{"id":66509,"date":"2021-04-05T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66509"},"modified":"2021-04-04T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:37:13","slug":"66509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66509","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This moron level, word salad BS is what passes for &#8216;higher education&#8217; today<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=17083\">University researcher: \u2018Intelligence is a White man\u2019s mythology.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Cincinnati graduate assistant wrote that \u201cintelligence is a White man\u2019s mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop calling your female colleagues \u2018smart,\u2019 or \u2018clever,\u2019 or \u2018brilliant,\u2019\u201d wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsci.uc.edu\/departments\/philosophy\/fac-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mel Andrews<\/a>, who studies cognition and evolution. \u201cIt\u2019s sexist and infantilising\u2026 it shouldn\u2019t be surprising to you in 2021 that women are capable of thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1364383079968739333&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2Farticle%3Fid%3D17083&amp;siteScreenName=CampusReform&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1364383079968739333\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re doing the same thing when you describe your Black and Latino students as \u2018very bright,\u2019\u201d added Andrews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntelligence is a White man\u2019s mythology. A phantasmal concept. A non-referring term. Syncategorematic,\u201d Andrews wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Indicating that the post was entirely serious, it was followed by an excerpt from a chapter Andrews wrote for a book entitled\u00a0<em>Handbook of Parenting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews cited works claiming that \u201cmore than a century of wanton reductionism and definitional vagueness in the study of intelligence and human potential has perpetuated a stratified social order and obscured the true dynamic complexity and diversity of human cognitive development.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1364395418105356288&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2Farticle%3Fid%3D17083&amp;siteScreenName=CampusReform&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1364395418105356288\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Andrews\u2019 most recent research paper received several thousand downloads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was addressing a phenomenon that I have noticed to be common in academic philosophy wherein individuals emphasize the intelligence of minority scholars and students over the quality of the work they produce,&#8221; Andrews explained to\u00a0<em>Campus Reform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the same phenomenon that occurs when a white instructor says to a Black student, in a surprised tone, &#8216;oh, you\u2019re so articulate!&#8217; It implies an expectation that Black students will be ineloquent. It was not\u2014as is contextually obvious from what I had initially posted\u2014a condemnation of intelligence ascriptions simpliciter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Handbook is a text written for scholars in the field of developmental psychology, it would not be used in undergraduate or even graduate coursework,&#8221; Andrews clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews also asked to be referred to as a &#8220;Marxist and an anarcho-syndicalist&#8221; with &#8220;they\/them\/theirs&#8221; pronouns, adding, &#8220;Your readers should love that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This moron level, word salad BS is what passes for &#8216;higher education&#8217; today University researcher: \u2018Intelligence is a White man\u2019s mythology.\u2019 A University of Cincinnati graduate assistant wrote that \u201cintelligence is a White man\u2019s mythology.\u201d \u201cStop calling your female colleagues \u2018smart,\u2019 or \u2018clever,\u2019 or \u2018brilliant,\u2019\u201d wrote\u00a0Mel Andrews, who studies cognition and evolution. \u201cIt\u2019s sexist and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-education-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66510,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66509\/revisions\/66510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}