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From the Telegraph:
Camilla Turner, education editor, 2 JULY 2019 • 10:00PM
Cambridge University is running a “reverse mentoring” scheme for staff to combat “structural racism”.
Under the project, white senior academics and management staff are assigned one of their black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) colleagues as a mentor in order to encourage “institutional change” at the university.
It is part of a raft of initiatives that the university’s equality and diversity department has introduced over the past year, aimed at boosting diversity and driving out racism.
Reminds me of how in the Soviet military, top officers had political commissars following them around to make sure they didn’t get up to anything.
After all, what have white academics at Cambridge U. ever accomplished?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/01/cambridge-university-accused-racism-allowing-non-black-lecturer/
Goodness me, what a loss to our civilisation! Let us hope she reconsiders. On the other hand, when she is 56 rather than 26 she may learn why there are so few blacks at Cambridge.
Can they make coffee? Pump gas? Taste-test the food? Search the office for nooses?
I’ll take that cute Oriental minder with the Mao jacket and tight skirt, even if she can’t.
https://news.yahoo.com/cambridge-university-assign-white-staff-210000592.htmlWell, that's an old british tradition involving riding crops.
“Reverse mentoring” sounds like you have to listen to someone who will make you dumber.
It's called MSNBC.
>Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a black Angolan known for achieving freedom and wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. He was one of the first Negro property owners and had his right to legally own a slave recognized by the Virginia courts. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years, and was granted land by the colony.[1]
He later became a successful tobacco farmer in Maryland. He attained great wealth after completing his term as an indentured servant, and has been referred to as “‘the black patriarch’ of the first community of Negro property owners in America”.[1] <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
Cambridge don John Maynard Keynes used to mentor minority ethnic colleagues back in his day. It’s an old Cantabrigian tradition.
— The Party Culture War by Steve Johnson.
— Keynes: A Critical Life by David Felix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-SkOrientalism in action.
SJW/BLM in action:
This was a controlled big budget study with sample size of 10k+ kids in one city. The “stop suspending disruptive blacks” policy increased the black-gap from .4 to .52, and would have been even worse if it hadn’t also hurt white test scores a small amount.
Steve asked on twitter if the good showing of TX blacks is because of the state’s relatively conservative culture. Here’s evidence for this. Leftist obsession with black bodies damages the brains of black children.
"We do not see that academic outcomes improved in the PERC (“Pursuing Equitable and Restorative Communities”) schools. Even though students were suspended less, achievement did not improve for students in these schools."
“Indeed, it is difficult to know whether student behavior improved because of PERC or because schools were choosing to punish students without suspending them, or both. Surveyed PERC staff did not think that PERC was affecting student behavior.”
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2800/RR2840/RAND_RR2840.pdf
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=662295185
“A raft of initiatives” from the “equality and diversity department.” I bet the E&D folks don’t come cheap.
They are there to “drive out racism.” Kind of like a latter day St. Patrick.
There’s a certain schadenfreude here in that the existence of the social justice university administration can be directly traced back to radical professors and their non-radical colleagues who didn’t push back as their departments were being taken over.
In U.S. universities having to write a groveling struggle-session “diversity statement” and orally defend it in order to get a job or get promoted is humiliating enough, especially for white males, and females, who know it’s hopeless. But the next level is having someone constantly interact with you. How long can anyone go in university life without committing some sort of politically incorrect gaffe, as judged by an of-color “mentor” out to justify her salary?
“John [of course the 30-year-old black female grievance studies graduate will not be addressing the 67-year-old geography professor as “Professor Newman”], you’re doing really well, but I see a few areas in which your classes can be made more inclusive. First, you should not call on white males who want to ask questions until the final five minutes. Secondly, that chemistry mumbo jumbo you write on the board: can you make it more relevant to the students lives? I’m not an expert in your field, but instead of formulas for all that stuff nobody understands, how about recipes for barbecue sauce? And the grading system is too meritocratic and patriarchical. Instead of giving A’s to students with scores whose first digit is 9 and Ds to people with scores whose first digit is 6, how about giving A’s to students with scores whose last digit is 9 and Ds to people with scores whose last digit is 6 — as long as they are not underrepresented minorities?”
“…white senior academics and management staff are assigned one of their black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) colleagues as a mentor in order to encourage “institutional change” at the university.”
Are there enough BAME colleagues to go around at Cambridge? I don’t think there are enough in all of Britain:
Don’t turn around, oh oh oh
(Ja, ja) Der Kommissar’s in town, whoa oh oh
You’re in his eye and you’ll know why
The more you live, the faster you will die
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
The wreck of the Medusa is the perfect analogy for our current era.
A year ago the same paper reported on this sort of program at a less august univeristy in the UK.
Male, pale and stale university professors to be given ‘reverse mentors’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/09/male-pale-stale-university-professors-given-reverse-mentors/
So it’s spreading up the hierarchy of institutions.
My guess is that the amount of mentor time is going to be pretty small, a lunch now and then, popping into a class once or twice. Otherwise it could get expensive … or maybe that’s the goal, job creation?
At any rate, I expect that the mentoring will not be one way. I’m sure that the “mentors” have information gaps in their knowledge, and the “lived experience” of the elder professor may be unpleasantly enlightening. “KaQuiina, these files contain three decades of student final exams for this class. I have taken the liberty of sorting last year’s tests by race and ethnicity. Let’s pick three random exams each from, oh, 25 years ago, 10 years ago, and from black and from white students last year, and spend a few minutes glancing at them. I think you’ll see that the tests of the black students exhibit quite a bit of … diversity as compared with those of the white students.”
My advice to professors: video or record each meet-up, explaining that you’d like to review your mentor’s wisdom multiple times. This protects you from false accusations.
I have a feeling both the student mentors and the professors will be equally embarrassed by this kind of race "mentoring", and the meetings will become coffee breaks devoted to casual chit-chat, at best. In their first meeting the student might give it a shot by recounting stories he heard from grandmom about life in the old country, and the professor nodding his head politely. How many sessions before the meetings peter out?
I don't think the depiction below is a likely scenario.
https://www.metro.us/sites/default/files/styles/normal_article_breakpoints_theme_metrous_desktop_1x/public/main/articles/2016/08/24/JOBS_Mentoring_0905_1.jpg
In the meantime they can inculcate a sense of shame & make the surveilled White guy descend into a pit of paranoia & self loathing.
We already have a TV network for that.
It’s called MSNBC.
The Telegraph:
~ A Raft of Initiatives ~ Théodore Géricault, 1818-19
Conclusion from the report:
“We do not see that academic outcomes improved in the PERC (“Pursuing Equitable and Restorative Communities”) schools. Even though students were suspended less, achievement did not improve for students in these schools.”
