March for science activists denounce bombing "oppressed people." (ISIS) - We all knew this was coming eventually.

ISIS are gud bois dey din du nuffin. just tryn 2 git money fo dem programs!

The organization behind the “March for Science” tweeted the Trump administration’s bombing Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan is “an example of how science is weaponized against marginalized people.”

The march’s Twitter account sent out the tweet lamenting the bombing in reply to a post by activist Zellie Imani with the Black Liberation Collective — a group of students dedicated to “bringing about freedom and liberation for all Black people.”

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/13/m...trumps-bombing-of-marginalized-isis-fighters/

 

[nonnewtonian]

Yeah, why can't the US use science in peaceful ways like flying planes into buildings and running over crowds with trucks and blowing up innocent civilians with bombs?

 

[cypocryphy]

More proof that SJW's can't grasp that the whole world isn't the United States. Muslims and Arabs are actually the majority in their own nations. Quite a shock I know.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

No but for real best timeline forever

 

[Sailor_Jupiter]

...are they implying that minorities are too stupid to use science..? Because that's kind of what it sounds like.

 

[Ruin]

It's even funnier because it's BLM defending the people who operate the slave trade in northern Africa today and calling them oppressed. What total fucking morons.

 

[Grog]

You don't understand their mindset: everything that Trump or another Republican does is bad, even if they're contradictory things.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

If you're a terrorist, you deserve to be marginalized from society and then killed.

 

[Ravenor]

And they STEM isn't infested...

...Seriously though for a second the MOAB wasn't new technology FAB's haven been around for a long fucking time, the problem is not the technology it's the man who dropped it if this happened 12 months before there would not have been this outcry if anything it would have been an outpouring of support for his brave stance.

This wasn't science in action this was the real world in action, I'll give you a little history lesson the man who invented dynamite read his erroneously published obituary calling him "The merchant of death" he invented it not for it's use in war he invented it to make mining safer as nitroglycerin is really touchy stuff and lot's of people carrying out peaceful activities died in industrial accidents.

It was not his fault that he created something for one use then other people realised it's used in other fields that he didn't intend, but he was so shocked that he would be remembered as "The merchant of Death" he went out and endowed a commity that society is still with us it's called "The Nobel prize commity" and the man who created it was called "Alfred Nobel".

The main problem is not that he created something but how others applied his creation, the world's first stable and practical high explosive, somebody realised that they could stick into a shell and use it in war to give more bang for your buck, and most of the people who do that sort of thing they are not scientists (in the classic sense), they are engineers and inventors.

 

[Ineedahero]

The march’s Twitter account sent out the tweet lamenting the bombing in reply to a post by activist Zellie Imani with the Black Liberation Collective — a group of students dedicated to “bringing about freedom and liberation for all Black people.”

Boy are those students going to be pissed when they hit 4th grade and learn that black people were freed and liberated over a hundred years ago.

 

[Raging Capybara]

I'll give you a little history lesson the man who invented dynamite read his erroneously published obituary calling him "The merchant of death" he invented it not for it's use in war he invented it to make mining safer as nitroglycerin is really touchy stuff and lot's of people carrying out peaceful activities died in industrial accidents.

It was not his fault that he created something for one use then other people realised it's used in other fields that he didn't intend, but he was so shocked that he would be remembered as "The merchant of Death" he went out and endowed a commity that society is still with us it's called "The Nobel prize commity" and the man who created it was called "Alfred Nobel".

And now the nobel prize gives money to terrorists and serial killers like Mandela, funny how things turn out.

 

[Ravenor]

And now the nobel prize gives money to terrorists and serial killers like Mandela, funny how things turn out.

Yea mythologising surrounding that man is amazing but say anything even slightly negative about him you get shouted down in all sorts of horrible ways.

 

[Secret Asshole]

I wouldn't call these people scientists. The March for Science is basically just another thinly veiled BLM. STEM is generally slightly liberal but a lot of people have resigned because of the focus on gender, identity politics and intersectionality. Not to mention the whole thing is infestes with Social Scientists, a garbage field.

Like any progressive protest nowadays, the message will be diffused among 100 different issues and confuse people. This basically proves that it has naught to do with science and is just another garbage progressive shitfest. And all scientists will get painted with this retarded brush, especially those who want to stay apolitical.

