The once well-regarded ‘Scientific American’ Magazine raised eyebrows recently when it accused the fictional ‘Jedi’ characters of being ‘white saviors’ who are ‘problematic’ and practice ‘toxic masculinity.’
As The Daily Wire reports:
Scientific American, founded in 1845, has published such brilliant minds as Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, and explored subjects as diverse as perpetual motion and solar neutrinos.
These days, however, the magazine is concerning itself with somewhat different topics — like how “problematic” the fictional space warriors known as Jedi are.
In a story published Thursday, titled “Why the Term ‘JEDI’ Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion,” a group of five authors argue, “The Jedi are inappropriate mascots for social justice.”
They say the scientific world should jettison the Jedi, including naming anything after them or displaying any Star Wars memorabilia in common work spaces, because the space knights are “emblems for a host of dangerously reactionary values and assumptions.”
Has Scientific American finally lost all of it credibility? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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Samuel L. Jackson is going to mighty pissed at. Wing called a white savior!
Correction! At being called a white savior.
The DNC needs to start using the Empire’s evil theme music for all of its media broadcasts.