Feds Paid $709,000 To Academic Who Studies How Glaciers Are Sexist

(Hat tip: KimR) - Academics at the University of Oregon have determined that glaciers and the science that studies them are deeply sexist. The paper's abstract reads, “Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.” Read more at the Daily Caller Read More......

Sexism and Racism Are Leftism

Discrimination by sex and by race are ancient innate pathologies and transcend particular cultures. But the American idea of sexism and racism in the 21st century — unfailing, endemic, and institutional discrimination by a majority-white-male-privileged culture against both women and so-called non-white minorities — has largely become a leftist construct.
  --We can see how these two relativist -isms work in a variety of ways. One, the frequent charge of racism and sexism is predicated not so much on one’s gender and race as on one’s gender, race, and politics.

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