Posted on 08/07/2025 5:40:05 AM PDT by MAGA2017
When Professor Catherine D’Ignazio isn’t running the “Data + Feminism” lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing “reproductive justice hackathons” she is fighting Donald Trump’s “state terrorism.”
The urban studies professor, and “data feminism” scholar, recently explained “how U.S. universities can survive state terrorism” in an essay for Academe Blog.
“What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to ‘send a message’ —to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior,” Professor D’Ignazio (pictured) explains.
“The US government’s detentions of students such as [Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa] Öztürk constitute a burgeoning form of state terrorism, particularly when considered alongside other acts of political violence and coercion,” she wrote. “These include using taxpayer dollars for deporting undocumented workers—some while they were seeking food outside homeless shelters, dropping their kids off at daycare, or driving to their high school volleyball practice.”
“The Trump administration’s strategy conjoins specific instances of threats and violence with widely reported media representations in order to spread fear,” the professor wrote. “This is what distinguishes the current violence of the state as terrorist. It is not only a judicial project but also a public relations project and a strategic communications project.”
Even “left- and center-leaning” publications like the New York Times play a role in promoting fear, the professor said.
It’s no wonder then that one-third of her paid time goes to fighting “state terrorism.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
BTTT
And MIT pays her well for this!!!
I’m glad my son went to Rose-Hulman instead.
Pretty sure she smells like weed and Strawberry Boones Farm.
running the “Data + Feminism” lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
organizing “reproductive justice hackathons”
MIT? And they let this joke in as a faculty member? How the mighty have fallen. In STEM, she could only be hired as a janitor.
“I’m interested in creative ways to democratize data science, AI, and technology for social justice..”
Pure nonsense. Good grief.
That’s a professor who should be fired so that she can concentrate full time on her quest.
Sounds like she needs fired.
I don't even want to think about what she spends the other two-thirds of her paid time doing!
I definitely don't want to think about what she does during her free time.
"fitting the data"
Could there possibly be a more worthless person in the entire USA?
* “Data + Feminism” lab
* “reproductive justice hackathons”
* “urban studies”
* “data feminism”
I would be extremely embarrassed to admit I was doing any of that garbage with my life. But I’m sure her mom and dad are very proud because that apple fell right next to the tree trunk.
This female ran a bit of academic fluff -- MIT Is Hosting Hackathons To 'Make The Breast Pump Not Suck' Lefty HuffPost, 12 September 2014
Towards the end of article: "While about 20 people participated in the first breast pump hackathon, this second meeting of the minds will be attended by 60-80."
She is a self-promoter, first and foremost, as are so many Democrats and left-of-Democrat types. She's whining that deporting people who have no legal right to be in these United States is "state terrorism."
It is a simple concept:
‘If you disagree with me, you are a terrorist.’
In Gulliver’s Travels, the war between two of the factions was started because of the difference in how people cracked their eggs open at breakfast. Some from the little end, some from the big end.
Another Ho with a diploma. They’re giving them away these days.
“data feminism”
Which values are female, the ones, or the zeros? Or are her data non-binary?
Left is growing themselves into a full blown insurrection front. Not just by ideology but in coordinating elements with goals to overthrow the US government.
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