Joanne Jacobs dissects "Hawaiian-style science" in yesterday's issue of The Jewish World Review. She links to Marc Miyaki of Amaravati, who is very indignant about the assumption that Hawaii is a backwards, agricultural culture. His rant on the "colour of science" leads naturally into a devastating critique of "Afrocentric science" and the link between PC ideas and bogus self-esteem props:
There are two reasons for tribalists to spend $2.5 million on 'Hawaiian science':First, it's a Feel Good about Your Ancestors Scheme™."Isn't it amazing that your forebears could do this!?""Yeah, whatever ... I wanna go home and download some more MP3s."
It's another attempt to raise self-esteem. But the idea of feeling good about yourself because of the achievements of some dead people (usually male) who looked vaguely like you is idiotic. Why should you leech off them for your own ego? Why not do something yourself and feel good about that? But nooo, that meaning thinking of yourself as an individual rather than as a member of The Tribe! Neo-Nazis who do nothing of value while constantly pointing at the works of the 'white race' as evidence of their 'supremacy' are the saddest examples of ego-leeches.
Second, it's PC. You know the drill. Haole science is impersonal and anti-environment. But Ye Olde NNNative Ways™ are spiritual (cf. 'Less Than' Venerable on "spiritual" matter) and in tune with the mana (divine force) of the 'aina (land). Sorry, just the sight of the word "rainforest" [in the proposed Hawaiian science curriculum] is a red (or should that be green?) flag for me.
This Colour-coding of science is, frankly, insane. Science knows no Colour and was never a European monopoly.
Right on, Marc.