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Professor regrets calling white college males 'a problem population'

What have white males even done to deserve this privilege!!!! This is an abomination!!!!!!! You didnt build that!!!


Oh wait, white males created everything that matters in the entire modern world.
 
What have white males even done to deserve this privilege!!!! This is an abomination!!!!!!! You didnt build that!!!


Oh wait, white males created everything that matters in the entire modern world.

Dude!!!!!!!
 
Lol what?

Name something that matters.

It is more likely or not that a while male invented, created, or produced that. In fact stand up...turn around...and sit back down. I would bet that everything you just saw exists because of a white male.
 
Name something that matters.

It is more likely or not that a while male invented, created, or produced that. In fact stand up...turn around...and sit back down. I would bet that everything you just saw exists because of a white male.

Algebra. Gunpowder. Two off the top of my head.
 
Hopefully she's learned her lesson and will express future sentiments using a platform that can make use of the proper complexity and nuance. Like Reddit.
I am afraid that the only lesson she will learn is that racist proclamations like the ones she made can only be gotten away with in a private setting of like minded individuals. Public shaming and disapproval from the university got her to issue a hollow "apology" and it may persuade her to keep her public comments in check from now on but it won't change who she really is. Core values are deeply rooted.

She has no business in a classroom, IMO.
 
Name something that matters.

It is more likely or not that a while male invented, created, or produced that. In fact stand up...turn around...and sit back down. I would bet that everything you just saw exists because of a white male.

Algebra. Gunpowder. Two off the top of my head.
Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined[3]), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. During World War I, she established the first military field radiological centres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Although better known for her Silver Screen exploits, Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) also became a pioneer in the field of wireless communications following her emigration to the United States. The international beauty icon, along with co-inventor George Anthiel, developed a "Secret Communications System" to help combat the Nazis in World War II. By manipulating radio frequencies at irregular intervals between transmission and reception, the invention formed an unbreakable code to prevent classified messages from being intercepted by enemy personnel.

Famous Women Inventors
Mary Anderson
Inventor of Windshield Wipers
Mary Anderson

Anyone who's ever driven in a rain or snow storm can attest to the dire importance of windshield wipers. What a lot of people don't know is that windshield wipers were invented by a woman. Inventor Mary Anderson received a patent for her car-window cleaning device in 1903.

Anderson's invention came about during a trip to New York City when the Alabama-born inventor noticed that streetcar drivers had to open the windows of their cars when it rained in order to see. As a solution, Anderson invented a swinging arm device with a rubber blade that was operated by the driver from within the vehicle using a lever.

Many people were initially leery of Anderson's windshield wiper invention, thinking it would distract drivers, but by 1916 windshield wipers were standard on most vehicles. It was also a woman inventor who first patented the automatic windshield wiper in 1917

Mary Anderson: Inventor of Windshield Wipers

Barbara Askins
Inventor of a New Film Developing Method
Barbara Askins

Established by the IPO Education Foundation, the National Inventor of the Year Award was created in 1974 to increase public awareness of the importance of technology to U.S. industry and the national economy. But it wasn't until five years later that an individual female inventor would take home the prize. That woman: NASA chemist Barbara Askins.

Though she began her career as a teacher, inventor Barbara Askins returned to school after having two children and received both bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry. After completing her education, Askins went to work for NASA at the famed Marshall Space Flight Center, where she was charged with the task of inventing a way to improve astronomical and geological photos taken from space (which were often fuzzy and lacked definition). The solution she developed would have a greater impact than anyone could have imagined.

Barbara Askins: Inventor of a New Film Developing Method

Et cetera, et cetera. There was a time that debunking the "only white males invented anything" argument would have provided a sense of triumph, but who doesn't know how to put "famous female inventors" into a search engine?
 
Name something that matters.

It is more likely or not that a while male invented, created, or produced that. In fact stand up...turn around...and sit back down. I would bet that everything you just saw exists because of a white male.

Here: a black dude gave us synthesized progesterone and testosterone, and did the ground work for cortisone and birth control pills. So next time you have an eczema outbreak, or get covered in poison ivy or want to have sex with your girlfriend without a condom, be sure to thank a black dude. I know I will.

Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.[1] He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian
 
Women Scientists You Need To Know | IFLScience

One example from the link:

Though Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin completed her studies at Cambridge in the 1920s, degrees were not given to women. She later traveled to America where she received her Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe University. Her thesis was hailed as “undoubtedly the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
She became the first person to determine that stars are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, though she was pressured into retraction by a colleague who then arrived at the same conclusion a few years later. Her life was spent in academia at Harvard, where she continued to advocate for science and became a role model for women wanting to enter astrophysics.
 
Who do you think invented algebra?

Why, Al-Khwarizmi of course. And I knew this because, like the other inventors I just posted, I put the question in a google search.
 
Algebra dates back to the Babylonians.

Pretty sure I know where that's going. He's probably going to claim that as the Caucasian migratory movement from Africa included Middle Easterners as well as Europeans, the inventor of algebra is therefore a white male. Which is fine if you want to be super technical about it, though of course now you have to include Indians as white, which I somehow doubt is entirely what WSUwarrior had in mind when he thought "white."
 
Why, Al-Khwarizmi of course. And I knew this because, like the other inventors I just posted, I put the question in a google search.

I guess that was silly of me. Where would we be in this world without windshield wipers and acne pills!

:lamo



Like I said everything that matters was made possible by white men.
 
Oh yeah, can't believe I didn't think of this first: Fire, mother****er!!!

Fire wasnt invented. Whats next, are you going to claim water was invented? How about trees? Who invented color? Rocks....who invented rocks?
 
Pretty sure I know where that's going. He's probably going to claim that as the Caucasian migratory movement from Africa included Middle Easterners as well as Europeans, the inventor of algebra is therefore a white male. Which is fine if you want to be super technical about it, though of course now you have to include Indians as white, which I somehow doubt is entirely what WSUwarrior had in mind when he thought "white."
Just. Wow.

Let it be known all you "Middle Easterners" that Cardinal will let you call yourselves white "if you want to be super technical about it."
 
Like I said everything that matters was made possible by white men.

Without math, hardly any of "what matters" would be possible, and white men did not invent math. Period, discussion over.
 
Just. Wow.

Let it be known all you "Middle Easterners" that Cardinal will let you call yourselves white "if you want to be super technical about it."

Do you consider Indians white?
 
Without math, hardly any of "what matters" would be possible, and white men did not invent math. Period, discussion over.

WSUwarrior is content with sticking his head out of a car window when he's driving in the rain, so I wouldn't overly concern yourself with what he thinks really matters.
 
Fire wasnt invented. Whats next, are you going to claim water was invented? How about trees? Who invented color? Rocks....who invented rocks?

By that reasoning nobody gets any credit for discovering any of the laws of physics, scientific theorems or elements because they were already there. Way to go, Idaho.

I guess that was silly of me. Where would we be in this world without windshield wipers

Driving with your head outside your car window like a tool.

and acne pills!

Without his research you're crap out of luck if you get an eczema outbreak or walk through poison ivy. Sex with your girlfriend becomes significantly less awesome.
 
By that reasoning nobody gets any credit for discovering any of the laws of physics, scientific theorems or elements because they were already there. Way to go, Idaho.



Driving with your head outside your car window like a tool.



Without his research you're crap out of luck if you get an eczema outbreak or walk through poison ivy. Sex with your girlfriend becomes significantly less awesome.

Who invented gravity?

Liberal radicals love relativism....so why cant you even play by your own rules? Windshield wipers to the light bulb? Vag pills to the telephone? Any other of the crap you came up with to trains, planes, and automobiles?


A white guy invents the car...but you bow to your knees at the freaking windshield wiper. :lamo Computers, the internet, trains, airplanes, cars...vs....windshield wipers. :lamo
 
Who invented gravity?

Liberal radicals love relativism....so why cant you even play by your own rules? Windshield wipers to the light bulb? Vag pills to the telephone? Any other of the crap you came up with to trains, planes, and automobiles?


A white guy invents the car...but you bow to your knees at the freaking windshield wiper. :lamo Computers, the internet, trains, airplanes, cars...vs....windshield wipers. :lamo

So go out and remove the windshield wipers from your car.
 
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