Re: [dinosaur] Online Fundraiser Dino Nerds for Black Lives set for this weekend

[Mitchell Lamm <akhnaten1@aol.com>]

OK, thatâs enough. If you guys want to continue your cultural brainwashing, 
do it in a different forum. As it is, your lock-stepping with this event and 
the side youâve chosen has put your true colors on full display. 
Not that there was any doubt about where you academics stand. Or kneel.
Mitch Lamm 

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> On Jun 18, 2020, at 3:12 PM, David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> ïGesendet: Dienstag, 16. Juni 2020 um 17:36 Uhr
> Von: "Ruben Safir" <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
> 
>> a fundraiser for Jon Tennent and open science etc would be better,
> 
> Jon Tennant died in a motorbike accident something like two months ago.
> 
> ...and I'm not sure what open-science advocacy would even do with money. 
> Actual open-access journals need money, of course, but they seem to be making 
> enough...?
> 
>> especially if you really think Black Lives Matter. The failure to get
>> educational resources and have open content and science is the most
>> repressive arm of minority supression.
> 
> I'm not going to defend the fact that, in the US, schools are funded by 
> micro-local property taxes so that poor neighborhoods get unbelievably bad 
> schools... but... I don't think it quite compares to a police force that 
> consists of almost untrained people who are _so scared_ they just shoot 
> everyone who "looks dangerous" to their prejudices â and have military 
> equipment, and sometimes military elite training, to do just that, and that's 
> not even the whole extent of that problem.