Sheffield University and Darwin.
I know I recently cunted Sheffield “University”, but they’ve been at it again and I think it important to draw attention to their antics. Not content with dismissing Newton as a white saviour that deserves cancelling, they have turned their attention to Darwin because he held “racist views” and allegedly used his theory of natural selection to justify white male superiority. This is despite Darwin’s support for the abolition of slavery, which he called a “sacred cause” and said that it “makes one’s blood boil”.
The “university’ has also told staff and students to no longer call our greatest scientists “founding fathers”, “idols” or “geniuses” and to avoid “hero worshipping” scientific figures. Presumably because no white man can be a genius or a hero and references to patriarchy must be avoided. I presume that from now on we can only have “founding mothers”, as long as they are not white.
This “university” goes on to preach that this practice treats them as “white saviours” and erases less privileged scholars. The “whiteness and Eurocentrism of our science” must be dismantled, they declare. Who are these less privileged scholars? Darwin explained evolution and it accepted because the theory matches the observed facts. Privilege has nothing to do with it – Darwin was right and that’s that.
The “university” goes on to say that “science cannot be objective and apolitical…….the curriculum we teach must acknowledge how colonialism has shaped the field of evolutionary biology and how evolutionary biologists think today”. Unscientific garbage. Scientists teach evolution because it’s a scientific observation which has been proven to be correct.
It’s correct that evolution has been occasionally abused to justify racist doctrines. The Nazi’s famously did this. Isn’t the correct approach to say that evolution is correct as a scientific theory but it has been abused by some disreputable scientists with an ideological agenda to push? In other words, treat students as educated adults that can work out the truth for themselves. University is supposed to teach critical thinking after all.
A word of advice to any aspiring scientists. Avoid Sheffield “university “. You are likely to emerge from a course there as scientifically illiterate.
Cunts.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.894561!/file/Decolonise_Handbook.pdf
Nominated by: Marvellous Mechanical Cunting Machine
Seconded by..who would have thunk it..Marvellous Mechanical Cunting Machine:
If I might just add something further here.
It’s correct that the situation with Darwin is a bit more nuanced. He did regard whites to be advanced over dark-keys and men over women. But that, I’m afraid, was the accepted attitude of the day. Why draw attention to it? It’s the science that matters. A scientist is simply the conduit for a discovery. It matters not a jot what his personal beliefs are and he stands or falls on the science, nothing more.



