There are only individual minds, but many are subjected to public school that trains them not to question authority. Then CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Facebook, and Google complete their training to moronic serfdom.

Although it would be amazing to see a car run on black magic.

Time to crank in the anntennae a bit and ramp up the squelch. A lot of racism, femenism, ect-ism is in the eyes of the beholder.

She could head the Eastern female black magic science department at UC Berkeley, CA.

I like the wall idea. It makes a safe space, for the rest of us.

Right! Just ask Dr. Mengela...

There must be a reason why Elon Musk didh't build SpaceX ans Tesla in South Africa.

i wonder if Dark Matter would be acceptable?

I'm in California. Please don't send us anymore ignorami, we got enough already. Oh alright you could send them to UC Berkely just not to Stanford or Cal Tech.and build a wall around it.

Right! If Americans had thrown out all the scientific discoveries of say, the National Socialist German workers party, then Americans would never have landed on the moon as soon as they did.
Science is science. Not white science, not male science, not German science. Just science.

What staggers me about South Africa's trajectory is the example that this kind of thinking next door in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) that led to what was once the continent's breadbasket becoming its basket case is so incredibly obvious. Even the leaders of Zimbabwe have now recognized the foolishness and irrationality of the Mugabe regime, and are now begging the white farmers they drove out to return (which may be difficult, since Namibia and others welcomed the highly productive white farmers with open arms and are now benefiting).

To see Mandela's hard won end to apartheid come to such a discouraging end is sad, but not unexpected. The grievances built up from decades of subjection have boiled over into an explosion of racism bordering on a mental disorder. It's one thing to demand some form of balance and fairness, including a correction in the direction of race based favoritism, but to insist on throwing out everything that could possibly be connected to white history is insane.

I would like to insist that any American aid going to South Africa be suspended until this rush to insanity is over. People planning business ventures in that country should think very carefully about the likelihood of a rush to nationalization of any successful enterprise. That pattern of theft, abuse, and destruction of business ventures is a predictable pattern in these circumstances.

Gack! And this is a doctoral? Well, I hereby officially reject "poststructuralism". And what would prestructuralism look like?

Now you know why africa never joined the civilized world...it's amazing, the Africans in Africa remain stupid and starving but take an African Out of africa and they thrive and are no different that anyone else.

But for pete sake...don't blame the western world, (and no, the western world is not all white), for being the first humans to achieve the conscious mind and advance the well being of all of human kind.

This may have happened in Africa, but it happens here too! Here is a Doctoral dissertation "Are STEM Syllabi Gendered? A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis" from the University of North Dakota which includes:

Poststructuralism "'rejects objectivity and the notions of an absolute truth and single reality,” and “knowledge is complicated, contradictory, and contingent to a certain social context and historical context”

I can easily imagine her leading a similar discussion.

https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcon...

“Micro aggression”, requiring an apology...

This reminds me. Just the other day in the office a lady who sits by me (have worked together for years) complained to me about some other male coworker/manager who spoke mean to her in the past. I knew nothing about it. Never noticed it. Expressed that it was unfortunate. She said, "Oh you heard it. I documented it. You didn't say anything. But, it's ok because I forgive you." I wish I had a photo of my face when she said that. It'd probably have a pretty funny look on it. So...now I'm supposed to apologize for things I know nothing about.

What in the hell is happening to the American mind? Anybody?...

Interesting that there were also some white people in the room. Too bad these folks are conflating the hated colonial system which deprived them of their independence and original culture with the technology and knowledge (science, math, medicine) that those more advanced foreigners happened to develop and spread around the globe. Those who don't understand something tend to reject it. If it is not homegrown, like belief in black magic, ethnic music, climbing trees, it triggers aversion.

It looks like we are still centuries away from cross-fertilization of information and social organization. Cultures and belief systems, just like bodies, have immune systems, rejection reactions to outsider impact. No one likes to feel inferior, so better toss out anything that's new or hard to learn rather than be seen as substandard.

From my perch as a Martian anthropologist observing the human species, I can see where science-reality-objective truth are a threat to all the populations still steeped in religious fantasies. And the factionalizing of the species into separate cultural pockets also breeds predatory tendencies that justify mutual hostilities. What a perverse way to develop scientific knowledge--through constructing weapons of war.

Perhaps what is needed is a Dr. Seuss approach to make science and higher learning palatable by introducing it at a child's level of understanding. Our most advanced scholars, just like the front edge of computer technology, unfortunately advance beyond the range of the general population and forget how to discourse on a mutual level.

We need science story tellers and ambassadors of education at the simplest levels to send to that classroom in South Africa to make it interesting and fun for those folks to learn. Maybe even couch it in terms of magic. After all, as Arthur C. Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." We can't afford to wait centuries more for cultural evolution of the "developing" (stubbornly backward) countries to catch up. We need to talk to them at their level of comprehension. Not all of them are as advanced as Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The trick is how to sell them on opening their minds a smidgen without losing their pride in their own heritage. How to apply how we teach children to old cultures without having them take offense. How to bring them to understand that the very things that make their lives possible and comfortable--food, transport, medicine, electricity--are part of the values they can gain from cross-cultural symbiosis, techniques that can make them self-sufficient and independent, not having to demand and depend on charity and subsidies.

The planet does change, and its occupants need to keep adapting, inventing and learning new ways to cope. Pooling all our talents through peaceful collaboration will benefit all without one group feeling stripped of its historical identity and becoming absorbed by the larger world that would again be seen as a conqueror.

The smallest minority is the individual. How can we get that concept into tribal thinking?

(A response in kind) I don't understand why removing one's "colon" will help this self sanctification, but they should go for it, if it will make them happy.

Maybe it is because they had dumb teachers who didn't excite into learning science. It's a shame they say stupid things and then publish the video on You Tube. Didn't they know that you're using science when using You Tube! It could be whats happening on US college campus's?

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why this is so stupid.

This is a quite a summation of faking reality.

May (insert diety here) help us all.

To watch people like this makes me feel very alone.

The video made me gag, it's so disheartening that there is so much total ignorance in this world. If the ignorant would only shut up and keep it to themselves. Today we see it in everything, and I believe politics has brought it on even more. Even Obama has helped perpetuate so many of these false ideas and false feelings and attitudes in people and made those that disagree the bad guys.

I'd like to be able to take away the technologies these people don't believe in, and send them all to California. Other states that have overcrowding in their prisons should release prisoners and ban them to California. If we concentrate all the crime and ignorance in California where they say they want it, we could maybe build a wall around it to contain it.

Simply incredible. I would have walked out rather than apologize. There are no "rules" which suspend my ability to object to another person's abject stupidity.

We're getting a clue here as to how the Dark Ages actually came about.

To see black magic lightning bolts, first say, "Ungawa bwana." Why?
Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan used to say that.
Oops, all Tarzan actors are white save for this 'un and he ain't African~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baNqK...
That means to say, "Ungawa bwana" is snowflake science racist and
any white speaker of "ungawa bwana" may be struck by the black magic lightning he/she/trans creates.
Never mind.