Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
A Conservative MP within the UK has referred to as for a radical assessment of presidency greater training funding after it was revealed that taxpayer cash is being spent on ridiculous college programs, together with a PhD researcher who has selected to discover “Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology.”
The Telegraph reports that the scholar on the College of York is being given greater than £18,000 a 12 months by the Arts and Humanities Analysis Council (AHRC) to do detailed analysis and current papers, together with one titled Bones Don’t Care About Your Emotions: Difficult Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology in (Social) Media.
🔴 Ridicule over college’s ‘trans archeology’ course https://t.co/GSKNBuEKKu
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 14, 2024
The scholar in query additionally gave a presentation that famous “What if I advised you that when an archaeologist finds human stays, it’s a proven fact that there [sic] solely two selections for gender identification.”
The ‘analysis’ was additionally partially funded by UK Analysis and Innovation (UKRI), a non-departmental authorities physique that distributes funds for analysis, which claims that “analysis tasks we help are made through a rigorous peer assessment course of.”
Possibly make it a bit extra rigorous then?
Commenting on the discovering, biologist Dr Emma Hilton, co-founder of Intercourse Issues, famous “Human stays can not inform us something in regards to the unembodied ‘gender identification’ of an individual.”
Offering an instance, Hilton urged that “A feminine Viking warrior buried with male-typical struggle possessions tells us solely that some girls efficiently broke by early glass ceilings.”
As we beforehand highlighted, there’s a push amongst gender activists inside the discipline of archaeology to have anthropologists to be prevented from figuring out human stays as male or feminine as a result of it isn’t recognized how ancients would have self-identified.
In different phrases, far-left activists are actually insisting that it’s ‘transphobic’ for archaeologists and anthropologists to determine bones as male or feminine, as a result of they don’t know if historical folks recognized as a particular gender or not.
Fairly positive that they had extra urgent issues to contemplate.
The identical folks have additionally insisted that archaeologists not categorise the race of stays as this “contributes to white supremacy.”
Do not give skeletons a gender or categorise race, woke warriors demand https://t.co/thUUnV6ue6
— Each day Mail On-line (@MailOnline) July 24, 2022
Different equally silly analysis tasks have been uncovered, together with one at Cambridge College, which is able to contain a PhD pupil investigating its collection of animals and plants to root out imperial connections, in an try and “decolonise the dodo”.
The venture falls beneath the college’s efforts to handle “legacies of enslavement and empire.”
College of Cambridge searching for college students to ‘decolonise dodos and tigers’https://t.co/Agh6joNXTU
— GB Information (@GBNEWS) April 2, 2024
One other course presently promoting for analysis positions lasting three years at full pay of £33,000 per 12 months, is titled “The Europe That Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000.”
An extra course on the College of Exeter presents a level in ‘Magic and Occult Science,’ with the course chief claiming “Decolonisation, the exploration of different epistemologies, feminism and anti-racism are on the core of this programme.”
Diploma in magic at College of Exeter https://t.co/eE0E4Lgk6S
— BBC Information (UK) (@BBCNews) October 3, 2023
This ridiculousness seems to be partially right down to lobbyist teams attempting to inject their ideological nonsense into education:
‘That is pure Marxist principle designed to interrupt down completely our whole societal construction.’ @Nigel_Farage reacts to universities being advised to ‘go woke’ and ‘decolonise’ programs from computing to classics by the levels watchdog.#FarageOnGBNews pic.twitter.com/JwhMO2XZPd
— GB Information (@GBNEWS) November 16, 2022
Conservative MP Nick Fletcher mentioned: “We have to name a rip-off a rip-off after we see it. That is taxpayers’ cash, at a time when households are struggling – and the tax burden is at an all-time excessive.”
SCAM COURSES – YOUR TAXES WASTED
I’ll name it out every time I see taxes being wasted. Your hard-earned Taxes needs to be decrease and spent correctly.
I’ve spoken earlier about how college students are being bought duff levels. It’s not solely a waste of taxes but it surely places them in debt too.… pic.twitter.com/m0U0iustE1
— Nick Fletcher MP (@NickFletcherMP) April 15, 2024
“We must always think about establishing a ‘Taxpayers’ Evaluate Course of’ to allow strange folks to assessment and problem UKRI and AHRC spending – just like the method out there for residents to assessment and problem native authority accounts,” Fletcher added.
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