[Rockhounds] They are coming for you now

[Carol J Bova]

Dora, 
It’s not fake news. It’s a report on a piece titled, "An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations"
 published at nature.com <http://nature.com/>. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23936-w <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23936-w> 
Read the  source document before you decide the reporting was inappropriate or bigoted.

The Washington Free Beacon provided a reasonable counterpoint to that report in the statements by Christopher Sanfilippo, a lead researcher for the National Association of Scholars' Sciences Project. They cited him as saying "the push for intersectionality in hard sciences will hurt America's scientific stature,” along with his statements supporting his point of view.

Try reading both pieces again without prejudging. By the way, there is no store.  The Free Beacon supports itself through advertising, as another blog I write for does. Such advertising isn’t always a good match for the blog or newsletter, but it is income that allows them to publish material you often don’t see in main stream press.   

Carol

> On Jul 10, 2021, at 12:31 AM, Dora Smith <tiggernut24 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I dug the original post out of my trash bin.
> 
> Look at the rest of the articles, and look what's for sale in their store - this is a right wing rag.
> 
> Don't worry about what its author thinks.  It's seriously fake news.  It could just have a bigoted slant on something someone actually said, but, I strongly suspect it's a straight out lie.
> 
> https://freebeacon.com/campus/science-journal-geology-is-racist/
> 
> Dora
> 
> On 7/9/21 3:59 PM, J Bryan Kramer wrote:
>> " Top geologists condemned systemic white supremacy in the field of
>> geoscience, which concerns the study of earth and rocks, in a manifesto
>> published at the scientific journal *Nature* *Communications*. The
>> academics claim black people are hesitant to take up geology because they
>> fear being killed while handling basic geology tools as a result of the
>> stereotype associated with black people "holding objects."
>> 
>> <https://freebeacon.com/campus/science-journal-geology-is-racist/>
>> 
>> ““There exists a law…inborn of our hearts…by natural intuition. … If our
>> lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any
>> and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.””
>> Cicero
>> 
>> J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
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