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From the I've-heard-enough-and-won't-take-it-anymore department, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39024648
The BBC reports that former Congressman Rush Holt, now part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is the spokesman for a movement "standing up for science".
His remarks reflect growing concern among researchers that science is disregarded by President Trump.
Scientists across the US plan to march in DC on 22 April.
[...] "To see young scientists, older scientists, the general public speaking up for the idea of science. We are going to work with our members and affiliated organisations to see that this march for science is a success."
Mr Holt made his comments at the AAAS annual meting in Boston as President Trump appointed a fierce critic of the Environmental Protection Agency as its head. Scott Pruitt has spent years fighting the role and reach of the EPA.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 21 2017, @09:29PM
Well, there's at least two parts, both where we mostly agree yet somehow find a way to disagree.
WRT
Science itself isn't political.
we are having this conversation in an article where the rabble rouser's strategy is explicitly to enforce or gaslight that "science" is in fact 100% unified as an anti-trump force. What he means is academia of course.
WRT liberal values, that's pretty well written although the drift has been so extreme that the left is no longer Liberal in your classical definition and after having power for so many decades has become the conservative force. Anti-white policy as a side effect of identity politics on the left results in the right not being anti-white which results in not being anti-white redefined as being racist while once everyone's racist then the actual 14/88 folks have free reign.
This is kind of a shake up period. My guess is in the '20s the left will be identified as the conservative baby boomer hippie ideal, and the right will settle out as a mixture of radicals. It'll be interesting to see how identity politics issue works out. Trump seems to be accumulating all the white people including the union members, and the left seems to be getting rid of the last of its white boomer and pre-boomer folks, it'll be interesting to see them cooperate (or not) and see how they can be worked against each other.
Aside from your stated liberal/conservative model and identity politics there are are patriarchal vs matriarchal attitudes and other stuff.
Future's gonna be interesting to watch.