Posted on 05/23/2017 9:32:59 AM PDT by Teotwawki
According to an assistant math professor at the University of Hawaii, any white man with a job that puts him in power over anyone else should quit or at least think about a voluntary demotion. Piper Harron, who graduated from Princeton with a PhD in mathematics, said in an American Mathematical Society blog post last week that it was impossible to achieve equality until white “cis” men gave up their positions of power so they could be filled by minorities.
“Not to alarm you, but I probably want you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion,” wrote Harron. “Statistically speaking, you are probably taking up room that should go to someone else. If you are a white cis man (meaning you identify as male and you were assigned male at birth) you almost certainly should resign from your position of power.”
Harron went on to remind men who “identify as male and were assigned male at birth” that they do not deserve their own success, no matter how hard they worked to obtain it.
“Get off your hiring committee, your curriculum committee, and make sure you’re replaced by a woman of color or a trans person,” she wrote. “Remember that you live in a world where people don’t succeed in a vacuum; most success happens on the backs of others who did not consent. You have no idea how successful you would have been if you were still you, but with an additional marginalization (not white, or not male, or not cis gender, or with a disability, etc).”
Since Harron recognizes that few white cis men will take her advice (since they are evil), she calls on schools to take matters into their own hands.
“What can universities do?” she asked. “Well, that’s easier. Stop hiring white cis men (except as needed to get/retain people who are not white cis men) until the problem goes away. If you think this is a bad or un-serious idea, your sexism/racism/transphobia is showing.”
Ah. The “if you don’t agree with my idiotic proposal, you’re a bigot” argument. Very powerful stuff.
“When the applications come in, remember society makes dominant applicants look better than they are,” she warned. “Society makes marginalized applicants look worse than they are. There is no objectivity. There is no meritocracy.”
Even better. The “if you don’t hire felons and layabouts, you’re a bigot” argument.
Good news, though. If you’re worried about this kind of nonsense gaining acceptance in mainstream society (and, well…who knows anymore?), and you think you’re in danger of losing your job as a white cis man…all you have to do is put on a dress, change your name from Sam to Samantha, and – voila – you move from the oppressor category to the oppressed category like magic!
Seriously, though…has the fall of a civilization ever been so glaringly predictable?
But do prattle on darlin'...
I identify as a person who busted his butt to get where I am, by the grace of God. Try to take it from me, anyone.
Someone should take a moment to educate this ****** ***** about the white men whose blood purchased her right to spout her outrageously stupid opinions.
It identifies as a female.
Someone needed to say this.
A job is not a gift. It is earned. And it must be earned again and again.
Holy smokes. With all that BS, how does she ever find time to...well...breathe????
What a waste of oxygen.
Ummm.... the president of the last 2 terms was black... and race relations are worse than they have been in decades.
Prof: Piper Harron
Affiliation: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Interests: Calculus II, intersectional radical feminism, Number Theory, anti-racism, etc.
My first big endeavor to improve mathematics was my PhD thesis, which I’m sharing here. I will use this site to share resources related to math or academia, but I do not anticipate regular postings as I spend most of my time dealing with childcare, worrying about politics, or researching the history of social injustice.
“I have expressed and repressed a large number of feelings since Election Day. I am scared of a Trump presidency, but if liberation is my aim, I should not have been satisfied with a Clinton presidency. The machine of death that is the United States of America should never be satisfying to anyone who supports the people. Still, I am scared of a Trump presidency...What keeps me on edge is the miraculous capacity humans have not to scream when they ought to...
...The election of Donald Trump was a declaration of civil war from modern white supremacist people who felt war had already been declared on them. We need to scream. We need to obstruct. We need to fight. We need to resist. We should feel no obligation to “compromise” where we have already compromised....
For a while now, people have talked about staying woke. Well, woke don’t matter if you don’t act. We need to stay more than woke.
If we want justice, we must stop being reasonable. We must throw out all our notions of the right way to do things. (Academics, purge your belief in meritocracy.) This is an emergency.
Do not negotiate with racists. Do not negotiate with bigots. Do not compromise on justice.
Stay woke.
Stay unreasonable.
Stay screaming.
http://www.theliberatedmathematician.com/
Your tax dollars fund her “screaming”. I think she needs a job cleaning stables until she learns what work is like - work when you don’t have time to concentrate on “intersectional radical feminism, Number Theory, anti-racism, etc.”
What the hell is a Math professor opining on this type of thing for? I’ll bet money she did her thesis on some mathematical underpinning of her racist theories, and the institution fawned over it as if it were Newton’s Principia.
Interesting how in her blog she mentions growing up without guidance and feeling lost.
I think many, if not most, SJWs are cut from the same cloth. In addition to their own mental health issues (especially narcissism), they probably grew up coddled physically but emotionally and intellectually neglected. (Probably their own parents were “off.”)
Thrown into university, they find themselves grossly unqualified and out of their element. Instead of acknowledging their limitations, or finding some place more their level, they choose to blame the world.
What makes this overeducated moron believe that employers will put up with their workers “giving” their jobs to anyone else, regardless of minority status?
>>I had a 800 math SAT and 780 verbal<<
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Have you considered how you might improve in the verbal area?
Let’s give that lucrative math professorship to a member of the community, preferably an ex-con.
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