Scientists are no stranger to protesting the atrocious nature of the Trump administration – from organise aresistance movementonline to actuallytrying to displaceanti - scientific legislator , they ’ve been there . Now it seems that they ’ve get together theTake A Kneeprotest that begin back in 2016 with American football game field general Colin Kaepernick .
As has beenwidely coveredin the news , Kaepernick first bug out to sit down , then kneeling , several games last year during a carrying into action of The Star - Spangled Banner . He did so to protest against the taxonomical racialism inherent in American society , particularly when it do to the discussion of black citizenry by jurisprudence enforcement .
Then , just this month , the President say at a rally in Alabama – to rapturous hand clapping – that he feels NFL players who kneel during the national anthem should be fired . In reply , plenty more NFL players ( and their passenger vehicle and managers ) across the country have begun kneeling in protest . It has since circulate tolawmakersat the US Capitol , and now it seems scientists have joined in too .
Although some kneeler are resist generally against the President – much to thechagrinof advocator of Kaepernick ’s original content – it appears batch of scientists are still keen to highlight systemic racialism , but this time in academe .
“ Why should # ScientistsTakeAKnee ? ” asksLeo Stein , a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech , on Twitter . “ It ’s a rough-cut trope to present science as objective and apart from the difficulty of high society … but scientist are masses . You ca n’t assort science from society . ”
“ We have systemic racism . White men ( eg me ) are hugely overrepresented , ” he explain . “ To be a expert scientist , I have to be honest about my privilege . ”
Theanne Griffith , a postdoctoral investigator at Columbia University , has take a knee to “ prompt those who draw a blank [ that ] science is plagued by racism , too . ” Fellow scientistIsabel Warnertakes a knee with two of her colleagues in support of Kaepernick . “ We affirm that # BlackLivesMatter , ” she explains .
From researchers in the Arctic Circle to assistant professors and students all across America , it seems like Kaepernick ’s action mechanism – and the President ’s bluster – have encouraged one thousand of scientist to take up this new form of protestation . As you could imagine , those of a more virulent disposition are not best proud of .
Who get laid you could fit so many inaccurate tropes into just one tweet ?
[ H / T : Quartz ]
