Posted on 10/15/2016 9:48:57 AM PDT by bkopto
Students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa brought some interesting concerns before the science faculty this week: namely, they think science as it is currently understood must be abolished.
"The whole thing should scratched off, especially in Africa," said one of the students.
Essentially, these students believe that modern scientific understanding is too Eurocentric.
But according to the student, witchcraft is like Isaac Newton's theory of gravityit's just one way of explaining the world, among many.
"Decolonising the science would mean doing away with it entirely and starting all over again to deal with how we respond to the environment and how we understand it," the student continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Reminds me of this article-
“Feminist PhD Candidate: Science Is Sexist Because Its Not Subjective
Women and minorities cannot understand logic or objective truths, says a graduate student in her dissertation, so science classes should stop using the scientific method.”
http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/29/feminist-phd-candidate-science-sexist-not-subjective/
When will the adults put an end to this idiocy?
From their perspective, the bad thing about science and math is that they immediately show up who is too low-IQ to understand them.
The fact that this woman is even being considered for a
Doctorate should be enough reason to pull accreditation
from the whole university.
I once joked to a group of teachers that I opposed objective tests because it inherently discriminated against those who don’t do well on them. They thought I was one of them.
If they keep thinking like this, they will have a hard time a McDonalds
Get a date that he doesn't pay for.
How about abolishing most of the inhabitants of Africa?
Well ... the young lady on the video was advocating that they do away with Newton's Laws of Motion and his law of Universal Gravitation.
Given the inherent hazards present in life on the African Continent, disregard for such things will pretty much abate the nuisance of these folks within a generation. Two at the most.
Yet another group of “facts aren’t true if they upset you” mentality. This will accelerate their demise markedly.
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Well, THAT is understandable, they missed the age and Philosophy of the Greeks, Christianity, The Magna Carta, The British Bill of Rights, The Age of Reason, The RENAISSANCE, The Industrial Revolution, Sciences like higher mathematics..Logic, Critical Thinking, Ethics..Classical Music..CHESS...heh heh they are worse than the Luddites. They are living like the MUSLIMS 1400 years ago.... BUT for 60 cents a day..
The Bell Curve is an interesting read. The left totally smeared it without reading or understanding it. All educators should be required to read it.
“Decolonizing” science? Morons.
Steal an election?
AIDS/ebola and head choppers are all that Africa seems to produce. Meanwhile decimating some of the most unique wild animals in the world.
yes, win the Presidency.
Some of us live in a world where facts are true by definition, a similar train of reasoning establishes observations as facts. That is the foundation of science. Nothing in it says that if facts are unpleasant or offensive they are not true. It’s really not that hard to understand. You cannot validate your own set of facts according to emotion. It simply doesn’t work.
Proof that Africa will remain primitive. Most of them are incapable of living in a Western civilization.
“Students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa ... think science as it is currently understood must be abolished. ‘The whole thing should scratched off, especially in Africa,’ said one of the students. Essentially, these students believe that modern scientific understanding is too Eurocentric. (A)ccording to the student, witchcraft is like Isaac Newton’s theory of gravityit’s just one way of explaining the world, among many. ‘Decolonising the science would mean doing away with it entirely and starting all over again to deal with how we respond to the environment and how we understand it,’ the student continued.”
Yeah, go ahead and Africanize your science department, Da Vinci. And please get back to us when witchcraft gets you to the moon and produces advanced automobiles and breakthroughs in medicine and 3D printing.
This is too rich.
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