The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 21, 2018 | Ben Cohen

[PeterPrinciple]

Separate entrances for whites and blacks?

[FlipWilson]

This is troubling. Engineering is the one major in College that is so structured that there isn’t much, if any, room for SJW indoctrination. If they start forcing this stuff into the curriculum, you are going to see an end to the profession.

[LostPassword]

Look for more of this when we have more SJWs doing engineering

[HombreSecreto]

Never hire an engineer with a degree from a SJW Engineering School. They can go work with the Peace Corps in some 3rd World &$#^hole. Problem solved.

[HombreSecreto]

+1000

[bk1000]

Engineering doesn’t care about diversity, tolerance, or whose xxxx you xxxx. No room for SJWs in engineering. People will die.

[vannrox]

This is troubling.

Which is why I no longer hire American engineering graduates.

[redfreedom]

I’m thinking of STEM. They’ve successfully corrupted science, with climate change coming to mind.

Now it’s engineering.

[Da Coyote]

Danger, danger.

Prepare for “2+2+6 - - - for large values of 2, as 2 approaches 3.”

And the square root of -4 is LGBT4U2.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Deeply confused...

[wastoute]

My father, a grad of CSM is turning in his grave.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

According to Leydens, in the mid-2000s students started asking him about how they could combine their “passion for social justice” with their “interest in engineering.”

Pure, unadulterated BS. Injecting "social justice" into the sciences and engineering is a top-down approach driven by administrators and marginally qualified science and engineering teachers with political axes to grind, as all attempts to inject political ideology into the sciences have always been. Previous examples occurred in in totalitarian regimes like Stalin's or Hitler's, but then the endgame for modern Western political correctness has always been totalitarianism.

[sphinx]

Leftist engineers are nothing new. Julius Rosenberg is a classic case.

There was a time, from the late 19th century through the early Stalin era, when leftists were fundamentally optimistic. They thought they were building a better world. They were willing to break eggs to make omelets, but they did believe that socialism or communism would produce a more productive, more humane, happier society. Young communists at that time commonly studied engineering and scientific disciplines (as well as history, economics and the humanities if their interests ran that way) because they were going to build a better world.

That dream suffocated under the piles of corpses produced by communist regimes and the staggering inefficiencies of socialist economic management. Nobody, even on the left, any longer believes that socialism/communism will produce a freer, more humane and more prosperous society. Leftists have recentered on resentment, hate and the lust for power. Those are their motives, and the leaders know it. They only roll out the old peace, freedom and bread agenda as bait for the fools who march in their parades.

[Still Thinking]

It’s essentially paradoxical. You have to be smart to be a good engineer (fact-based domain) and stupid to be a good lib (feelings based to the exclusion of fact or reason). I’m sure these lib “engineers” he talks about are mostly moles sent to contaminate and conquer the last bastion of reality available to us normals, though I have met one or two.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Engineering 201: Pipe bomb design

[sport]

Take the “if” off the first word in your last sentence and replace it with when. And after that, say good by to the profession. Because they shall force this into the curriculum. They shall destroy or corrupt this discipline just as they have destroyed or corrupted every profession or discipline they have gotten their hands on.

[King Moonracer]

I visited a school of engineering recently and the Dean was the most proud of LGBT inclusiveness, not awards or scientific esteem. A lot of puffs were flitting around in the labs. Needless to say, we ended our visit early. When people value form over function and flightiness over logic, they can keep their damn college. Here’s hoping we find a school that values science over sodomy...yeah, I know.

[NorthMountain]

delivered a TED talk

Otherwise known as a self-indulgent exercise in verbal flatulence.

titled “engineering and social justice

"Social justice" has no place in engineering or science. None whatsoever. Anyone who suggests polluting science or engineering with "social justice" should be horsewhipped, tarred and feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.

[ThunderSleeps]

Riley and Lambrinidou’s most extreme canon would bar engineers from designing prisons, working on defense projects, or working in formerly state-run industries.

Bwaa haa haa. Just who and what do these two think keeps them safe at night, allows them the freedom to spout such nonsense? The cold hard truth is the world is not a safe space. And by not a safe space I mean genuinely not safe. Not, not-safe as in "I can't go to the local Starbucks anymore because of their use of plastics" non-safe space. I mean there are people in the world who would torture and behead these two just for something to do on a Tuesday kind of non-safe space.

Snowflakes like these need warriors - and the engineers & technicians that provide the warriors tools and training - to protect their delicate selves.

The really funny thing about this is the entire notion of engineers being SJWs. No, just no. I've been an engineer for over 3 decades. Actually all my life, I just didn't know it until I went to college for my first engineering degree. There may be a relative few SJWs out there that call themselves engineers, but they're not really engineers and not a statistically relevant percentage of the profession. Real engineers focus on facts, figures, and objective reality not feelings and social issues, and all the other assorted BS associated with SJWs. In fact the whole SJW thing is anathema to real engineers. There's no rules, no algorithm, no solve it and move on resolution, no new technology...

I know what you're thinking - I'm just repeating and espousing stereotypes about engineers. You know what, you're right. You know why, because they (the stereotypes) are right. The really good engineers, the ones that know their stuff, love engineering and problem solving, the ones that actually make a difference to their companies, projects, peers? Guess what, they virtually all fit into one or more stereotypes about engineers. Sure, there are engineers out there that and merely mediocre engineers. They may have gotten into it for the $ or by default 'cause their parents or friends were, etc. They may not fit the stereotypes but they also barely qualify as engineers. Real engineers don't do it because it is a good job or pays well etc. Real engineers are engineers because that's just who and what we are. We're the ones pushing the shopping cart through the store thinking "I'll bet I could make this lighter and less likely to jumble everything at the back crushing my bread..." We really, honestly don't give a rip about any SJW "cause du-jour" it's not interesting. You tell us you want a new water purification system now that might be fun. You start talking about how corporate farming is oppressing people and we tune out. We'll sit there and nod apparently attentively, but we're really only using maybe 5% of our conscious thought process to track your blathering, meanwhile we're thinking about something interesting, like fixing that python script, or maybe getting that set of impact sockets, and I need to see if there are any new developments in LED flashlight technology in the past couple of months...