Post by Repat Van on Nov 19, 2024 20:51:38 GMT
"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'.
Arguing that geology began as a 'colonial practice', Professor Yusoff stated in her book 'Geologic Life' that the extraction of metals such as gold and iron had created hierarchies, pushed materialism, ravaged environments and was the route cause of climate change.
Claiming that 'geology continues to function within a white supremacist praxis', the academic referenced the theft of land, mining and other geological practices as having led to the creation of white supremacy and a resulting 'geotrauma'.
Professor Yusoff's new book focuses on geology between the 17th and 19th centuries and puts forward the notion that non-white people have a closer relationship to land than white people.
'Broadly, black, brown, and indigenous subjects… have an intimacy with the earth that is unknown to the structural position of whiteness,' she wrote.
Ms Yusoff is described as a professor of 'inhuman geography' on the official Queen Mary University website.”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091119/Geology-racist-linked-white-supremacy-claims-Queen-Mary-University-London-professor.html
These people exist to wind up Mids and do an excellent job at it!