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Oh My God.

Today’s our last class for the “Justice in STEM Education” course at @umasseduc and I couldn’t be prouder of the students. They’re sharing their final papers and I’m blown away by the questions they’re addressing & their commitment to justice. I’ll be sharing some of their slides

— Enrique Suárez 🇻🇪 (@SciEdHenry) December 5, 2019

I dare you to make objective engineering sense out of this malodorous steaming pile of leftist ᛒᚢᛚᛚᚲᚱᚨᛈ :

“Another student is concerned with how ableism undergirds all kinds of Learning Management Systems, pointing out how the design logics behind these learning platforms are inequitable”

“OMG! One of the other students just asked: “how could these platforms also integrate translanguaging in order to, for example, integrate indigenous languages?” “

“Using dis/crit the third student asks: what teaching and learning would be like for students with dis/abilities if learning environments would provide and value different ways of knowing, and what how do we support teachers? “Nothing *about* us *without* us!””

“A fourth student builds on the work by @furtak @bpenuel @ScienceEdDPS and Lorrie Shepard to ask what more just and equitable systems of student-centered assessments look like that disrupt the teacher-student power hierarchy”

“The fifth student is concerned with decolonizing a K-5 outdoor curriculum, understanding their positionality as a settler and partnering with local Native communities”

“The final student (who’s also a secondary science PST) asks us to reconsider the “humanizing” v “dehumanizing” binary through multiple critical lenses, and is designing an ecology unit that prefigure new forms of culture-nature phenomena and relations”

One can only hope that at least a few of the students cranking out this useless gibberish are simply feeding a few appropriate buzzwords into a gibberish generator and are laughing themselves fuzzy out of the sight of the “educator” who is taking their money whole providing them no aid in becoming actual STEM majors.

This being twitter, there is at least some valid snark:

Seeing these malleable young minds come into their victimhood is so beautiful ✨

— ₿randt (@CornbasePro) December 6, 2019

When’s the next struggle session I mean course?

— Nemesis Online ☢️ (@nemesis_online) December 6, 2019

I had to get half-way into the thread and comments to realize this is ostensibly not a parody account.

— Mike Patterson (@patterson087) December 7, 2019

Today's students are amazing. They are so good at figuring out what their teacher wants to hear. When I was a kid I just thought hard work and study was sufficient. I was a returning adult student before I figured out the value of ego stroking the gatekeepers.

— FluffyMcDeath (@FluffyMcDeath) December 6, 2019

Thank you Enrique for preparing these students for their future: shining my shoes. Or cleaning the Slurpee machine…..

— Austere Religous Kameleon_o (@kameleon_o) December 7, 2019

You have done these vulnerable youngsters a lifelong disservice. They now know less science, but more about how to whine in a socially accepted way.

Be ashamed.

— Epstein hat sich nie umgebracht (@TrumpWasHere) December 6, 2019

“Clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness” -Carl Sagan

— Yautja Vishaun (@youwinski) December 6, 2019

Looks like you are bringing "justice" to STEM the same way Hugo Chavez brought prosperity to Venezuela.

— Flame Angel (@FlameAngel8) December 6, 2019

And for the win:

Decolonize this, asshole:

6CO2 + 6H20 + (energy) → C6H12O6 + 6O2 (photosynthesis)

-b±√(b²-4ac))/(2a) (quadratic equation)

The entropy of a system approaches a constant value as its temperature approaches absolute zero. (3d law of thermodynamics)

— Sandra (@SandraShreve6) December 6, 2019

And from this minor gravity well’s Twitter feed comes this graphic representation of madness:

This guy’s Twitter feed is astonishing in it’s banal evilness, using randomized word salad to bastardize science education into a stew of useless feel-good decay and filth. This guy is to STEM education what boils and sores are to healthy skin.

