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Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture

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Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Joachim Frank says:
 | 
 | In the first days after the inauguration, the Federal
 | officers of the National Science Foundation were directed
 | to scan 55,000 grant proposals for the mention of the word
 | "diversity". Evidently, "diversity" is a word with generic
 | meaning in the English language. A grant proposal might
 | contain the phrases "diversity of protein structures" or
 | "diversity of opinions in the literature."  But that is
 | tolerable diversity, while the objective of this hunt is to
 | find references to fostering and protecting the bad kind,
 | the ethnic and gender diversity among humans, and the
 | diversity in color of their skin.
 | 
 | This official censorship, unparalleled in the history of
 | the United States, betrays a magical belief in the power of
 | words.  But, beyond censorship, we are reminded of
 | classical witch trials, in which the use of a single word,
 | sign, or gesture is construed as "evidence" in a
 | life-or-death decision. Now the mere mention of efforts to
 | ensure workplace diversity may disqualify scientific
 | research from funding and even ruin a career.  We hear
 | echoes of "Nineteen Eighty Four" and "Fahrenheit 451".
 | 
 | Let us here celebrate the word "diversity" in its many
 | diverse forms, in as many languages (about 200) as are
 | listed in Google Translate. This is, mind you, just one
 | quarter of the number of languages spoken on the streets in
 | New York City, by people with all skin colors, genders, and
 | beliefs who make this city, and America as a whole, such an
 | exciting place.
 | ...
<https://www.albany.edu/offcourse/issue100/frank_diversity.html>

    --bks

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Trump/Musk Cancel Culture bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-02-11 15:10 +0000
  Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> - 2025-02-11 18:30 +0000
  Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-02-12 07:08 -0500
    Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-02-13 11:22 +0000
      Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-02-13 07:00 -0500
        Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-02-20 12:28 +0000
          Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-02-27 13:57 +0000
            Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-02-27 11:57 -0500
              Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-03-07 03:28 +0000
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> - 2025-03-07 14:43 +0000
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-03-10 21:01 +0000
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> - 2025-03-11 01:59 +0000
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture "J.J. McCullough" <J.J.McCullough@gmail.com> - 2025-03-11 17:14 +0000
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-03-11 07:20 -0400
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-03-12 07:31 -0400
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-03-15 13:28 +0000
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-03-15 10:20 -0400
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-03-16 08:58 -0400
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-03-17 06:53 -0400
                Re: Trump/Musk Cancel Culture Peter Kent Navarro <dagosodomite@trump.sodom> - 2025-03-11 17:13 +0000

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