“Indeed, it is difficult to know whether student behavior improved because of PERC or because schools were choosing to punish students without suspending them, or both. Surveyed PERC staff did not think that PERC was affecting student behavior.”
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2800/RR2840/RAND_RR2840.pdf
Steve, you may need to revise/rethink what you wrote a few days ago on colleges and wokeness and why some bright whites might not want to go into that environment.
So it seems the meltdowns isn’t really consigned to also-rans. Furthermore, not everyone wants to go into STEM and the rot is the deepest in the humanities. Last year there were significant protests to change the curriculum at UPenn’s English lit department, in order to “decolonise” it. The rot is well-entrenched even at the highest echelons.
No person with any intellectual integrity would submit to such mind policing. Which is exactly the point. People with integrity no longer go into academia. It’s careerist hacks and political fanatics from top to bottom.
All over for White men now. Rule by Kaepernick.
In any multi racial society White men come in last. You don’t see Asian women demanding this of their men or Black women.
Soon it will be no Whites allowed. Anywhere.
BAME? More like BlAME.
Who do you think pushed this? The administration?
It sounds like something out of the literary work of George Orwell.
Do they have tenure over there? The professors should tell their minders to go f**k themselves.
I think there were political commissars at every level of command, not just for top officers. In fact, I think the Zampolits in the Soviet Army were, rank-wise, deputies to the unit commanders.
Who decides who gets the East Asian female reverse-mentor and who gets the black male one?
Although it would be fun to introduce yourself and say, "Gosh, you're really adoorable! Your hair is so lustrous! Where are you from? Pittsburgh? No, I mean where are you really from?"
What have BAME academics ar Cambridge U ever accomplished? Asking for a friend.
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Balasubramanian - and this will be of interest to many HBD-enthusiasts in this comment section - was a principal inventor of the leading next generation sequencing methodology, Solexa sequencing, that has made routine, accurate, low-cost sequencing of human genomes a reality and has revolutionised biology. Solexa was later acquired by Illumina, a name that readers of Steve Hsu's blog will know well.
Professor Krishna Chatterjee is well-known (in the academic circles I inhabit) for his work on the endorcrine system. Amartya Sen - who won the Nobel Prize in Economics - was a professor at the University of Cambridge.
To finish off, here's Professor David Krishna Menon's biography:
LOL.
also, i believe soviet submarines had a political officer on board.
sounds like what british professors will have now. a political officer, to monitor any ground breaking research they might be about to publish, and veto that.
it’s interesting how complete leftist control and forced diversity leads to this effect:
vibrant political capture of smart fraction output
people who say we don’t need to worry much about 100 million third worlders showing up, because that won’t affect what the geniuses are doing in their labs at the universities, are clearly very mistaken.
One irritating — and spectacularly indefensible — assumption implicit in this is that non-white staff would be less racist than white staff. To anyone with any actual acquaintance with non-whites, the absurdity of that is immediately apparent. Bless their little hearts, non-whites are at least as racist as us white folks. No doubt about that.
There were Party minders attached to government officials up and down the various bureaucracies in the Soviet Union — at least that is what we were taught in Soviet Politics class. As I recall, it was Lenin who came up with the model as well as his concept of Democratic Centralism.
I read a description of restorative justice, and it seemed horrible. A black kid slugs a white kid in the jaw. No cops are called, no expulsion. The restorative justice guy, often a teacher who doubles at this, gets the two kids together in the same room. The white kid, who doesn’t want to be anywhere near the black kid, is pressured to talk it out with the black kid and they come to a fake kumbaya moment, the white kid because he’s scared, the black kid because he knows how to game the system.
The important thing if a kid is physically assaulted is to call the cops, the real cops, and get something on paper and some witness names. Then demand that the criminal be expelled from the school, or the school system itself. Make like you are going to sue everyone right and left. Ask a lot of quesitons about internal school system internal complaint and discipline procedures. Keep the heat on the criminal end. Be the squeaky wheel. Let the blalck kid’s parents know that if it goes criminal they’ll need to take out a second mortgage. Don’t participate in any restorative justice if a felony was involved.
1) Black kids are hardly ever disciplined. Disparate impact doctrine has made this even worse.
2) If a white kid were foolish enough to actually call 911, the dispatcher would route the call to the school's principal's office, and the kid would be a laughingstock anyway.
3) If a white kid called in any authority on a black kid, said white kid would be in the ICU by nightfall.
4. The black kid likely doesn't have 'parents'--maybe a baby momma, and she's heard it all.
5. Even if every bit of the foregoing were not true, as soon as the first repercussion is even contemplated, the black kid will claim that the white kid called him the 'n-word' and said white kid, it will be agreed by one and all, got just a small taste of what he deserved.
Fortunately for them (if unfortunately for the larger society) the remaining white kids in public, 'diverse' schools today are reasonably savvy and know how to make the 'correct' sounds and are very seldom inclined to put themselves in the meat grinder that is called 'racial' or 'restorative' 'justice'.
Please tell us that department has a meaning less potent in the UK than in the US.
From what I’ve read about the UK’s reverse mentoring push, it’s not the appalling attack on old whitey that this article implies.
Nobody’s following anyone around or monitoring their behavior. The mentor and mentee just sit down for a few bull sessions, maybe do a couple social outings, with the goal of understanding each other’s perspective, then the relationship is over. Both parties now have a connection that may be valuable in the future. It’s just forced networking.
WRONG!
It's not your hippy-dippy "forced networking". For old whiteys it's the proverbial Sword of Damocles.
Give me the black guy any day over the Korean-American SJW. Sarah Jeong, Dororthy Kim, Jenny Han, R.O. Kwon, Helen Kim, anyone?
Although it would be fun to introduce yourself and say, “Gosh, you’re really adoorable! Your hair is so lustrous! Where are you from? Pittsburgh? No, I mean where are you really from?”
What's the worst version of the black guy you can think of?
It is a truly stunning testament to how little experience they’ve actually got in dealing with non-Western societies if they axiomatically think that they are less racist. The brutal reality is that compared to the vast majority of the world, the US is over-the-top liberal on race relations. Canada is not the rest of the world, libbies!
The Chinese don’t even bother to *hide* their contempt for Africans, for Chrissakes.
Q: what are your impressions of U.S. blacks?
Cabbie #1: "there's something wrong with those people."
Cabbie #2: "they hate everyone but their own group."
Rest: (bobbing heads)
Uh, we care someone quit college why? Aren’t there like a billion drones behind her in line?
In a democracy or representative government of any sort, the victorious party is the one that can assemble the largest coalition. Since all parties have about the same amount of spoils to divide up as rewards for their coalition, victory goes to the party with the coalition that has the lowest reward vote (that’s simple division, fixed spoils/(largest number of votes).
