In another embarrassment to my homeland, a British professor of "inhuman geography" is making some pretty wild connections between white supremacy and - wait for it - geology and paleontology.
Those darn racist dinosaurs!
Kathryn Yusoff, a professor at Queen Mary University of London, has published a book called "Geologic Life," and let me tell you, it's a real page-turner if you enjoy struggling through random words jumbled together like a Joe Biden press conference transcript.
Her book, published by Duke University Press, focuses on "historical, geophilosophical, and black feminist methods to speak to issues of environmental change."
(Of course, Kathryn Yusoff looks very, very white.)
Yusoff argues that "forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment" have perpetuated "anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices."
In her introduction, she claims that her book aims to "understand geology (in its broadest sense) as a tool of raciality that has historically shaped the grounds of struggle and continues to shape material relations of racism into the future."
She also makes a joke that would only make Stephen Colbert chuckle, saying that "pale-ontology" has contributed to racism by naming and categorizing people as geologic subjects through the lens of the "inhuman."
Ha!
She also accuses scientists of creating "geotrauma" by erasing the geologies that belong to other "imaginations of earth." She writes about "missing earths" - Indigenous earths, Black earths, Brown earths - that have been overshadowed by a "colonial earth" created through "white geology," suggesting that even rocks have been roped into white supremacist schemes.
To tell a story of rocks is to account for a eugenic materialism in which white supremacy made surfaces built on racialized undergrounds across multiple — political, geophysical, subjective — states.
Woke nonsense in academia has finally hit rock bottom.
I must remind her to be patient with geologists, though. They all have their faults.
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