Re: [dinosaur] Online Fundraiser Dino Nerds for Black Lives set for this weekend

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Gesendet:ÂDienstag, 16. Juni 2020 um 17:36 Uhr
Von:Â"Ruben Safir" <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>

> a fundraiser for Jon Tennent and open science etc would be better,

Jon Tennant died in a motorbike accident something like two months ago.

...and I'm not sure what open-science advocacy would even do with money. Actual 
open-access journals need money, of course, but they seem to be making 
enough...?

> especially if you really think Black Lives Matter. The failure to get
> educational resources and have open content and science is the most
> repressive arm of minority supression.

I'm not going to defend the fact that, in the US, schools are funded by 
micro-local property taxes so that poor neighborhoods get unbelievably bad 
schools... but... I don't think it quite compares to a police force that 
consists of almost untrained people who are _so scared_ they just shoot 
everyone who "looks dangerous" to their prejudices â and have military 
equipment, and sometimes military elite training, to do just that, and that's 
not even the whole extent of that problem.