Academic Rigor is RACIST!

A Purdue University engineering professor recently lamented the emphasis on academic "rigor," calling it a “dirty deed” that upholds “white male heterosexual privilege.”

The leader of Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education recently declared that academic “rigor” reinforces “white male heterosexual privilege.”

Donna Riley, who previously taught engineering at Smith College for 13 years, published an article in the most recent issue of the journal Engineering Education, arguing that academic rigor is a “dirty deed” that upholds “white male heterosexual privilege.”

Donna Riley calls for doing away with the notion of academic rigor entirely, suggesting that higher education pursue "other ways of knowing" in order to "build a community for inclusive and holistic engineering education."

Defining rigor as “the aspirational quality academics apply to disciplinary standards of quality,” Riley asserts that “rigor is used to maintain disciplinary boundaries, with exclusionary implications for marginalized groups and marginalized ways of knowing.”

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Yes goy, anything outside of remedial math is racist and sexist.We must get rid of calculus and science to help make things equal. Arithmetic, and if you're really good Geometry I, are all you need to succeed.

Certifications will be the way of the future. They don't give two shits about your race, gender, or who you fuck.

> Anyone can register (in most cases...field specific)
> No hand holding of students
> No good girl points for having a vagina
> Costs less money
> Must learn the material to pass
> Only the strong and smart survive

Straight up if colleges keep pushing this AA kumbaya help the poor minority/women shit they might actually devalue a degree. Forget free college making degrees worthless they'll do it to themselves by lowering the standards so niggers, FOB chinks, and illegals can graduate.

Part of me is ok with this. Small start ups go incognito, hire only smart, talented people, and make money on the sly.

I'm done working for corporations where it's 'cool' to work and act like they are doing you a favor by employing you because of how cool they are.

kill me or yourself, I don't fucking care at this point.

Because of le 56%, a lot of colleges are now trying to court whites because they're the ones with the money and status. On the surface they want (((diversity))) but deep down they want and need rich white students to keep paying their huge tuition bills to keep the ponzi scheme running

Wait a second - this is from an engineering professor? LOL!

Opting out of math courses because of white male privilege sure sounds dangerous to me when, I don't know, building buildings, designing engines on vehicles, putting shit into orbit, etc.

Maybe I'm wrong - not an engineer. I know, KMS.

Jesus effing Christ, read her biography.
smith.edu/swg/faculty_riley.php

> leveraging best practices from women's studies and ethnic studies
> repositioning concerns about diversity in science and engineering from superficial measures of equity as headcounts
>de-centering Western civilization

STEM is lost.
China won. It knew it was behind in technology and tertiary education, so it destroyed it from within.

>smith.edu/swg/faculty_riley.php
Don't professors in South Korean universities teach the same?

>left: rigor is racist!
>right: rigor is post-modernist crap! lets burn books as the nazis did

wew, arguments are dead

Don't have sjw in engineering. The threat comes indirectly though the use of western textbooks, but profs and students want the practical info so they won't get lost in the weeds about muh representation.

Prof Riley appears to be focused on how engineering is taught and also de-emphasising work created by white males. "Let's teach the engineering of the Khmer Rouge!"

She's indoctrinating future educators.

More and more I think if graduates want to make it in the west, they'll have to move to another country outside the west that can offer them a job.

Even with engineering, in fact especially with engineering.

>rigor is post-modernist crap
You fucking wot m8?

>taught engineering at Smith College for 13 years
You have to be joking.

the right hates the academical approach as much as the left

No, we hate that rigor has been abandoned for SJW bullshit like quotas and letting niggers get college degrees

>>right: rigor is post-modernist crap! lets burn books as the nazis did

what kind of books did the nazis burn?

i hear it was mostly jew pornography

Because it's stepped away from rigour and adopted post-modernist crap, you gibbering retard.

well post-modernism is actually debated in universities, thats the whole point of rigor, the standards for arguments.

While the same can't be said for what the right is willing to do. Its not that hard to argue against post-modernism, yet the rigor is thrown out the window when it comes to this issues.