The Left has always had a reward that its opponents have not: non-secular reward (also “virtue points”, “moral superiority”, “fanaticism”, ” millenarianism, etc.) In post-WW II Western societies, the left has one new reward that it can give and its opposition cannot: racism. The Left can be clearly racist (started with treatment of Judaism, a forbidden topic since perhaps 1955, continued with Civil Rights for Blacks (“How come it’s reported that whites oppress Blacks, but every time I’ve met them they’ve oppressed me?) and continued on past that. At this point, the Left promises to award American citizenship to the relatives of anybody who supports the Democrats, and demonstrates that yes, it really can. Until very recently, this has given the Left an unbreakable hold on US government.
I propose that this simple tyranny, an end to any kind of representative government. The works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ended any pretense of moral superiority by the USSR. The contemporary Left has three weak points:
* Voter importation that makes the countryside powerless, cities hell holes, has led directly to the suicide or murders of hundreds of thousands of people.
* Moral pretensions that amount to using force on anybody who opposes them.
* Employing racism against anybody who opposes them.
Phrased that way, arguments against the Left neutralizes much of the Left’s available rewards.
Side note:
Arguments that some “devil” group is responsible for all bad things is a religion, no more, usually one with a devil but no god or God, and it has no chance of prevailing in a representative system because it does not affect either number of voters or rewards offered.
Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency
I was wondering why Asians were specified, then I remembered that’s what they call Muslims over there.
By the way, would it be considered insensitive if I dressed up like the ghost of Newton and ran around campus throwing apples at minorities?
“Reverse mentors”
Don’t they mean de-mentors, like in Harry Potter:
I always knew Keynes was way out there in BFE.
Nobody's following anyone around or monitoring their behavior. The mentor and mentee just sit down for a few bull sessions, maybe do a couple social outings, with the goal of understanding each other's perspective, then the relationship is over. Both parties now have a connection that may be valuable in the future. It's just forced networking.
MikeW:
WRONG!
It’s not your hippy-dippy “forced networking”. For old whiteys it’s the proverbial Sword of Damocles.
If only Newton had had a reverse mentor, imagine what he could have achieved.
https://www.youtern.com/thesavvyintern/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Reverse-Mentor1.jpg
Male, pale and stale university professors to be given 'reverse mentors'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/09/male-pale-stale-university-professors-given-reverse-mentors/
So it's spreading up the hierarchy of institutions.
My guess is that the amount of mentor time is going to be pretty small, a lunch now and then, popping into a class once or twice. Otherwise it could get expensive ... or maybe that's the goal, job creation?
At any rate, I expect that the mentoring will not be one way. I'm sure that the "mentors" have information gaps in their knowledge, and the "lived experience" of the elder professor may be unpleasantly enlightening. "KaQuiina, these files contain three decades of student final exams for this class. I have taken the liberty of sorting last year's tests by race and ethnicity. Let's pick three random exams each from, oh, 25 years ago, 10 years ago, and from black and from white students last year, and spend a few minutes glancing at them. I think you'll see that the tests of the black students exhibit quite a bit of ... diversity as compared with those of the white students."
My advice to professors: video or record each meet-up, explaining that you'd like to review your mentor's wisdom multiple times. This protects you from false accusations.
Very good thinking. One can’t be too careful these days.
https://5newsonline.com/2019/07/01/siloam-springs-woman-gets-probation-after-trying-to-frame-husband-for-rape/
She tried to land her husband in prison hell for life on child rape charges.
She gets probation.
Or Einstein.
OT
US woman’s soccer team is more hetero than lesbian. More have male partners be they husbands or boyfriends.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7204985/Meet-wives-husbands-girlfriends-boyfriends-Womens-Soccer-team.html
The brainwashing is strong in this one.
(From Daily Mail article; the Telegraph is behind a paywall and I can’t be bothered to breach it. NB the Mail calls her ‘Miss’, which will raise her blood pressure even more.)
Goodness me, what a loss to our civilisation! Let us hope she reconsiders. On the other hand, when she is 56 rather than 26 she may learn why there are so few blacks at Cambridge.
By then there will either be lots of Blacks at Cambridge or the wealthy Asians will have driven them out with tasers.
And, OT- Steve thought that Israel's import of Ethiopians was a master stroke. Well, Steve ....
https://www.timesofisrael.com/136-held-83-hurt-in-protests-against-ethiopian-israeli-teens-slaying-by-cop/
136 held, 83 hurt in protests against Ethiopian Israeli teen’s slaying by cop
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ethiopian-israeli-protesters-block-junctions-across-country-over-teens-killing/
Ethiopian-Israeli protesters block junctions across country over police killing
Are these minority mentors (aka overseers) getting paid? Because that’s what this is all about. What Cambridge Admin slush fund is paying them?
Follow the money. It’s all about jobs for minority yobs. Welfare reparations what have you.
Male, pale and stale university professors to be given 'reverse mentors'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/09/male-pale-stale-university-professors-given-reverse-mentors/
So it's spreading up the hierarchy of institutions.
My guess is that the amount of mentor time is going to be pretty small, a lunch now and then, popping into a class once or twice. Otherwise it could get expensive ... or maybe that's the goal, job creation?
At any rate, I expect that the mentoring will not be one way. I'm sure that the "mentors" have information gaps in their knowledge, and the "lived experience" of the elder professor may be unpleasantly enlightening. "KaQuiina, these files contain three decades of student final exams for this class. I have taken the liberty of sorting last year's tests by race and ethnicity. Let's pick three random exams each from, oh, 25 years ago, 10 years ago, and from black and from white students last year, and spend a few minutes glancing at them. I think you'll see that the tests of the black students exhibit quite a bit of ... diversity as compared with those of the white students."
My advice to professors: video or record each meet-up, explaining that you'd like to review your mentor's wisdom multiple times. This protects you from false accusations.
Reverse mentoring arose first and foremost in HR departments as an idea to tackle the issue of younger employees being way more in touch with developments in technology, while their older managers sometimes struggled to keep up.
I have a feeling both the student mentors and the professors will be equally embarrassed by this kind of race “mentoring”, and the meetings will become coffee breaks devoted to casual chit-chat, at best. In their first meeting the student might give it a shot by recounting stories he heard from grandmom about life in the old country, and the professor nodding his head politely. How many sessions before the meetings peter out?
I don’t think the depiction below is a likely scenario.
LOL... "Hey white man, there's your racism right there. You can't see it?"
Male, pale and stale university professors to be given 'reverse mentors'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/09/male-pale-stale-university-professors-given-reverse-mentors/
So it's spreading up the hierarchy of institutions.
