In physics, black is a "color" which results from the absence of visible light. These days, "black" is the absence of all common sense.
Posted on 07/14/2021 12:08:17 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Cornell University has introduced an astronomy course to explore the connection between the term black holes and “racial blackness” — proof, say critics, that even the hard sciences aren’t immune to universal “racial hysteria.”
The course, titled “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos,” uses work from black studies theorists, artists and fiction writers to challenge “conventional wisdom” about the role that race plays in astronomy.
“Conventional wisdom would have it that the ‘black’ in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there?” reads the college catalog description.
Students at the Ivy League school are taught that readings, music and art “implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection,” according to the description.
“Theorists use astronomy concepts like ‘black hole’ and ‘event horizons’ to interpret the history of race in creative ways, while artists and musicians conjure blackness through cosmological themes and images,” the description says.
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Of course, all the TAs are Chinese now, so they can act dumb and get away with it.
Total waste of tuition money.
The discussion about Black Ice has been raging for decades too.
We need Neil DeGrasse Tyson to comment on this.
But I thought these same commies told us that race is a social construct. Are they now saying that black holes are also a social construct? I think there’s a doctoral dissertation in that question for some enterprising young moron.
In physics, black is a "color" which results from the absence of visible light. These days, "black" is the absence of all common sense.
Throw them a bone. Just tell them from a financial point of view, being in the black is good, and being in the red, is bad.
Black holes equal American cities. You know it. I know it. It’s a dog whistle for hell holes. And we all know the reason why.
The institutional debate has become a parody of a parody of itself. The conceptual foolishness and its attendant fools are bounded by nothing in their feverish bid to outdo themselves.
I used to think in terms of decades when it came to the downfall of this country if people didn’t turn it around. Now I think the US has only a few years left.
Just don’t tell the students that black holes are really pink like everyone else’s.
The purpose of the modern university is to make students as stupid as possible as quickly as possible.
Soon you will not be able to say a starless night sky “is pitch black”.
It will be “taught” that any use of the color black is “racist”. That is not sarcasm, it is the direction radical academia is pushing things.
Scientists have recently discovered that stupidity is related to the existence of idiots. This idiot Cornell prof is case in point.
Guess I need to cancel my WHITE water rafting trip, repaint that WHITE washed fence, gonna make me look WHITE as a ghost, maybe a trip to the WHITE house instead or catch a game with WHITE Sox
What we need to do is ban color. And descriptions of color.
The purpose of the modern university is to make students as stupid as possible as quickly as possible.
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Higher education simplified - ASAPAQAP
Are they going to hire don lemon to teach this farce?
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