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Professor warns: “Social justice warriors” are destroying engineering
Bogus Times ^ | 8/4/17 | Kim Parkhurst

Posted on 08/04/2017 10:12:38 PM PDT by BogusTimes

Indrek Wichman, a mechanical engineer professor at Michigan State University, has eyed a troubling trend of social justice warriors making their way through the humanities and social sciences and, to his despair, they now have their sights set on leveling their destruction on engineering.

WichmanHaving spent 30 years teaching mechanical engineering, Wichman acknowledges things have changed dramatically and is concerned that “feelings” and “micro-aggressions” have taken a predominant role, much to the detriment of the hard sciences.

“The world we engineers envisioned as young students is not quite as simple and straightforward as we had wished,” he states in a paper in IntellectualTakeout.org, “because a phalanx of social justice warriors, ideologues, egalitarians, and opportunistic careerists has ensconced itself in America’s colleges and universities. The destruction they have caused in the humanities and social sciences has now reached to engineering.”

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Oy vey....
1 posted on 08/04/2017 10:12:38 PM PDT by BogusTimes
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2 posted on 08/04/2017 10:20:18 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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Can’t wait for the “Diversity bridges” and “polysexually correct airplanes”!!!!

Do we have to have collapsing bridges and crashing airplanes for people to see the insanity of the SJW approach to engineering??????


3 posted on 08/04/2017 10:20:30 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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Destruction is the whole purpose of cultural Marxism: the PCdiots are right where minions of of Frankfurt School were supposed to be.

The only way to deal with them is intolerance towards their every demand, frankly even make them unemployable.


4 posted on 08/04/2017 10:20:41 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I like this guy!

From snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman.asp


5 posted on 08/04/2017 10:21:16 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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Great post. China, Russia, India and other countries do not have the Social Justice millstone around their necks.

This SJW (in reality, Socialist Worker) baloney will soon sink us if it is not defeated.


6 posted on 08/04/2017 10:23:11 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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Plenty of engineers in China, India, and Russia. The manufacturing base is gone so who needs engineers? Docile consumers, that's the ticket.

The only glitch is that the same Globalist scum who sold stockholders on shipping industry overseas to take advantage of labor arbitrage, euphemistically called "free trade", have destroyed the incomes of the very consumers the economy of this country is based on.

They have a fix for that, too, though, it's called opium in all it's many forms and it's our turn to be the addict nation that keeps the current incarnation of the East India Company rolling in dough.

Paraphrasing an old song :
"It's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for, don't ask me cause I don't give a damn, next stop is Afghanistan."

Out with the Golden Triangle, in with the Golden Crescent. And this time around, the dope flows mostly to the US rather than mostly to the rest of the world.

JMHo

7 posted on 08/04/2017 10:34:35 PM PDT by Rashputin
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“Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many who enter through it.” The goal of social justice warriors is to destroy whatever they don’t understand. “Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but in airing their own opinions”. As they sow, so shall they reap.


8 posted on 08/04/2017 10:35:07 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Do we have to have collapsing bridges and crashing airplanes for people to see the insanity of the SJW approach to engineering??????


This is not new. In the 60s everyone was going bananas wondering how the Soviet Union put up Sputnik, the first satellite, before the US did. The CIA decided it was due in part to their advances in mathematics, especially Control Theory (which turned out to be a small twist on the Calculus of Variations developed at the University of Chicago in the 30s).

I was assigned to review a new book that had been released — Stochastic Control Theory. I discovered that the first 80 pages did nothing more than make the case that: even though Communism [according to Marx] was based on the proven fact that there was no such thing as randomness, that the world was pre-determined ... the world is so complicated that not all causes can be identified, that sometimes it is useful to use a mathematical fiction to simplify calculations by pretending there is randomness. Those 80 pages were needed to convince the Soviet Union Scientific Council the control theory was compatible with Communism. 80 pages.


9 posted on 08/04/2017 10:40:47 PM PDT by Mack the knife
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SJW types in Engineering??

How in hell did they make it past algebra/geometry/trigonometry, physics, chemistry?

I call BS, no SJW is capable of that much mental acuity.


10 posted on 08/04/2017 10:53:34 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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Do we have to have collapsing bridges and crashing airplanes for people to see the insanity of the SJW approach to engineering??????

I read somewhere that in ancient Rome (or was it Greece?) that an architect of a bridge was made to stand under his creation when it was first put into use, to assure that it would hold up and not collapse on him.

11 posted on 08/04/2017 11:04:47 PM PDT by thecodont
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We keep hiring social justice champion engineers here in Memphis. They all self terminate in about a year and look for government sector engineering jobs where they just sub contract anything they are required to do. They cannot function in private industry.


12 posted on 08/04/2017 11:16:49 PM PDT by blackdog
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The professors are told to pass them. They do. We have a female black lesbian electrical engineer intern who does not know what a motor starter looks like? Nor will she open a cabinet to service one. She thinks gearboxes are motors.


13 posted on 08/04/2017 11:20:59 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: be-baw

Definitely!


14 posted on 08/05/2017 12:31:56 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: BogusTimes

Mao’s cultural revolution - American Style.


15 posted on 08/05/2017 1:25:43 AM PDT by aquila48
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“Great post. China, Russia, India and other countries do not have the Social Justice millstone around their necks.”

Remember China’s cultural of the 60s and 70s? Now we’re them and they are us.


16 posted on 08/05/2017 1:29:57 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Mack the knife

God is great. Has anyone done the math replacing randomness with an omniscient and omnipotent God whose love is everlasting?


17 posted on 08/05/2017 1:32:52 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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I find SJWs to be a macroaggression.


18 posted on 08/05/2017 1:33:34 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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I meant “China’s cultural revolution”...


19 posted on 08/05/2017 1:59:59 AM PDT by aquila48
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Maybe they want to build computers like Landru.


20 posted on 08/05/2017 4:14:45 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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