I didn't believe this was real, so I went and checked.

It's worse than I thought. It's from the MIT Tech Review !!! And the MIT press is now completely filled with nonsense like this. Including that coming from the new chancellor who is a historian and "race expert".

> History and race
> Chancellor
> MIT

From her bio:

Through her leadership and service to the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, she helped to:

• Create a new theater building and a forthcoming music building, a state-of-the-art center for music research, innovation, and performance at MIT;
  
• Catalyze and champion the pioneering “MIT & Slavery” research class;
  
• Secure new support for graduate students, post-docs, and professorships; and
  
• Launch the Digital Humanities Lab, the Music Technology Lab, the non-partisan MIT Election Data & Science Lab, and the King Climate Action Initiative at J-PAL that focuses on the nexus of climate change and poverty.

What sort of spineless, cowardly, pathetic, submissive wimps are we that we handing over the very marvels of the enlightenment age to these self-interested, narcissistic, intellectual charlatans.