Magic, Transgender Archaeology PhDs, and all the Woke Trimmings! By James Reed
More absurdity from the universities, perhaps not as dangerous as the vast promotion of globalist ideologies such as mass immigration and the attack upon White culture and Western civilisation, but still part of the general decay and decadence. Thus, there is a UK PhD being funded by tax payer money on "Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology." The idea here is that it is transphobic to identify bones as being either male or female, because it is allegedly not known how people in the past gender identified.
Despite the nonsense from modern society, all the evidence from past societies, less insane that our present one, as well as non-white societies such as even contemporary Africa, are gender binary. There are plenty of film clips of African tribal people asserting gender binary claims, which clashes with Western Left-wing ideology. So, if the white West leftists criticise such people, can they not be hit withthe big racist "death ray gun"?
"A Conservative MP in the UK has called for a thorough review of government higher education funding after it was revealed that taxpayer money is being spent on ridiculous university courses, including a PhD researcher who has chosen to explore "Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology."
The Telegraph reports that the student at the University of York is being given more than £18,000 a year by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to do detailed research and present papers, including one titled Bones Don't Care About Your Feelings: Challenging Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology in (Social) Media.
The student in question also gave a presentation that noted "What if I told you that when an archaeologist finds human remains, it is a fact that there [sic] only two choices for gender identification."
The 'research' was also partially funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a non-departmental government body that distributes funds for research, which claims that "research projects we support are made via a rigorous peer review process."
Maybe make it a bit more rigorous then?
Commenting on the finding, biologist Dr Emma Hilton, co-founder of Sex Matters, noted "Human remains cannot tell us anything about the unembodied 'gender identity' of a person."
Providing an example, Hilton urged that "A female Viking warrior buried with male-typical war possessions tells us only that some women successfully broke through early glass ceilings."
As we previously highlighted, there is a push among gender activists within the field of archaeology to have anthropologists to be prevented from identifying human remains as male or female because it is not known how. In other words, far-left activists are now insisting that it is 'transphobic' for archaeologists and anthropologists to identify bones as male or female, because they don't know if ancient people identified as a specific gender or not.
Pretty sure they had more pressing things to consider.
The same people have also insisted that archaeologists no longer categorise the race of remains as this "contributes to white supremacy."
Other equally stupid research projects have been uncovered, including one at Cambridge University, which will involve a PhD student investigating its collection of animals and plants to root out imperial connections, in an attempt to "decolonise the dodo".
The project falls under the university's efforts to address "legacies of enslavement and empire."
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