>post-modernism is actually debated
Only in the same way we debate if the kikes or niggers need to hang first.

No, it isn't. Post-modernist (((reasoning))) that isn't founded on well-formed arguments is copied by students because it's the new thang. There is no reason to discuss it as it has no base in the first place.

you should write about your great arguments against 'post-modernism'

we live in an age of google, its not that hard to look up if your willing to change your mind, or be critical. Even of the fan favorites on Sup Forums, the nazis.

>Sup Forums rigor
same asyou should write about your great arguments against 'post-modernism'

>marginalized ways of knowing

She thinks that she has finally cracked the code with this statement.

I'll take the designs that are a product of "academic rigor" when my life depends on it.

That's the point, we're not really interested in arguments any more. Nobody in their right mind would try to engage with this
youtube.com/watch?v=ZOR0eQOyuPQ

thats my point too the left and right are beyond arguments, rigor is no more

Heading towards idiocracy.

Good, you're learning. We purge the degenerates and then we can have nice things again.

I just want the best design as an affordable cost that will not kill me. Nothing about the engineer's race, gender, or sexual orientation needs to be a variable in the formulas and algorithms used to design.

i also heard the nazis burned (((research))) on trannies

The goal is to devalue them. They are destroying the institution. Making the whole thing worthless. Then stupid is equal

>Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education
>engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/AboutUs

Has anyone looked at this "School of Engineering Education" and figured out what it teaches?

W know mechanical engineering teaches mechanics, we known computer science teaches computers, we know chemical engineering teaches chemicals. But just what in the fuck does the School of Engineering Education teach? I went to their website, I can't fucking figure it out!

It's administrative. Those who can do, those who can't become HR.

I graduated in philosophy. Take for example Derrida one of his main critics is that he takes some hierarchy in history of philosophy for example that logos is speech and not written work and makes the case for written work. What known people who copy him do is looking for/creating such cases and flip the hierarchy. However, there is no motivation at all for doing so. Furthermore, there is a practice in semantic overloading. That takes the meaning of expressions only to make a case for irrelevance of anything such that anything goes. Additionally, post modernists don't care about the syntactic structure of an argument which is it's core but it's semantic reception which is subjective, and thus, they try to make a case for relativism again.

Haha. I'm looking forward to driving over bridges built by 80 iq niggers and sjws

good luck, il give you a generation of this supposed 'nice thing' to last, the nazis managed what, 10 years?. Its a shame you aren't learning, history would be a good subject

>marginalized ways of knowing.”
Philosophers have a lot to answer for.

Look out, we've got an enlightened centrist over here. Wubba lubba dub dub.

Im a sorta pragmatist myself, i have no stake in arguing about this, The argument is how one should strive for rigor oneself, before shitting on others. And in the case of Derrida, atleast some understanding, which can be hard as with most of these french philosophers

Read the Turner diaries.
It describes this exact situation and why we will eventually win.

Suddenly everything you don't like can be a rick&morty meme? No need for relevance?
Hardly, a centrist tho

Hitler was a fucking idiot. It's funny you think utterly normal attitudes from 20-30 years ago are equivalent to muh six gorillion, mind.

International students too. They now number 10-15% at many big state schools because rich mediocre Chinese will pay full freight and spend thousands of dollars on SAT prep classes (or cheating) to get a 1250 and raise the school average.

Woah who could have seen this coming

Quick rundown?

>marginalized ways of knowing
"Oh, so you don't even know any calculus or physics? That's fine, we place a lot of emphasis on marginalized ways of knowing. I can see that you're a nigger, so you obviously just intuitively understand the concepts of engineering. I am going to hire you as the project lead to build our next bridge!"

Correct. This sounds like a sandbox to hire a couple women/POC and pay some lip service to muh diversity in engineering. The problem is that it seems like they hired a lunatic (Smith college, seriously?) and are now at risk of having this bitch devalue the real world "brand" of what had once been a fairly prestigious engineering school.

