The University of Cambridge is launching a taxpayer-backed, bird-brained initiative to “decolonise the dodo” by investigating its Museum of Zoology collection. The Telegraph has the story.
The university is seeking a PhD student to investigate its collection of plants and animals to root out imperial connections in its Museum of Zoology.
The successful candidate will be tasked with setting out how specimens from tigers to dodos might be linked to “the European colonial story”.
Prompts for the project suggest this work could focus on racial ideas, “violent” colonial activity, and “resource exploitation”.
In an advertisement for the role, the university has stated that the project will help to present the history of botany and zoology as more diverse than famed European scientists, in order to make people “feel represented by museums”.
The project forms part of Cambridge’s efforts to address its own “legacies of enslavement and empire”, and is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which distributes taxpayer funding for research. …
The advertisement for the role with a £19,000 stipend also states that prominent objects in the museum collection reflect a “bias in the archive – centring, as they do, on prominent white naturalists”. …
A further prompt suggests a PhD researcher could investigate how “the definition of species, animals and kinds relate to ideas of race, gender and other variables of identity”.
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They should move that Bakery out of there. The university will not stop at anything to get revenge.
Just as Democrat municipalities are finding out, if you do not enforce basic law and order then the businesses pack up and leave, and your left with an empty wasteland.
Mississippi Shrinking – Taki’s Magazine – Taki’s Magazine (takimag.com)
A very revealing article, ToF. If you go onto Google Earth and take a ‘Street View’ trip through some of these cities, they are hardly vibrant. Maybe they were taken at odd times of day, but I get a picture of a bleak empty, dangerous heartland in the US, abandoned due to drugs and violence, but still with their cityscapes and public buildings in place so it gives it a surreal air. Feels soulless and tired. This is clearly a trend in the US. It’s as if they have decided to abandon their own country.
Equally disturbing is the fact that a so-called University is turning out students who do not understand the basics of law and order. Furthermore, and making matters worse, their interpretation of decent behaviour and what constitutes such is twisted around skin colour – good man black, even when he’s stealing and white man bad, even though the youth was acting decently and bravely in seeking to uphold proper societal standards ie knicking a thief.
Clearly this “University” needs a period of long hard reflection…
. ..before going back to the carp it has always spouted.
That works out at $13K per student, although the university has a $1bn endowment so they will barely notice it.
That’s probably going to happen: They’ll pay this easily using other people’s money and continue as if it never happened, counting on most of their victims being more easily cowed or at all incapable of taking the legal course of action.
According to the university they won’t even need to touch the endowment.
Trying to intimidate business owners into tolerating the actions of university-based shoplifting gangs is not my idea of progressive activism and certainly not something to be proud of.
This college should really use its loaf and figure out whether they want to be paying out millions or they’ll end up toast. It sounds like a crumby way to proceed. They should kiss and make up…say it with flours…