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Our companies are donating masses of money and promoting organizations that are propogating #shutdownSTEM and #abolishthepolice. You can believe that black lives matter but think the current situation could take us back to the dark ages. You can agree that POC have every reason to be upset and angry but push back when they target science itself. Do we really have to ignore the protests when talking about the new COVID spikes? We want so badly to not be racist that we can't let on that we notice that not everything right now is good. There are so many things we can do to help close the race gap, but shutting down stem and abolishing the police are so obviously NOT going to help underprivileged folks, and yet no company I'm aware of has the gall to do anything but change their logo and donate to bail funds. If it's because they are afraid of employees quitting then it's us in tech that are the problem. How do we have the intellect to work out here yet allow ourselves to be shut up? How much is your voice worth? I don't feel like I can even point out high quality research conducted by a POC if it goes against these protests. I'm sure that I'm not alone in feeling something is very off. Even if I might agree that all this is justified and will result in progress, seeing the biggest tech companies clamour to show how blindly empathetic they are by supporting the actual shutdown of science is something I never thought possible. If you're confused or have no idea what I'm talking about, Nature and Science magazine were both literally bullied into tweeting the #shutdownSTEM hashtag recently. If you care to see why this movement isn't all good, let me recommend some mainstream and well respected things from very left-wing individuals. Look up Roland Fryer JPE article from 2016 paper on police shootings (Roland is an outstanding black Harvard economist). Or listen to the 'Can we pull back from the brink?' episode from the Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris. This matters because so much of the world's wealth and influence comes from our little companies. We need to do more to fight against the culture that makes us fear for our jobs if we say the wrong word. We need reason to come back, to welcome discussions, and let people realize that disagreeing with propaganda is not a sign of bigotry. Does anyone else out there feel this way? What can we do to make discussion and dissent acceptable again? #uspolitics #politics
You are not alone. I feel the same like you. But I would say nothing. People like us may be the majority. The only time we have freedom of speech is the election.
Nope. You’re not alone. I’m worried about the same thing. I feel if we continue on our current trajectory we’re gonna roll back the last 70years of civil rights wins. I just stopped funding AAAS over their #shutdownSTEM support.
Yep, way to go!
100%. Remember that the loudest people rarely represent the majority, even though it may seem like it because they’re all you can hear.
The irony of people not understanding #shutdownSTEM 🤦♂️
Did you guys notice how, when we take the woke SJWs by their own word and actions, there’s always some magical, non-evil meaning to it all? “You need to educate yourself on what defunding the police _really_ means!” “So tiring when people don’t want to research what shutting STEM down _really_ means”
“Defund the police” is a contested demand that means different things to liberals, progressives, and leftists. “ShutdownSTEM” has one meaning... a symbolic one day boycott by people in these fields.
What’s #shutdownstem?
Promoting the abolition of STEM (science technology engineering mathematics)
Who’s calling for that and why?