In short, a pragmatist makes a desicion for what's reasonable or what he still can live with. A relativist makes a desicion for not making any distinction for the sake of it. There is no good in it if you argue for this sole purpose. Here on Sup Forums you've the shortcuts spelled out for example: relativism - slippery slope. Sometimes you see arguments but this place is for mind killing dank memes not arguments.

Mostly child porn (some of which was being uses as blackmail against German girls) and some communist stuff.

Yeah, just like the commies then, im sure whatever authoritarian dreamland you want, it wil work this time

>Small start ups go incognito, hire only smart, talented people, and make money on the sly.
i work for a company that is exactly this. everyone is a white man and we are crushing our competitors with a team half the size.

>the late 80s were an authoritarian dreamland

Elaborate

Elaborate

The free market wins again.

What are "other and marginalized ways of knowing"?

Please explain this to a dumb white mail like me.

Me too. Joined a small team of white men and it's insane how much we get done on a day compared to my old job. Night and day.

It's a short book, read it. It's not very good but what else are you gonna do, read something award winning about sassy black cowgirls learning about communism and free love from Amerindians?

Of course they say that. Academic rigor and evidence proved that communism is infantile ideology for failures, so now these failures are attacking the science and evidence as a tool that pointed towards their cowardice and incompetence.

Hey, Chinks can actually succeed. It's just that they cheat and lie to do it. But they can still pass with intelligence.

> (You)

dumb question but what does the (you) mean?

i've seen it before but i dont visit pol too often. i figure its not flattering fwiw

nigger lightning magic
youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

Feminist engineers with healing crystals and horoscopes maintaining our nuclear power stations soon.
And the Voodoo doctors should get their diversity quota of that job as well.

I love my current engineering professor, used to work in motor sports. Everyday he has useful advice on why it’s important to be the best, winning is the most important thing, and no one cares about second place.
Great guy, he can build pretty much anything.
I’d feel ripped of if I had a teacher like the one from Purdue.

That's where they are wrong.

Stupid will never be equal to smart.

Stupid will just be equal to educated.

They won't actually become practicing engineers, though. People like this "professor" basically want corporate gibs in the form of affirmative-action jobs. For example, instead of working as an engineer, an affirmative-action Purdue grad might work in a corporate "diversity and inclusion" office, doing very little in exchange for a nice salary. The title might be something like "Technology officer for diversity and inclusion." That's the goal here - and corporations are increasingly cooperating with this scam.

>hi, I'm a minority-loving soy-grill
>instructors shouldn't have the authority to use their judgement in whether a student understand the material or not
I hope someone steals her soy, and she goes and necks herself. This is just asinine.

>hurr durr 10 years
Yeah, and Nazi Germany wasn't the most powerful nation on the planet, not to mention it was surrounded by enemies.

If a powerful and/or isolated nation were to do this, Hitler's dream of a Thousand Year Reich might come true.

>Western knowledge is pathetic, to say the least
>Blablabla people in Africa can cast thunder to strike their enemies

I didn't know that being lazy and stupid made you a "marginalized group". But then again I'm sure this professor doesn't feel sorry for lazy and stupid white male students who drop out of engineering programs across America every semester. I hope this cunt has to spend the rest of her life wandering around the earth on the engineering marvels of her "holistic engineering" non-white all-star pupils who get lazy or sleepy one night while designing her airplane, car, escalator/elevator, etc. and gloss over things with shoddy work to invent the instrument of her painful gruesome death.

>math courses
Please subhuman, what engineers do isn't math.

I didn’t know you could construct bridges out of feels

let "holistic and knowing" niggers build her a parachute

then push her out of the plane

Ya because who wants the person designing bridges and airplanes to actually know what fuck they're doing?

That's it. I think I'd rather deal with overcoming the stigma of going to university in Russia or eastern Europe than dealing with western "universities".

keep at it universities (brainwashing facilities), keep doing exactly what you're doing

can't wait until you're all bankrupt and nobody would even consider attending

also, how come these brainwashing factories who get taxpayer money, and who are allowed to prioritize foreign students over domestic, and who are destroying society through propaganda, are also tax exempt? they have massive endowments and make billions in profits every year on their investments, yet they don't have to pay a dime in taxes - what a scam