Posted on 01/12/2024 6:48:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
A top university in the United States is now offering a class called “Afrochemistry,” with the intention of explaining alleged “inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”
As the Daily Caller reports, the class will be taught at Rice University from January 8th to April 19th, 2024. The class has no final exam.
“Students will apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S. and students will implement African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry,” the course description states. “Diverse historical and contemporary scientists, intellectuals, and chemical discoveries will inform personal reflections and proposals for addressing inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”
“This course will be accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds including STEM and non-STEM disciplines,” the description continues. “No prior knowledge of chemistry or African American studies is required for engagement in this course.”
The announcement of the course led to backlash and mockery from academics and others, lamenting the latest example of politics and racial identity infiltrating a subject that has nothing to do with either. A Wall Street Journal op-ed said that such classes “are beginning to appear almost everywhere and are getting support and encouragement from the scientific establishment.”
Jerry Coyne, a biologist and professor emeritus at Chicago University, said that the course might as well have been advertised as “The Study of Black Lives Matter,” and denounced the class as an example of how the field of science has become poisoned by racial identity politics and “progressive activism.”
A private university founded in 1912, Rice University was ranked 17th on the list of best “national universities” in the country by U.S. News’ 2024 rankings.
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This is not the Bee. Really.
we thought the hard sciences were safe from wokeism.
I suppose this is a problem that will take care of itself, once they start mixing stuff.
Afro-Sheen is flammable. That’s all they need to know.
Good for them.
I’m at the point where I feel that any discussion on any topic that gets anywhere close to something like this should be met with “Stop talking about race you stupid effing racist bastard.”
There’s nothing more that needs to be said. These people are the problem and they should be summarily dismissed.
George Washington Carver and who else?
U.S. News must have some dandy ranking criteria. One wonders if "Arfrostatistics" are involved.
AKA “How To Make Crack and Meth”.
Don’t people see just how demeaning and insulting this is to black people?
Now you know who will be creating your new vaccines for what they come up with.
Beyond parody.
I feel like not understanding basic chemistry will take care of itself, sooner rather than later and reality will strike the ignorant participant in a flash or perhaps a noxious gas.
Ridiculous. These Universities have been monopolized by race baiters and communists. The Obama-Biden Regime is behind this crap.
Chemicals aren’t just colorblind, they’re blind period. They can hurt or kill anyone, no matter what color he or she is.
This class is a credit to their Rice.
With apologies to Red Buttons.
Because sometimes Molotov Cocktails are just not enough!
They will be mixing fetenal with crack and other substances to ensure the black population stays submissive to the democrat party.
Hunter Biden has been appointed as the lead professor.
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