My guess is that the amount of mentor time is going to be pretty small, a lunch now and then, popping into a class once or twice. Otherwise it could get expensive ... or maybe that's the goal, job creation?
At any rate, I expect that the mentoring will not be one way. I'm sure that the "mentors" have information gaps in their knowledge, and the "lived experience" of the elder professor may be unpleasantly enlightening. "KaQuiina, these files contain three decades of student final exams for this class. I have taken the liberty of sorting last year's tests by race and ethnicity. Let's pick three random exams each from, oh, 25 years ago, 10 years ago, and from black and from white students last year, and spend a few minutes glancing at them. I think you'll see that the tests of the black students exhibit quite a bit of ... diversity as compared with those of the white students."
My advice to professors: video or record each meet-up, explaining that you'd like to review your mentor's wisdom multiple times. This protects you from false accusations.
Maybe these Minority Mentors could also serve as the White Brit’s disciplinarians when he is sent off to a Blairite-Maoist Reeducation Camp.
In the meantime they can inculcate a sense of shame & make the surveilled White guy descend into a pit of paranoia & self loathing.
Life imitates art.
Back here in the real world…
1) Black kids are hardly ever disciplined. Disparate impact doctrine has made this even worse.
2) If a white kid were foolish enough to actually call 911, the dispatcher would route the call to the school’s principal’s office, and the kid would be a laughingstock anyway.
3) If a white kid called in any authority on a black kid, said white kid would be in the ICU by nightfall.
4. The black kid likely doesn’t have ‘parents’–maybe a baby momma, and she’s heard it all.
5. Even if every bit of the foregoing were not true, as soon as the first repercussion is even contemplated, the black kid will claim that the white kid called him the ‘n-word’ and said white kid, it will be agreed by one and all, got just a small taste of what he deserved.
Fortunately for them (if unfortunately for the larger society) the remaining white kids in public, ‘diverse’ schools today are reasonably savvy and know how to make the ‘correct’ sounds and are very seldom inclined to put themselves in the meat grinder that is called ‘racial’ or ‘restorative’ ‘justice’.
I have a feeling both the student mentors and the professors will be equally embarrassed by this kind of race "mentoring", and the meetings will become coffee breaks devoted to casual chit-chat, at best. In their first meeting the student might give it a shot by recounting stories he heard from grandmom about life in the old country, and the professor nodding his head politely. How many sessions before the meetings peter out?
I don't think the depiction below is a likely scenario.
https://www.metro.us/sites/default/files/styles/normal_article_breakpoints_theme_metrous_desktop_1x/public/main/articles/2016/08/24/JOBS_Mentoring_0905_1.jpg
LOL… “Hey white man, there’s your racism right there. You can’t see it?”
Zut alors! Pops out from the moderation queue by eight minutes prior!
What bored identity can tell you?
We shall all hang separately, anyway.
In the meantime they can inculcate a sense of shame & make the surveilled White guy descend into a pit of paranoia & self loathing.
Indeed…our Brave New World in microcosm.
Although it would be fun to introduce yourself and say, "Gosh, you're really adoorable! Your hair is so lustrous! Where are you from? Pittsburgh? No, I mean where are you really from?"
Is that the worst you can think of “the Korean-American SJW”?
What’s the worst version of the black guy you can think of?
And having fewer of her type in the place is an improvement.
Okay. But if I get the black guy I get to ask, Can I touch your hair?
Which goes to show their lack of courage.
In the meantime they can inculcate a sense of shame & make the surveilled White guy descend into a pit of paranoia & self loathing.
Maybe these targets will finally start voting against the politicians that are channeling all this stuff.
If the White professors at Cambridge can’t fight this battle then I certainly can’t fight it for them. I know too that the Cambridge professors who let things get so bad in their own domain would never do anything to help me either.
I have to wonder what’s the point in adding just one more item to the scrapbook called “political correctness has gone mad!”? Haven’t we been doing this since at least the Eighties? Maybe we can’t actually effect politics at this scale? We can all recreationally fret for a few minutes about what’s happening over at Cambridge but only people on site have the power to change anything. “Don’t worry, just wonder” is what my father said about such things.
Goodness me, what a loss to our civilisation! Let us hope she reconsiders. On the other hand, when she is 56 rather than 26 she may learn why there are so few blacks at Cambridge.
…. when she is 56 rather than 26 she may learn why there are so few blacks at Cambridge.
By then there will either be lots of Blacks at Cambridge or the wealthy Asians will have driven them out with tasers.
Two years ago PBS Code Switch, it’s diversity cult podcast, followed a new all-boys DC charter school that was to feature restorative justice. It didn’t go so well. It was a mixed income school but most of the students were black. The higher income kids started taking their kids out in the first quarter. A kid assaulted a security guard. Teachers left by the end of the year. The principal contemplated doing away with it after year 1.
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=662295185
“Government funded doctorate about contemporary American artists and writers” I am vomit.
He later became a successful tobacco farmer in Maryland. He attained great wealth after completing his term as an indentured servant, and has been referred to as "'the black patriarch' of the first community of Negro property owners in America".[1] <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
Anthony Johnson was the guy who got slavery started in America, wasn’t he?
Don’t fool yourself, it will be a paki.
But non-whites can’t be racist. Please update your manual.
Usually because the poor victim knows somebody who knows the editor.
US woman's soccer team is more hetero than lesbian. More have male partners be they husbands or boyfriends.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7204985/Meet-wives-husbands-girlfriends-boyfriends-Womens-Soccer-team.html
Wow, I didn’t expect that.
And about clearing out the deadwood whites for vibrant, fascinating POCs.
83 injured as Ethiopian protesters riot across Israel
Dozens of police officers injured, along with protesters, passersby, and a fireman. Stones thrown, cars set on fire, and roads blocked.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265441
Are there enough BAME colleagues to go around at Cambridge? I don’t think there are enough in all of Britain:
BAME includes black, Asian and mixed-race people.
There are very few black professors in the UK, but there are a lot of Asians – particularly Chinese and Indians (these groups are more ‘privileged’ than whites in the UK) – and probably lots of mixed white/Asian professors, including at Cambridge. In fact, I have a spreadsheet detailing the ethnic breakdown of faculty at Cambridge, and while there are very few blacks, there are plenty of Asians.
After all, what have white academics at Cambridge U. ever accomplished?
It is because of the accomplishments of Cambridge scholars, not despite them , that this is happening.
Goodness me, what a loss to our civilisation! Let us hope she reconsiders. On the other hand, when she is 56 rather than 26 she may learn why there are so few blacks at Cambridge.
I said long time ago: the time will come when we will, reminiscing with nostalgia, blather on good ole days when homos & other types of fairies were though to be the some kind of problem….