I love the way the student is able to navigate the desire to know and the desire to respect and value the life of the Taro plant. Often times we don’t stop to think about the consequences of knowing coming to know; we should also think about when to know and why

Also, Django paris’s framework of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies foreground the dynamic aspect of culture and warn precisely against pedagogies rooted in stereotypes and essentializing communities

We need to create translanguaging spaces for students to use linguistics resources that we don’t share (e.g., Arabic, Tagalog). Equitable science learning environments must invite, value, and leverage their languages, and we must figure out how to get there

That’s why I look up to @emilynmachado and her work on (what I’m calling) semiotic solidarity: I may not understand what you’re saying, but I will support you in using that language in order to make this a brave learning environment for yourself and your ideas

Translanguaging spaces. Translanguaging spaces.

TRANSLANGUAGING ᚠᚢᚲᛜ SPACES.

Stalin and Orwell nod sagely.

Jersey City shooting suspects were lovers who lived in a van

So, these two lovely folks decided it was a perfectly cromulent exercise to go and shoot up a Jewish grocery store. They killed three, including a cop, before they caught some bullets themselves. Additionally, they’d apparently previously killed an Uber driver. And who were they? What made them decide to go kill them some Jews?

David Anderson was described by law enforcement sources on Wednesday as a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelites, and he introduced girlfriend and accomplice Francine Graham to their beliefs,

These are people who believe that black folk are the true Hebrews, and that all the other Jews are just evil white colonist cultural appropriators. If you think you’ve heard of the Black Hebrew Israelities before… congrats! You almost certainly have. You could have heard of them many places, but one standout is that these jackholes were the ones standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in January of this year. Their loud, insane, inane racist shriekings are what set off the Covington Blood Libel. Note that even at this late date, the New York Post article *still* lays some of the blame at the feet of the Covington kids while letting the aggressor who banged a drum in a little kids ear entirely off the hook and portrays him as a hero rather than a minor villain.

The Black Hebrew Israelites, who are not a part of mainstream Judaism, believe that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshippers of God, and black people are the true “chosen people” of the Bible, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists various branches of the movement among the country’s black nationalist hate groups, most of which it says are “strongly anti-white and anti-Semitic.”

You know you’re special when the SPLC decides that your anti-white rhetoric and beliefs might be a bit beyond the pale.

Once again it should prove interesting and entertaining to see how this terrorist action compares in the media to others with reversed color values.

Real Men will wield narwhal tusks:

Polish man attacking the London bridge terrorist with a narwhal tusk.

Somebody give this dude a suit of shining armor already.

The Polish don't mess around 🇵🇱

His name is Luckasz. Share this act of bravery!

History will not forget this man.pic.twitter.com/RFa0U6DSKW

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) November 30, 2019

When Usman Khan decided to help enrich the culture of London by using Knives Of Peace, a Polish chef named Łukasz pulled a tusk off the wall of “Fishmongers Hall” and decided to enstabulate Khn with it. Another Londoner hosed Khan down with a fire extinguisher.

Khan, as it turns out, was an interesting fellow. Here’s a photo of him (far left) and his fellow Bo-lu from 2012 when he was jailed for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange:

A few questions immediately spring to mind:

1: If he was convicted of an an attempted terrorist bombing less than a decade ago, what the frak was he doing out and about? Answer: there was a maximum sentence permitted under British law, and he was set free.

2: Why the frak was he still in Britain, rather than deported back to Caprona? Answer: he was apparently a British citizen, born and bred there. As English as the Queen, eh wot.

Might be a few lessons there.

US-born ‘ISIS bride’ Hoda Muthana isn’t an American citizen and can’t come back, judge rules

Turns out that her father, a Yemeni diplomat, had diplomatic immunity at the time she was born in the US. And “if you’re born here, you’re a USA citizen” does NOT apply to the children of foreign diplomats, for reasons that should seem both good and proper. As a result, when she left the US to provide aid and comfort to enemy cultists, burning her US passport in the process, she tossed away her chance to live in the US.

Have fun in the utopia you chose, darlin’.

U.S.-born ISIS bride says ‘everyone deserves a second chance’

An American-born woman who once urged jihadists in America to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood,” says she “regrets every single thing” and believes she should be given the option to return to the United States with her young son.

Nope. She’s a US citizen, but I’d argue that intentionally going abroad to provide aid and comfort and babies to the enemy, while advocating that acts of murder be carried out on the streets of the US, is prima facia evidence of “no longer a US citizen.”

Buh bye, beeyotch.