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Deutsche Physik was a movement in Germany that condemned Relativity and Quantum theories as "Jewish". It started around WW1 and briefly flourished under Nazis.

Today, we have a similar movement in the US: in Rigor/Us: Building Boundaries and Disciplining Diversity with Standards of Merit Donna Riley writes:
Rigor is the aspirational quality academics apply to disciplinary standards of quality ...
Rigor accomplishes dirty deeds, however, serving three primary ends across engineering, engineering education, and engineering education research: disciplining, demarcating boundaries, and demonstrating white male heterosexual privilege.
Understanding how rigor reproduces inequality, we cannot reinvent it but rather must relinquish it, looking to alternative conceptualizations for evaluating knowledge, welcoming diverse ways of knowing, doing, and being, and moving from compliance to engagement, from rigor to vigor.