MIT Prof Claims She Spends ‘a Third’ of ‘Working Hours’ Fighting Trump ‘Terrorism’
“The Trump administration’s strategy conjoins specific instances of threats and violence with widely reported media representations in order to spread fear”
This is the third stage of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s also an admission by this prof that she wastes tons of time.
The College Fix reports:
MIT professor says she spends ‘a third’ of ‘working hours’ fighting Trump ‘terrorism’
When Professor Catherine D’Ignazio isn’t running the “Data + Feminism” lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing “reproductive justice hackathons” she is fighting Donald Trump’s “state terrorism.”
The urban studies professor, and “data feminism” scholar, recently explained “how U.S. universities can survive state terrorism” in an essay for Academe Blog.
“What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to ‘send a message’ —to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior,” Professor D’Ignazio (pictured) explains.
“The US government’s detentions of students such as [Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa] Öztürk constitute a burgeoning form of state terrorism, particularly when considered alongside other acts of political violence and coercion,” she wrote. “These include using taxpayer dollars for deporting undocumented workers—some while they were seeking food outside homeless shelters, dropping their kids off at daycare, or driving to their high school volleyball practice.”
“The Trump administration’s strategy conjoins specific instances of threats and violence with widely reported media representations in order to spread fear,” the professor wrote. “This is what distinguishes the current violence of the state as terrorist. It is not only a judicial project but also a public relations project and a strategic communications project.”
Even “left- and center-leaning” publications like the New York Times play a role in promoting fear, the professor said.
It’s no wonder then that one-third of her paid time goes to fighting “state terrorism.”
“This gives the appearance that state terrorism is working, and in certain ways that might be true,” she wrote. “I would estimate that about a third of my own working hours—hours that professors should be using to advance science and innovation or educate and mentor students—are now consumed with combating the impacts of state terrorism on my university campus: widespread fear, self-censorship, capitulation, and silence.”
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wow only a 1/3rd??
things must be improving in the usa
Sure, Jan.
“ The urban studies professor…”
That explains a lot.
Says about everything. Wonder why Universities need souch money to operate and tuition is out of control? One major reason is fake academics like this chick teaching fake classes
When I was at MIT (mid-sixties, last century) none of this crap would have been tolerated.
Useless Karen in useless field. MIT take note. She represents you and she is an embarrassment.
Sounds like she’s not giving the university the hours she’s contracted to give. Reduce her pay by 1/3. Then fire her.
The good professor has also taken the time to instruct university administrators in the “right” posture to take towards the administration. Most revealing. “This includes resisting political interference to adopt a particular definition of antisemitism, dissolve DEI programs, adopt scientifically incorrect definitions of gender, or rewrite history to teach a series of untruths about white male heroes.” I suspect that this professor is not alone and her opinion might even reflect that of a plurality if not majority of other professors. However, I also suspect that the various university administrators understand the “golden rule” – he who has the gold, rules.
BTW, what got the good professor’s goat regarding “untruths about white male heroes” was the National Park Services updating their explanatory notes on displays for the underground railroad. Some of the objectionable notes include the statements that apparently this non-historian finds offensive: “The Underground Railroad bridged the divides of race, religion, sectional differences, and nationality,” .
“(It) joined the American ideals of liberty and freedom expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to the extraordinary actions of ordinary men and women working in common purpose to free a people.” The good professor and her ideological allies object to having any reference to white Americans helping runaway black slaves. As Senator Moynihan said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Like most of such professors’ writing, all the words used are English, but they’re combined in ways that don’t seem to convey any meaning.
Just like many politicians.
Word Salad Kamala comes to mind….. 🤣
Reads a great deal like the majority of grant proposals for non STEM departments
“Professor D’Ignazio (pictured) explains.”
I looked at the picture below, and thought she looked surprisingly based for a chick from these stomping grounds. Then when I scrolled down, I discovered there WAS no photo, and what I was looking at was an ad for “Wife Left Speechless from Natural Solution to ED.”
“When Professor Catherine D’Ignazio isn’t running the “Data + Feminism” lab”
Lab? I wonder what types of feminists she stores in the stockroom?
D’agnazio’d with Trump Derangement Syndrome…..
So she thinks arresting criminals is “state sanctioned violence.” That’s a sign of a mental heath issue right there.
Well, it is.
People have to understand that “violence” is not a negative term.
Renounce violence? Then renounce ever defending yourself, just die, get raped, whatever.
Renounce aggression? Ah, now we can have a conversation.
What, pray tell, is “Data Feminism”? I didn’t realize raw data, in its various forms (continuous, interval, integral, etc.), could have beliefs. Silly old me believing what I was taught in graduate school that data was just data until the analysis of it told you something….or maybe she is just cray cray….
And, once again, some simpleton brings up that old “words have meanings” drivel. Hie thee to a nunnery, Bowman! 😉
Why is an angry AWFL on the board of an Indigenous Woman’s group?