College Chem Prof Eschews, Disdains Using Names of Male Scientists Who Discovered Laws of Science

P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 29, 2024
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My high school chemistry teacher unexpectedly left during Christmas break. We were told the reasons were “emotional and psychological,” and the school principal thought it was “better that way.” What we discovered when her replacement arrived was that Teacher One-Point-O had taught us virtually nothing useful, and so, mid-year, we were left, essentially, to fend for ourselves…

Fast forward to Georgia, 2024, and a lecturer at tax-subsidized Kennesaw State University, where the students get to suffer through their own madhouse…

Jennifer Kabbany reports for The College Fix:

“Lecturer Rebekah Cordeiro told her chemistry class Oct. 2 that, under her pedagogy, she does not prioritize learning the names of laws named after white men because it ‘doesn’t matter,’ according to an audio clip of the comment provided exclusively to The College Fix this week.”

Surely, Seventeenth-century Irish scientist Robert Boyle might quibble with her approach. So, too, might students who like to respect the people who made these discoveries and students who prefer to use the shorthand of something like “Boyle’s Law” rather than the long recitation of, “pressure is inversely proportional to the volume of an ideal gas.”

Once the efficient human mind grasps a process or long-form title, it often converts that to shorthand.

But, curses upon those who diverge from Ms. Cordeiro’s arrogant, dismissive, woke approach to science. And, curses upon you if you notice that she reserves the dismissal of names only when they are attached to scientific laws discovered by white men.

Evidently, the use of discoverers’ surnames is fine, as long as it doesn’t acknowledge the eeeevil white, hetero, male.

Because, in the post-post-modern West, it’s laudable to prejudge and show disrespect to individuals, as long as those individuals are part of a group called “white, hetero, men,” or, as Cordeiro puts it in the recording, “dead white dudes.”

“I am not going to ask you, ‘Which one is Boyle’s Law?’ ‘Which one is Charles’s law?’ Because I don’t think it’s very important for you to know all these dead white dudes’ names like that, it doesn’t matter. What matters is the relationship between the variables, that you understand the relationship, and that you can use these laws in the math.”

This might be an easily dismissed comment if, for example, the lecturer were making “air quotes” we can’t see, and speaking in an ironic tone, i.e. to mock the idea of wokeness. But Kennesaw State suffers from an atmosphere of thick, noisome wokeness.

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Writes Kabbany:

“Cordeiro, as well as Marina Koether, interim chair of the Department of Chemistry, did not respond to emails Wednesday and Thursday seeking comment. Tammy DeMel, the university’s spokesperson, also did not respond to The College Fix’s emails and a phone call.

The audio clip was provided to The Fix by Kennesaw State University finance Professor David Bray, an outspoken critic of diversity, equity and inclusion dogma. Bray said a student in the class trusted him with the audio clip because of his ongoing campaigns against DEI ideology.”

One gets the sense that, as so often is the case, the leftist pushers of so-called “toleration” are the intolerant ones, who use their purported and self-described “sensitivity” as a rhetorical and socio-political weapon to propagandize, destroy previous achievements, wipe out individuality, gain leverage through identity-politics, and direct the indoctrinated students to become part of their politically-focused power bloc.

“Bray called the incident a ‘symptom of the current campus environment, where you can say just about anything you want to about a particular race-gender combination, i.e. white men, and no one bats an eye.’

He said the student told him there are several white students in the class but no one spoke up.”

Thus, this story from Georgia offers two lessons. The first, of course, is the astronomical hypocrisy of leftists who, if they had chosen targets other than “dead white guys” to malign or dismiss, would have been cited as being intolerant, racist, and sexist. The poisonous learning environment such a twisted mindset creates is clear.

But what often goes unmentioned is the unseen taxpayer, the person who is not in the class but is forced to support it, and who cannot turn away in disgust, because if he or she does, the government will attack.

Marxists of the world want that. They want to force people to subsidize the propagation of their ideas – ideas they use to enlarge political power blocks.

Doing better in education means doing right by one’s neighbor.

It means leaving him or her alone to retain the fruits of his or her labor, not subsidize nonsense like this.

 

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