George Mason Program ‘Mentoring for Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence’ Helps Fund Public Health Grants
“the taxpayer-funded university declined to give many specifics on how much money would be spent on each project nor what the proposals entailed”
There always seems to be funding to promote the progressive agenda. Have you noticed this?
The College Fix reports:
George Mason funds ‘anti-racism’ public health grants
Public health researchers who want to advance “anti-racism” and be “inclusive” can get money from George Mason University.
The “Mentoring for Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence” program provided grants to two College of Public Health doctoral students, Samantha Kanselaar and Julia Mandeville, for their projects.
However, the taxpayer-funded university declined to give many specifics on how much money would be spent on each project nor what the proposals entailed.
The university “has many research projects in development on a wide range of issues that seek to address society’s grand challenges, with funding from many sectors,” Michelle Thompson, the communications director for the public health college, told The Fix via email in early June.
“While Mason does not share student research proposals, information on the grant is available here,” Thompson wrote. “More details on Mason research can be found at research.gmu.edu.”
The provided links did not provide any information on funding. The application form is hidden behind a wall that can only be accessed by George Mason affiliates.
The Fix could not locate emails for the grant recipients.
Kanselaar’s (pictured, right) project is titled “Structural Racism and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Immigrant Communities of Color: A Conceptual Model,” according to the university news release. She will “create a model that explains ways in which structural racism manifests to drive intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities of color.”
“Immigrant women of color experience high levels of IPV and its consequences, and current explanations typically use gender or culture lenses,” the university’s news release stated. “Less attention has been given to the impact structural racism has on driving IPV.”
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So she has already decided that structural racism plays a part, and her task is to come up with a model. Hmmmmm. I guess the scientific method has changed a bit since I did it. We always started by asking a question. It just seems too easy when you start with an answer and then work backwards.
My understanding of the scientific method is hypothesis first, then testing. Otherwise it’s called data-mining. So it’s consistent with the scientific method for her to have this hypothesis, develop a model, and test it. All stages can be criticized of course.
The problem is that we have lost our social boundaries. In the old days, we would have said that it’s the sort of thing that society is not expected to solve. “Structural racism” is mainly people feeling as they feel, and they’re entitled to their opinions. Even “intimate partner violence” gets expanded to the point that the state is more intrusive in marriages than it is in relations between strangers, and that’s going too far also — generally, a marriage is nobody else’s business.
If we don’t wall off certain things as beyond the purview of “society” — people’s thoughts, and what they do in their marriages — then we’re all pawns of the ruling structure, even our thoughts and our marriages. And that is what is at risk here.
“a model that explains ways in which structural racism manifests to drive intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities of color.”
Who was it said that an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.