And, OT- Steve thought that Israel’s import of Ethiopians was a master stroke. Well, Steve ….
https://www.timesofisrael.com/136-held-83-hurt-in-protests-against-ethiopian-israeli-teens-slaying-by-cop/
136 held, 83 hurt in protests against Ethiopian Israeli teen’s slaying by cop
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ethiopian-israeli-protesters-block-junctions-across-country-over-teens-killing/
Ethiopian-Israeli protesters block junctions across country over police killing
Professor Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomes, and is currently the President of the Royal Society. His sister, Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan, also at Cambridge, was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has authored influential work on infectious disease and TB in particular.
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Balasubramanian – and this will be of interest to many HBD-enthusiasts in this comment section – was a principal inventor of the leading next generation sequencing methodology, Solexa sequencing, that has made routine, accurate, low-cost sequencing of human genomes a reality and has revolutionised biology. Solexa was later acquired by Illumina, a name that readers of Steve Hsu’s blog will know well.
Professor Krishna Chatterjee is well-known (in the academic circles I inhabit) for his work on the endorcrine system. Amartya Sen – who won the Nobel Prize in Economics – was a professor at the University of Cambridge.
To finish off, here’s Professor David Krishna Menon’s biography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
And yours is among the most tiresome of arguments. "Why, there are potential Nobel Prize winners among the dusky hordes crashing onto our shores!!" Yeah, how many? One in a million? Is one Nobel Prize worth the incalculable havoc and destruction caused by the other 999,999?
Meanwhile, how many potential white Nobel Prize winners were denied opportunities because of multi-culturalism?
Has anyone noticed that the noun “racism” now has to be braced up with the latest adjectives, e.g. “structural” racism, “systemic” racism, “environmental” racism, blah, blah, blah.
The point of this is to make sure the “diversity” commisars never run out of work hunting down racists in every nook and cranny, and making “Where’s the Racist hiding”? an eternal game of ‘whack-a-mole’ — you smack down structural racism and up pops economic racism. Industry expansion and job security.
Sacre Red, White & Bleu!
What bored identity can tell you?
We shall all hang separately, anyway.
Don't they mean de-mentors, like in Harry Potter:
https://thebrotherhoodofevilgeeks.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/dementor_dudley1.jpg
A reverse Mentor sets up Telemachus to get killed by the suitors.
Nobody deserves it more than the professors. I hope they get it good and hard.
Second Mortgage? We’re ( or at least the Fed’s fiat money is) paying for their Section 8 housing in the middle class neighborhood. Who needs busing when the Democrats are bringing them to your neighborhood via Welfare Housing allowances?
I know a guy, an occasional journalist, who had a vague hunch he was being thought of for one of those bullshitty university admin slots, “special assistant to the director of institutional . . .” blah-blah. He’s not a prof, but some admin types had made nice to him, and he knew some of his fragmentary writings gave the appearance of SJWism. He let slip where his archived writing could be found. Not a SJW. Next thing you know, the university’s employment site had language on it that talked about “thorough review of social media, publications” etc. He got a chuckle over it.
It’s probably pretty awful for people who want to make a career of the academy, but will be rejected for ideological or demographic reasons.
Male, pale and stale university professors to be given 'reverse mentors'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/09/male-pale-stale-university-professors-given-reverse-mentors/
So it's spreading up the hierarchy of institutions.
My guess is that the amount of mentor time is going to be pretty small, a lunch now and then, popping into a class once or twice. Otherwise it could get expensive ... or maybe that's the goal, job creation?
At any rate, I expect that the mentoring will not be one way. I'm sure that the "mentors" have information gaps in their knowledge, and the "lived experience" of the elder professor may be unpleasantly enlightening. "KaQuiina, these files contain three decades of student final exams for this class. I have taken the liberty of sorting last year's tests by race and ethnicity. Let's pick three random exams each from, oh, 25 years ago, 10 years ago, and from black and from white students last year, and spend a few minutes glancing at them. I think you'll see that the tests of the black students exhibit quite a bit of ... diversity as compared with those of the white students."
My advice to professors: video or record each meet-up, explaining that you'd like to review your mentor's wisdom multiple times. This protects you from false accusations.
Reported here, one year ago.
From this, and from my readings at the blog “Brown Pundits”, it seems that (1) even Cambridge is becoming woke (2) BAME (British for POC) is the new LGBT.
So here’s my question: is diversity a historic mistake, something that inherently produces societies with more friction and less achievement; or is the main problem, the new leftism that seeks group equality?
Being assigned a minder must feel awkward and deeply humiliating. I know it will arrive here too.
We are NOT all Keynesians now.
Interesting, isn’t it, how societies with rampant homosexuality within their elites are always in an era of waning power — Peloponnesian War-era Athens, interwar Britain, contemporary U.S. …
LOL... "Hey white man, there's your racism right there. You can't see it?"
Look! There are little men inside the box! Are they magic spirits?
I'll take that cute Oriental minder with the Mao jacket and tight skirt, even if she can't.
They can certainly shine the professors’ shoes.
What Nixon once said – “We are all Keynesians now.” is even more true today in light of the current depraved state of society. “In the long run, we are all dead.” is perhaps not so surprising a quote from a childless, athiest, pederast economist.
We’re in the long run now and, sure enough, Keynes is thankfully dead.
If the professors flinch from their racial duties, do the commissars have the right to shoot them on the spot? That’s how it was done in the Red Army comrades. It’s the only way.
Telemachus was only vulnerable because he was not yet grown. If these dons can’t figure out how to deal with these mentors they deserve their fate.
The phrase “hanging separately” comes to mind.
From that article in The Telegraph:
Wow, sounds like Harvard got itself a real winner in that Ms. Seresin. She is managing to be a complete and total parasite, making a career out of the contemplation of worthless garbage, and doing her bit to wreck every institution she comes into contact with. She would do less harm to society if she became a heroin dealer.
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Balasubramanian - and this will be of interest to many HBD-enthusiasts in this comment section - was a principal inventor of the leading next generation sequencing methodology, Solexa sequencing, that has made routine, accurate, low-cost sequencing of human genomes a reality and has revolutionised biology. Solexa was later acquired by Illumina, a name that readers of Steve Hsu's blog will know well.
Professor Krishna Chatterjee is well-known (in the academic circles I inhabit) for his work on the endorcrine system. Amartya Sen - who won the Nobel Prize in Economics - was a professor at the University of Cambridge.
To finish off, here's Professor David Krishna Menon's biography:
You missed the most famous one, even though he died a century ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar#At_Cambridge_University
Curiosity made me google the Pakistani Students Society of Cambridge University web page…
I must admit I can’t muster much sympathy either. Of anyone, these White Male professors have the least cause for complaint. Even with tenure, they have refused to stick their necks out.