Scientists would be better off hiring a lobbying firm or lobbying directly to Congress.

 

[Quack]

I honestly wonder how many of the "March for Science" lot are real scientists, and how many are redditor-tier "science fans" who idolise Bill Nye and Black Science Man. You only have to glance at RationalWiki to see what that lot do when allowed free rein, basically co-opting scientific terminology for political points.

Anecdotally, my experience is that scientists tend to run the political gamut, but there is a bit of a selection bias, as the top universities tend to get their students from the upper middle class resulting in a slight plurality of liberal internationalist types. The British EU referendum was an example of this, with strong institutional support for Remain in UK unis, but every lab I saw had at least a couple of Leave supporters.

 

[Lackadaisy]

I honestly wonder how many of the "March for Science" lot are real scientists, and how many are redditor-tier "science fans" who idolise Bill Nye and Black Science Man. You only have to glance at RationalWiki to see what that lot do when allowed free rein, basically co-opting scientific terminology for political points.

Anecdotally, my experience is that scientists tend to run the political gamut, but there is a bit of a selection bias, as the top universities tend to get their students from the upper middle class resulting in a slight plurality of liberal internationalist types. The British EU referendum was an example of this, with strong institutional support for Remain in UK unis, but every lab I saw had at least a couple of Leave supporters.

Fun fact: they actually kicked Bill Nye out for being a honkey.

 

[Secret Asshole]

I honestly wonder how many of the "March for Science" lot are real scientists, and how many are redditor-tier "science fans" who idolise Bill Nye and Black Science Man. You only have to glance at RationalWiki to see what that lot do when allowed free rein, basically co-opting scientific terminology for political points.

Anecdotally, my experience is that scientists tend to run the political gamut, but there is a bit of a selection bias, as the top universities tend to get their students from the upper middle class resulting in a slight plurality of liberal internationalist types. The British EU referendum was an example of this, with strong institutional support for Remain in UK unis, but every lab I saw had at least a couple of Leave supporters.

My bet is 50% of 'I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE' types, 45% Humanities and Social Science and 5% actual scientists.

And yeah, scientists really tend to be everywhere politically. Lots of libertarian types, even met a few who doubt climate change is man made and they were pretty smart and got tenure. Though mostly they tend to keep their political beliefs to themselves. Politics is the last thing science wants to inject as they already have enough trouble getting funding. This will only hurt scientists, not help.

 

[Absolutego]

>March for Women taken over by Islamists like Linda Sarsour, push hijabis as feminist icons
>March for Science taken over by pro-ISIS activists buttmad about them getting bombed

At this point any left-wing protest march is borderline guaranteed to turn into a Muslim front, tbh. The left is going to destroy itself by aligning with radical Islam for political expediency and driving away anyone who has even a modicum of self-awareness.

 

[76LD910]

You don't understand their mindset: everything that Trump or another Republican does is bad, even if they're contradictory things.

It wasn't even the administration that did this, Trump gave the military authorization to use whatever means they saw fit and they chose to use the MOAB in this particular instance.

Boy are those students going to be pissed when they hit 4th grade and learn that black people were freed and liberated over a hundred years ago.

I always visit Islamic/Arab boards when things like this happen, as usual the news that this didn't cause any civilian casualties didn't get anywhere near the same response as the first ones where every reply was speculating that this killed dozens or hundreds of people. You can sense the ass-hurt they feel from not getting the validation they craved.

 

[Pikimon]

Anecdotally, my experience is that scientists tend to run the political gamut, but there is a bit of a selection bias, as the top universities tend to get their students from the upper middle class resulting in a slight plurality of liberal internationalist types. The British EU referendum was an example of this, with strong institutional support for Remain in UK unis, but every lab I saw had at least a couple of Leave supporters.

In general the scientific community skews to the left, any right leaning elements are mostly libertarian ayn rand-lite kind of people. However the scientific community is a lot harder to pin down politically since most of their time is spent on research on their extremely specific and specialized field and writing articles about said research.

Politics tends to mostly concern them when it affects funding or research (which the vast majority of the time its right-leaning elements either banning fields of research such as stem cell research and climate data or cutting funding to "balance the budget").

 

[millais]

sounds more like "March for (Social) Science" to me