Posted on 11/17/2024 7:08:10 AM PST by Moltke
A geography professor at a leading British university has described the study of rocks and the natural world as racist and linked the academic field to 'white supremacy'.
Kathryn Yusoff, who lectures at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London, said that the geology as a subject was 'riven by systematic racism' and influenced heavily by colonialism.
The study of prehistoric life through fossils was also branded as an enabler for racism, with the professor referring to the field of palaeontology as 'pale-ontology'.
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And some people still wonder why Trump won?!
You won’t believe this one.
Stupidity knows no bounds. Looks like an ugly Steve Martin.
Yes, and as they’re Gen Z and entering the job market - they are well aware of DEI policies that lock them out of jobs because of their race.
That’s the look of a guy who’s just been told that his rectal syphilis is clearing up.
Well put!
So I will add Geology to my list of things that have been dubbed racist. Here is the list so far:
Calisthenics
Camping
Chicken and waffles
Classical music
“Cotton-picking” (figure of speech)
Dr. Seuss
Hiking
Mathematics
Having Mike as a first name
Milk
Organizing your pantry
Punctuality
Setting an agenda
Swimming
Watermelons
Weight control
God made the rocks and God is a white Dude, so he’s correct.
Gaydar at 11.
Down with Hutton and Lyell!
University of London Profile for Yusoff
Kamala Harris-like word salad, the Brit academic version:
"...The racialization of environments is intensifying in the context of climate change and proximity to the toxic ecologies. These interrelated processes of global environmental change and racial capitalism are being grouped under the universalizing concept of the Anthropocene. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None engages with the discourse of the Anthropocene but does so in a way that looks at how geology was a technology of colonialism that produced a racializing stratum which historically structures environments in the first instance. For example, looking through this lens we might see how climate change is materialized through a racialized praxis and how those materialities of race produce racialized climates of survival. Scientific work on the Anthropocene has been interested in locating the start of the Anthropocene (or the “Golden Spike”) to craft narratives of the planet's past to operationalize desired futures. Beginning with the same geologic origin stories, a different narrative could be told about these events and the violent affective life of colonialism. Colonialism instituted and normalized an extractive relation; it is a relation applied to both people and land through genocide and slavery. This praxis of material accumulation and desirous subjugation builds new geographies of time and subjectivity. Black and brown bodies were and are caught in the wake of this material and ontological geology of extraction."
Source: BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Yusoff’s “A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None”
Because science can be racist, sexist, misogynist, ageist, and so much worse. Or something....
I have a degree in geology. I never found a rock that is a white supremacist, racist, misogamist nor discriminatory.
Not even white rocks, brown rocks nor black rocks displayed any of these traits. Some rocks are black and brown or white, obvious interracial breeding of the rocks. The other rocks really did not care.
That lady is bat S—t crazy.
I think it’s a dude… Either way, what passes for “higher education” is really thin these days. It’s like they just put random “big, triggering” words together to form a few sentences that are so completely incoherent that what they say makes no sense whatsoever.
All studying is racist, because all knowledge is racist.
It's pretty clear that the goal of these people is to undermine the Enlightenment and usher in a grand new era of Postmodernism, in which facts are subservient to feelings.
Idiot. White idiot.
Britain has been a broodery of bad ideas since George III.
Looks like a trans white idiot. Trans people all have mental problems
This is why Trump won.
I think these people go to bed at night dreaming up ways to get themselves in the spotlight. Does “she” truly believe this or is she just an attention wh*re? I go with the latter.
Does “she” truly believe this or is she just an attention wh*re? I go with the latter.
inhuman epistemologies in race, gender, and subjectivity for more equitable environmental world-building?????
What does this gibberish even mean?
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