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Balasubramanian - and this will be of interest to many HBD-enthusiasts in this comment section - was a principal inventor of the leading next generation sequencing methodology, Solexa sequencing, that has made routine, accurate, low-cost sequencing of human genomes a reality and has revolutionised biology. Solexa was later acquired by Illumina, a name that readers of Steve Hsu's blog will know well.
Professor Krishna Chatterjee is well-known (in the academic circles I inhabit) for his work on the endorcrine system. Amartya Sen - who won the Nobel Prize in Economics - was a professor at the University of Cambridge.
To finish off, here's Professor David Krishna Menon's biography:
So? That all could have been done by whites. Or Ramalangadingdong could have done it back in India, instead of leeching off what the English created.
And yours is among the most tiresome of arguments. “Why, there are potential Nobel Prize winners among the dusky hordes crashing onto our shores!!” Yeah, how many? One in a million? Is one Nobel Prize worth the incalculable havoc and destruction caused by the other 999,999?
Meanwhile, how many potential white Nobel Prize winners were denied opportunities because of multi-culturalism?
In any multi racial society White men come in last. You don't see Asian women demanding this of their men or Black women.
Soon it will be no Whites allowed. Anywhere.
This only works as long as White men agree to it in their own community, workplace and social circle. When we stop being good sports in enough places, it’s over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
Hang on, what about this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar#At_Cambridge_University
As that Wikipedia article notes, Chandrasekhar did do his best work at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Trinity, but decided to leave England and seek employment in the United States in his late twenties, after Sir Arthur Eddington, then possibly the most famous astrophysicist in the world, ridiculed his theories in public, quite egregiously. Eddington was the kind of archetypal old-school Oxbridge class, race and nationality snob someone else mentioned here. Chandrasekhar was quite sure the animus was purely racial.
Yes and they get to marinate in one of the centres of western civilisation while they “undergo” this. I feel a lot more sympathy and empathy for the guys who who have to deal with this while working in an office cubicle out in a gloomy industrial park.
In the absence of weighty evidence to the contrary, and in polite society, assuming that others have the best of intentions is a good strategy. If the assumption turns out to be true, you benefit from a positive interaction and maybe good future relations. If it turns out to be false, your benevolence publicly shames the malign actor.
In Oxbridge, the tradition is that academic colleagues and staff (including porters at the gate) address you as Mr. or Miss, not as Doctor. Indiana Seresin shows herself to be ethnocentric, ignorant, and an Ugly American of a new type.
Some Oxbridge colleagues are class snobs, more so among the most senior. They are nasty about POCs, Irish, French, Germans, Italians, Americans, middle and lower classes, anyone outside their narrow upbringing from age 7 in posh private schools rife with terrorizing pederasty.
She's not American.
But what type of non-American is she? -- let's see: PhD on speculative archives in contemporary art and lit. Part-time heterosexuality theorist, full-time dyke
Also: According to this article in the Daily Mail, she is the daughter of cinematographer Benjamin Seresin, who is the son of Harry Seresin, of whom Ben said: “My dad was a bon viveur. His house parties were legendary, as was his libido.” ... Harry Seresin was a Russian Jewish émigré who became a leading entrepreneur in Wellington’s restaurant and cultural scene; he was co-founder of the Downstage theatre, running its business side and setting up its restaurant.
I have a feeling both the student mentors and the professors will be equally embarrassed by this kind of race "mentoring", and the meetings will become coffee breaks devoted to casual chit-chat, at best. In their first meeting the student might give it a shot by recounting stories he heard from grandmom about life in the old country, and the professor nodding his head politely. How many sessions before the meetings peter out?
I don't think the depiction below is a likely scenario.
https://www.metro.us/sites/default/files/styles/normal_article_breakpoints_theme_metrous_desktop_1x/public/main/articles/2016/08/24/JOBS_Mentoring_0905_1.jpg
The White guy looks East European Jewish and pugnacious. That Somali chick better not be dropping any truth bombs about Palestine on him.
Dozens of police officers injured, along with protesters, passersby, and a fireman. Stones thrown, cars set on fire, and roads blocked.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265441
Israel messed up airlifting them to Israel. Now they have imported an entrenched victim group that they can’t get rid of. Leaders really need to learn to refrain from actively virtue signaling.
Right. They’ve contributed to this nonsense. It’s their fight assuming they want to fight it at all.
Looking at the students in the background versus the three girls in the foreground, it appears the photographer made a point of picking out two girls who have at least half English ancestry to be featured. We’re they trying to make Pakistanis look whiter than they are? Or are these the officers of the Society and somehow the palest rose to the top?
The two lighter skinned girls don't necessarily have any English ancestry. Some Pakistanis are very light-skinned and and their features can look quite European. Mr. Sailer has done a post to that effect once or twice.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/when-did-mark-wahlberg-become-prime-minister-of-pakistan/
The one in the middle looks like a striver, ready to denounce whiteness whenever it might make its unwelcome appearance. Also, did they sneak in a transsexual (to left)?
It’s a lot less like tsampoliti and more like the “Aryan controllers” seen in the Slovak 60s film The Shop on Main Street (unrelated to the American 40s one). But neither comparison is as appropriate as an African analog.
Here we’d been so watchful for the encroaching Nanny State, we left our blind side wide open for the Mammy State.
Progress.
This is not a culture war. This is an employment war. An earnings war. Earnings also means Somalis grabbing from Swedish natives. Embittered imported grievance minorities know this. Why would any sane non-colonialist people like you do this? Not knocking you in Sverige. America is worse. btw I lived in Scandinavia in my youth. Four months or so.
I think it was Trotsky who came up with the idea of political officers.
Useless Ethiopians. Correct you are but Israel wanted to show it was non racist due to it’s Arab situation. Translating into world pressure. So show and display this Ethiopian Jew (in fuzzy-wuzzy name only) airlift to the UN, and simulacra judgemental World bodies.
Lol…. Izzies messed up, to put it lightly.
Interview with 5 ME muslim cabbies in Berkeley, 2002:
Q: what are your impressions of U.S. blacks?
Cabbie #1: “there’s something wrong with those people.”
Cabbie #2: “they hate everyone but their own group.”
Rest: (bobbing heads)
Abandoned to slow death and cannibalism aboard a makeshift shaft, full of diversity which proves disastrously divisive and violent, by the inadequate and craven authorities whose incompetence and arrogance ran the ship aground in the first place.
The wreck of the Medusa is the perfect analogy for our current era.
In any multi racial society White men come in last. You don't see Asian women demanding this of their men or Black women.
