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Ladies & gentlemen, we present to you the Missing Link! Gaze in awe upon his fossilized prejudices, unchanged since the Middle Pleistocene!
Thomas Yazbeck
From: dinosaur-l-request@mymaillists.usc.edu <dinosaur-l-request@mymaillists.usc.edu> on behalf of Mitchell Lamm <akhnaten1@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 4:42 PM To: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> Cc: dinosaur-l@usc.edu <dinosaur-l@usc.edu> Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Online Fundraiser Dino Nerds for Black Lives set for this weekend OK, thatâs enough. If you guys want to continue your cultural brainwashing, do it in a different forum. As it is, your lock-stepping with this event and the side youâve chosen has put your true colors on full display.
Not that there was any doubt about where you academics stand. Or kneel. Mitch Lamm Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 18, 2020, at 3:12 PM, David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote: > > ïGesendet: Dienstag, 16. Juni 2020 um 17:36 Uhr > Von: "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. |