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“White Logic” and “Jew Physics”. Campus radicals have refreshed an ugly 1930s trope.
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 10, 2023 | Stanley K. Ridgley

Posted on 11/11/2023 10:59:10 AM PST by karpov

When we think of “Newspeak,” the fictional language invented by George Orwell for his dystopian novel 1984, we typically think of powerful authoritarian governments manipulating language for the advancement of power and ideology. In such a case, the language substitutes for reality itself to protect the perceived infallibility of totalitarian leadership and its totalist ideology.

But the battle for language is not restricted to governments. Newspeak develops wherever a totalist ideology emerges—it is, in fact, a necessary characteristic of the ideology. Such battles for language dominance are ongoing all the time, and the chief locus for these battles is the university campus, that petri dish of leftist ideologies.

Today’s best example of this language struggle is the rigid artificial vernacular adopted by those who propound critical racialism. Critical racialism is an umbrella term that captures the indistinguishable variants of critical race theory, critical pedagogy, antiracist pedagogy, “decolonization,” and the odd, degenerative project of “indigenous knowledge.”

This vernacular and its ritual use arise from the stolid linguistic formula caricatured by Orwell’s Newspeak: 1) division of the world into a binary of those who are correct and those who are not and 2) paranoid, broad-brush labeling of opponents, as was done in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Communist China.

The first part of the formula is little more than crude, circular sophistry—it means that I am correct and you are wrong, because I have critical consciousness and you have false consciousness. Because this childlike assertion is nowhere acceptable for modern discourse, an entire vernacular is constructed to prop it up, and mantras are repeated ad nauseam to establish a faux legitimacy. In fact, the endless repetition of bombastic assertions is characteristic of all social-justice themes.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: academia; college; domesticenemies; education
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1 posted on 11/11/2023 10:59:10 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Yeah, well, those “Jewish Physics” helped come up with the Atom Bomb, something the Nazis might have wished they had.


2 posted on 11/11/2023 10:59:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Try reading the article


3 posted on 11/11/2023 11:04:08 AM PST by Glennb51
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To: karpov

Physics is physics—whoever develops or discovers it!! And physics is hard—I struggled with it as an MIT freshman until I “got it”!!

Phooey to the Nazis and to the neo-Nazi Palestinians!!!!


4 posted on 11/11/2023 11:06:48 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: karpov
I ran into this the other day while rereading Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - forgive me for the length but I think it's apropos:

The result of so much Nazification was catastrophic for German education and for German learning. History was so falsified in the new textbooks and by the teachers in their lectures that it became ludicrous. The teaching of the "racial sciences" exalting the Germans as the master race and the Jews as breeders of almost all the evil there was in the world, was even more so. In the University of Berlin alone, where so many great scholars had taught in the past, the new rector, a storm trooper and by profession a veterinarian, instituted twenty-five new courses in Rassenkunde - racial science...

The teaching of the natural sciences, in which Germany had been so pre-eminent for generations, deteriorated rapidly. Great teachers such as Einstein and Franck in physics, Haber, Willstaetter and Warburg in chemistry, were fired or retired. Those who remained, many of them, were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science. They began to teach what they called German physics, German chemistry, German mathematics. Indeed, in 1937 there appeared a journal called Deutsche Mathematik, and its first editorial solemnly proclaimed that any idea that mathematics could be judged nonracially carried "within itself the germs of destruction of German science."

The hallucinations of these Nazi scientists became unbelievable, even to a layman. "German Physics?" asked Professor Philipp Lenard of Heidelberg University, who was one of the more learned and internationally respected scientists of the Third Reich. "'But,' it will be replied, 'science is and remains international.' It is false. In reality, science, like every other human product, is racial and conditioned by blood."

William Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, book II, chapter 8, "Life in the Third Reich"

It's happening again.

5 posted on 11/11/2023 11:08:03 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: karpov

It’s really hard to believe even a village idiot could be stupid enough to believe this tripe. Yet, this seems to have infected American universities, especially the more elite ones. Which speaks volumes about the horrid state of American academia.


6 posted on 11/11/2023 11:08:06 AM PST by rbg81
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To: karpov

Aren’t Jewish people white?


7 posted on 11/11/2023 11:30:32 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: Billthedrill

I have that book and it is horrible what the nazis did to learning at that time.


8 posted on 11/11/2023 11:40:16 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: dfwgator

Yes. The Nazis rejected the work of Einstein simply because he was a Jew. Bad for them. Good for us.

That was later modified, a little. Yes, the Nazis said. You can use “Jewish physics”. Just don’t acknowledge where that physics came from. I suppose that put the chill on the German atomic scientists. Better not accidentally mention a Jew!

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/why-the-nazi-atomic-bomb-never-happened/


9 posted on 11/11/2023 11:45:04 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Glennb51

I read it and LOVED reading it. There is nothing better for a voracious page-at-a-glance reader like I am to ingest something from a wordsmith like this writer is.

Thank you!


10 posted on 11/11/2023 11:45:40 AM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: rbg81

Indeed.


11 posted on 11/11/2023 11:47:35 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dfwgator; karpov

In Germany there was quite a lot of ill feeling between experimental and theoretical physicists. Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Prise for inventing differential equations. Otherwise, any advancement in that area was considered “Jew Physics”. I think Albert Speer shut their bomb program down in 1943?


12 posted on 11/11/2023 12:05:07 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: alternatives?

Many but not all. A mutual friend is a black Jew…and not whatever that group is which thinks black people were the original Hebrews.


13 posted on 11/11/2023 12:15:38 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: karpov

That “Jew Physics” is gonna hit Iran in the not too distant future.


14 posted on 11/11/2023 12:19:21 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Retain Mike

Differential equations predate Heisenberg by almost 300 years. Newton in his Chapter 2 of his 1671 work Methodus fluxionum et Serierum Infinitarum, Isaac Newton listed three kinds of differential equations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_equation#History

Heisenberg “invented” matrix mechanics applying the mathematic theory of matrices to quantum mechanics.


15 posted on 11/11/2023 12:26:37 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: Reily

yep. You are right.


16 posted on 11/11/2023 12:50:06 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: alternatives?
Aren’t Jewish people white?

It depends on who you ask. And when.

17 posted on 11/11/2023 12:50:34 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: isthisnickcool

I saw the documentary when I was a child and that experience gave me a lifelong interest in WWII and the Holocaust.


18 posted on 11/11/2023 1:10:41 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: karpov

E = MC2 is “Jew Physics”, who knew?


19 posted on 11/11/2023 1:44:47 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: rfp1234

E = MC2 is “Jew Physics”, who knew?

E = hν + Vo.
E² = (pc)² + (mc²)²,
For m=0, E = pc, or E = mc².


20 posted on 11/11/2023 5:16:21 PM PST by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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