Soon it will be no Whites allowed. Anywhere.
You mean like Latin America?
So yeah if you need a billion dollars to not be on the bottom of a society then that society hates you.
This woman’s “career” is the sort of lifetime welfare program that should really piss people off.
Israel messed up by including open borders (right of return) in their constitution (basic laws).
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
If you put the clerisy in charge of monitoring you, you’ll discover the joys of having your own party commissar who can ax your job at a whim. They were morons to do it. I bet profs bail right and left and head for other jobs, and other profs will no longer try to get jobs there.
… “except when billionaires”
So yeah if you need a billion dollars to not be on the bottom of a society then that society hates you.
I’m not sure the goal is to mentor the profs at all, but to come up with an excuse to kick them out en masse and replace them as teachers with the ethnic monitors. I think it’s an attempt at a total coup on the part of minorities.
I bet five bucks she didn’t quit because of racism. I’m certain she was finding her PhD too hard to do, and she was considering dropping out anyway. But she needed an excuse she could latch onto to so her disappointed Jewish parents wouldn’t jump all over her for quitting.
Insert lesbian between black and asian…blame better acronym than bame
It’s good to know what we’re up against; what are the contours of the problem; how deep is the rot.
We’ll miss her..
They are just like shoulder angels. I have one to keep me from engaging in wrongdoing/wrongthink. She is wise and funny, but strict when need be. She looks and sounds like Whoopi Goldberg. Imaginary they say, but my angel is real enough to me.
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that somebody may be looking.” “May be” just isn’t good enough anymore.
Yes, that’s the only practical use such stories can do us.
France had them during the revolution, I believe.
“In Berkeley…the average white public school sixth grader scores at a grade equivalent of 8.3, or 30 percent of his way through ninth grade.
In the Stanford database, the national average sixth grader represents grade level 5.5: i.e., this typical student starts sixth grade at grade level 5.0 and ends sixth grade at 6.0, so on average while in sixth grade he is at 5.5.”
Steve, I know that many of your readers are competent enough in math to likely find your additional statistical exposition (“or 30 percent of his way through ninth grade,” etc.) unnecessary. But for an attorney like me who never took a math class harder than Algebra II, I find it much appreciated. Always remember that you have loyal readers who are kinda math dunces…or at least you have one.
Great article.
In the Stanford database, the national average sixth grader represents grade level 5.5: i.e., this typical student starts sixth grade at grade level 5.0 and ends sixth grade at 6.0, so on average while in sixth grade he is at 5.5."
Steve, I know that many of your readers are competent enough in math to likely find your additional statistical exposition ("or 30 percent of his way through ninth grade," etc.) unnecessary. But for an attorney like me who never took a math class harder than Algebra II, I find it much appreciated. Always remember that you have loyal readers who are kinda math dunces...or at least you have one.
Great article.
I initially assumed sixth graders would average grade level 6.0, but I eventually figured out from this very long paper and from crunching Reardon’s huge database that they are set to average 5.5.
So white professors will be examined for race crimes – by people of races that are even more privileged than whites. You couldn’t make it up.
No. My guess is that the person who took the picture is one of the male students, looking for a excuse to chat with the girls—something about their facial expressions…
The two lighter skinned girls don’t necessarily have any English ancestry. Some Pakistanis are very light-skinned and and their features can look quite European. Mr. Sailer has done a post to that effect once or twice.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/when-did-mark-wahlberg-become-prime-minister-of-pakistan/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar#At_Cambridge_University
Oh yeah. Though I associate him with the University of Chicago more than Cambridge.
As that Wikipedia article notes, Chandrasekhar did do his best work at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Trinity, but decided to leave England and seek employment in the United States in his late twenties, after Sir Arthur Eddington, then possibly the most famous astrophysicist in the world, ridiculed his theories in public, quite egregiously. Eddington was the kind of archetypal old-school Oxbridge class, race and nationality snob someone else mentioned here. Chandrasekhar was quite sure the animus was purely racial.
LOL…. on rewrite, I’d have had her say: “Hey white man, there’s your racism right there. You can’t see it, can you. No, of course you can’t.”
…And maybe “That’s what I’m here for, crackuh!” Although she does look a bit high-class to be saying ‘cracker’… ah, that rara avis, the high-class African. They’re all over the MSM, but somewhat thin on the ground, you might say.
Agreed. I’ll bet there are Assistant Deans of Diversity and Inclusion throughout American academia kicking themselves for not having thought of it first.
I remember, back in college, my commie history professor teaching us about the horrible repression in the arch-reactionary 19th century Austrian Empire – policemen were posted in university lecture halls to keep tabs on what the professors were saying. Fortunately, that sort of thing doesn’t happen in the modern, woke academy.
I’m sorry but you’re missing what’s right in front of you. Consider the first two paragraphs of the article. Culture war all the way.
Driven by the culture war department, no less. I wonder what the ‘raft of initiatives’ might contain.
Needs to be destroyed and the grounds salted.
The opposite of a basket of deplorables.
In Oxbridge, the tradition is that academic colleagues and staff (including porters at the gate) address you as Mr. or Miss, not as Doctor. Indiana Seresin shows herself to be ethnocentric, ignorant, and an Ugly American of a new type.
Some Oxbridge colleagues are class snobs, more so among the most senior. They are nasty about POCs, Irish, French, Germans, Italians, Americans, middle and lower classes, anyone outside their narrow upbringing from age 7 in posh private schools rife with terrorizing pederasty.
Indiana Seresin shows herself to be ethnocentric, ignorant, and an Ugly American of a new type.
She’s not American.
But what type of non-American is she? — let’s see: PhD on speculative archives in contemporary art and lit. Part-time heterosexuality theorist, full-time dyke
Also: According to this article in the Daily Mail, she is the daughter of cinematographer Benjamin Seresin, who is the son of Harry Seresin, of whom Ben said: “My dad was a bon viveur. His house parties were legendary, as was his libido.” … Harry Seresin was a Russian Jewish émigré who became a leading entrepreneur in Wellington’s restaurant and cultural scene; he was co-founder of the Downstage theatre, running its business side and setting up its restaurant.
Based on viewing a large number of live paki speciment while in the UK, looking more like the ones in the background except darker and more ethnically dressed, I would say the paler ones did rise in this case.
The one in the middle looks like a striver, ready to denounce whiteness whenever it might make its unwelcome appearance. Also, did they sneak in a transsexual (to left)?
As that Wikipedia article notes, Chandrasekhar did do his best work at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Trinity, but decided to leave England and seek employment in the United States in his late twenties, after Sir Arthur Eddington, then possibly the most famous astrophysicist in the world, ridiculed his theories in public, quite egregiously. Eddington was the kind of archetypal old-school Oxbridge class, race and nationality snob someone else mentioned here. Chandrasekhar was quite sure the animus was purely racial.
