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That... seems like an extremely malevolent take on this?

She has a doctorate from MIT and isn't being glorified for turning on a computer, but for her algorithmic work squeezing information out of the gravitationally mangled paths of spurious photons reaching us after 80 million years.

That "learn to code" meme has also become a favorite of the alt-right to go after anyone they don't like.


Here are some groups using the "learn to code" meme:

https://girlswhocode.com/about-us/

http://www.blackgirlscode.com/

Would you say that they are "alt-right"?


We can translate this to physics quite easily. How many of the folks posting on Facebook to celebrate this person's achievement would be willing to do even one homework assignment for a freshman physics class at the local community college?




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