Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JaneHM – the University of New South Wales, the home university of Chris Turney, leader of the Ship of Fools expedition which got stuck in the Antarctic ice, has just forbidden lecturers from teaching anthropological historical facts which might offend Australia’s indigenous community.
University bans ‘inappropriate’ scientific data about the arrival of humans in Australia because it is offensive to Aboriginals who believe they have been here ‘forever’
- UNSW lecturers told to not teach date Indigenous people arrived in Australia
- The language guidelines were sent out staff and approved by a working group
- Told more appropriate is that Indigenous Australians here ‘since the Dreaming’
Science lecturers at the University of New South Wales have been told to stop telling students that Indigenous people’s arrived in Australia 40,000 years ago.
In a letter sent to staff the lecturers were told that it is ‘inappropriate’ to teach dates and they should say Aboriginals have been here ‘since the beginning of the Dreamings’ because that is what indigenous people believe.
A set of classroom guidelines were circulated in the science faculty this month which alerted the scientists to the existing language advice, according to The Weekend Australian.
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The guidelines say teaching a date for the arrival of Indigenous people ‘tends to lend support to migration theories and anthropological assumptions.’
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Maybe we’ve all been unfair to Chris Turney.
Perhaps Turney got into trouble, because he was never taught that Antarctic pack ice can be dangerous to ships, because learning there is lots of floating ice around Antarctica would upset climate activists, who are utterly convinced it has all melted away.
Is it okay to lecture about the transition point of political correctness and agenda science as mainstream commandments in the academy and in policy?
Aren’t these the same people who get their knickers in a wad over the teaching of Creationism?
The modern flight from science and reason.
Universities now mandate lying to protect ignorance.
It will never be enough.
Every generation will need descend further into intolerance to demonstrate their special piety.
The end will be complete stupidity; the destruction of every hard-won advance.
“In a letter sent to lecturers…”
Please identify the person or persons who sent this letter to lecturers. Does anyone have a copy of such a letter, to show the world? Does the letter have the school’s letterhead on it? Did adults sign their names to such a document? Do the administrative leaders of the school share the point of view of the writer or writers?
From what authority can a college professor be instructed to suppress historical knowledge in a field of study?
+100
Welcome to the world of political correctness,30 years ago we used to mock where PC was heading.
Totally predictable and boring.
Tiny minds inhabit tiny restricted worlds..Like Academia.
On the brightside,as in you could not make this up,under todays Human Rights Inquisitions you cannot verbally warn a Social Justice Warrior of the predictable consequences of their actions.
As they boldly march toward the cliff edge,you must remain silent.
For saving their lives is of less social consequence than “making them feel stupid”.
Forget worksite safety,you must save yourself from the Tribunals before all else, your livelyhood and family are depending on you.
Now only the emotionally under developed can believe that anyone outside of themselves,can MAKE them FEEL anything.
But emoting is the modern discourse,soon to be replaced by”Point and Grunt”.
I have been at WUWT since the Dreaming. To say that I came here 9 or so years ago would be offensive to me.
No, Mr. Kernodler, you have only been here for a month or so. Robert Kernodle, however, has been here since the Big Bang.
Is this a class on (Australian Aboriginal) Religion?
~Irony intended
Intellectual advancements are made largely by diversion from prevailing orthodoxies, therefore those who are so deeply invested in controlling perspectives, thus limiting them, are not interested in advancements or truth.
“Progressives” ( I put the word in quotes since I see little progress in their ideas) do not recognize truth but narratives. Contradicting themselves, they do believe in true narratives however. Its depressing to see civilization self destruct.
Every group tries to legitimize their people’s history by dressing it up in play clothes. Textbooks are filled with this act. The winners degrade the losers. Then the losers dress up their own history in play clothes. Finally someone comes along to try to weed out loserness, victimhood, and grandiosity from the historical record in order to get some kind of understanding about the realities of any group of people considered to be originally aboriginal but no longer the majority. Winners become subject to the same scrutiny but the search is hampered by the humanistic belief in the underdog. Taken all together, histories of anything are rife with bias, which is why social “research” must be swallowed with a fifth of anything that is 100 proof.
It’s good to be King of course, but better to be cynically skeptical.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eg1ucnv1Dqk
The University of New South Wales is a leading Research University in Australia. Among its notable alumni is a certain Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia.
“The guidelines say teaching a date for the arrival of Indigenous people ‘tends to lend support to migration theories and anthropological assumptions.’ ”
And not teaching it doesn’t?
And so say all those people who blow up at the word “d enier”
and to quote Rabett at them
“Another bunch who wants to steal the suffering of the Holocaust victims for themselves. “
Riiight. I’ll bet you can’t even define what we supposedly deny.
Ideology trumps facts. This is a very dangerous road.
Chris Turner won’t censor international science community, will he –
https://www.google.com/search?q=dna+aboriginal+African+origin&oq=dna+aboriginal+african+origin+&aqs=chrome.
– against aborigins that are interested in their ancestry + nowadays spreading over the globe, and happy to partake in studies. As any other ‘modern man’.