How ironic that the ‘Oxbridge class, race and nationality snob’ was 100% right. If only they had listened. Well, perhaps the nice, modern, non-snob professors can discuss it now, though of course only while the racial commissar is present.
How so?
The Chandrasekhar limit, which indicated the possibility of black holes, was validated. Eddington’s public opposition to his theory slowed down the development of astrophysics in the 1930s and beyond. In terms of the sequence of papers and topics (and accompanying discoveries and confirmations by observation) perhaps a decade was lost to the field. Black holes were confirmed in 1972. The state of knowledge could have gotten there in 1962.
Eddington’s opposition was emotive regarding the implication of black hole collapse. Unfortunately, unlike Einstein’s reaction to the quantum mechanics of subatomic particle collisions, when he is reported to have said as an aside that”God does not play dice” but didn’t otherwise hold up the field of physics, Eddington campaigned to not have the implications of Chandrasekhar’s work be followed up on.
Does this mean the Boom & Bust video rendered Keynes’ partying style rather incorrectly?
Orientalism in action.
I'll take that cute Oriental minder with the Mao jacket and tight skirt, even if she can't.
The whole thing is non-paywalled on Yahoo
https://news.yahoo.com/cambridge-university-assign-white-staff-210000592.html
Well, that’s an old british tradition involving riding crops.
From Kant’s Categorical Imperative to Seresin’ Felt Imperative.
This whole bullshit is simply so completely mental that one wonders what the hell is actually going on.
“institutional change” is an evident euphemism for “destruction of the institution”. It’s plain. It’s direct.
Why are young, excitable females suffering from jungle fever, fantasizing about a different world when they quite certainly don’t know anything about the one they inhabit, even being listened to?
Why don’t people visit Nigeria U for their decolonization experience?
This is the country that can’t into building its own nuclear reactors anymore.
Brunel wept.
Anyway, to cheer oneself up:
Will that old Vulcan’s engines run? Bluebird jet boat team turn to Cold War bomber: Static display jet last ran in 1983
As Sailer has pointed out repeatedly, neither liberals nor fundamentalist Christians believe in evolution. The difference? Fundamentalist Christians refuse to accept evolution in order to push an ideology that has as its highest goal treating others the way we wish to be treated. Liberals believe evolution stopped when the first humans left Africa, which means they don’t really believe in evolution either. Liberals don’t believe in evolution because they would rather blame whites without the means to defend themselves for black and brown misbehavior and underperformance. This story is a case in point.
Yet in the greater scheme of things, better to have held the line in the first place. Now the UK is packed with the countrymen of Chandrasekhar; I hear they will start working on our pensions real soon. As far as I’m concerned, better if he and his countrymen had stayed in India and astounded us from there instead and the UK had continued as a classist racist nationalist unacceptable country instead.
I’m not really impressed or concerned with a lost decade or more in a remote part of physics. Small price to pay, in particular since things around there seem to have ground to halt sometime in the 70s anyway. Or perhaps I’m wrong? No matter, the key point is, let the Indians keep their human capital back home instead.
And yours is among the most tiresome of arguments. "Why, there are potential Nobel Prize winners among the dusky hordes crashing onto our shores!!" Yeah, how many? One in a million? Is one Nobel Prize worth the incalculable havoc and destruction caused by the other 999,999?
Meanwhile, how many potential white Nobel Prize winners were denied opportunities because of multi-culturalism?
Then why hadn’t it been? I don’t think you understand the concepts of “genius” and “meritocracy”. Asians could equally argue that they could have done everything that the great white geniuses have done. Again, doesn’t make it true. You identity politics people really are so tiresome. But interesting to see that you support affirmative action for whites (while I oppose it for all).
And, my argument for some immigration isn’t merely based on Nobel Prize winners, or the Ramanujans of the world (try telling me that anyone could have done what Ramanujan did).
The Indians and Chinese in Britain cause far less “havoc” than whites — particularly the white underclass, as documented well by Theodore Dalrymple — never mind the others. They earn their money, pay their taxes, staff our hospitals and run our businesses. Goodness me, how awful my high school experience would have been — with noisy, bratty kids without a modicum of intellectual curiosity — without the high-IQ Indians, and the Egyptian and the Japanese.
Some of white middle-class in the UK are still fine, though the rot is setting in there too: to see the sons and daughters of doctors wasting their lives was rather a shame, though I may have just been witnessing the harsh reality of regression toward the mean (an inevitable feature of non-caste-based societies, or societies which no longer choose matches for people taking into consideration the family as a whole, as in Jane Austen’s days).
It’s all mental (in their minds) rather than mental (insame). Tilting at windmills/LARPing.
Gross mismatch.
‘ I wonder what the ‘raft of initiatives’ might contain.’
The opposite of a basket of deplorables.
Thanks for clarifying. I was in a hurry and misread your post to mean that Eddington was 100% correct about the physics.
It is worth noting as a footnote to your post that Chandrasekhar’s paternal uncle, the Indian physicist C.V. Raman, who won a Nobel for work that was equally path-breaking, did indeed do all his work in India and never left—later in life, lending his prestige and talents to founding institutes of science in his homeland.
While Chandrasekhar may have thought that Eddington's animus was racial, you only have to look at the history of science to see that there's been plenty of unpleasantness as to whether a theory was correct or not - in the complete absence of possible racial motives. Some real personal feuds. And quite often the person on the receiving end of the unpleasantness was the one who was right.
She's not American.
But what type of non-American is she? -- let's see: PhD on speculative archives in contemporary art and lit. Part-time heterosexuality theorist, full-time dyke
Also: According to this article in the Daily Mail, she is the daughter of cinematographer Benjamin Seresin, who is the son of Harry Seresin, of whom Ben said: “My dad was a bon viveur. His house parties were legendary, as was his libido.” ... Harry Seresin was a Russian Jewish émigré who became a leading entrepreneur in Wellington’s restaurant and cultural scene; he was co-founder of the Downstage theatre, running its business side and setting up its restaurant.
Why do full-time dykes imagine they have anything useful or original to say about heterosexuality?
A minor point: Odysseus, with three men fighting at his side, also needed Athena’s help to destroy the suitors.
Yes, I was going to mention Raman – did great work and all in India.
While Chandrasekhar may have thought that Eddington’s animus was racial, you only have to look at the history of science to see that there’s been plenty of unpleasantness as to whether a theory was correct or not – in the complete absence of possible racial motives. Some real personal feuds. And quite often the person on the receiving end of the unpleasantness was the one who was right.