“Urban science, the harnessing of computational methods and data analysis to address urban planning challenges, is increasingly becoming normative amongst urban planning scholars and practitioners. Anti-racist planners and practitioners should understand urban science as a driver that can reinforce race-neutral ideology, ultimately sustaining whiteness.”

“Whiteness is a product of the dominance of white racial identity and fosters an environment that marginalizes non-white people. Whiteness highlights its pervasive nature as a social structure rather than merely an ethnic classification. Whiteness holds value, can be possessed, and exploits resources, leading to the marginalization and exclusion of non-white communities from various aspects of society, including land ownership, self-governance, social connections, job opportunities, housing, education, and financial resources.”

“Equity requires privileged groups, primarily white in the US context, to make “democratic sacrifices” to improve the lives of marginalized communities. Given that white advantage is consistently legitimized by authority, serving as a natural baseline, equity planners must identify and advocate which sacrifices are legitimate to address existing inequality.”

The Beaver did not make up a single word in the paragraphs above. Every sentence is the product of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), a clear example of its ideological pedagogy. Producing students who publish 10,000 word pseudo-scientific narratives undermining Martin Luther King’s dream of achieving a colorblind society. Which is the only way to justify a permanent role for technologic elites seeking careers as social justice advocacy planning practitioners.

The Beaver apologizes for being unable to find a way to make this funny rather than horrifying. But at least it provides fair warning to any employer considering hiring DUSP graduates.