinions from all sides of the debate and form your own opinion.