I have described on multiple occasions Clark’s Law of Social Issue Absurdity, which states that any social movement has to keep going so the graft can be kept up. That requires the issue to become more and more ridiculous, and the request for acceptance becomes demands for approval and then celebration until the whole thing descends into absurdity.
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This is a fundamental law of the universe, as named above. The latest example of this fundamental law comes to us from the United Kingdom, where a professor at London’s Queen Mary University informs us now that rocks are racist.
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.
This is, of course, the purest horse squeeze. This professor has no business being anywhere near any young, impressionable skulls full of mush, although I suppose here in the States we can take some comfort in knowing that this lunatic is only meddling with young British youth, not Americans. And lunatic, it seems, is not too strong a word for “Professor” Yusoff’s ravings.
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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.
Before we get too wrapped up in pointing and laughing – and make no mistake, pointing and laughing is certainly warranted in this overweening piece of nitwittery – we shouldn’t forget that right here in the United States, we have our own crop of nitwits, ranting about racist roads and racist trees. One of them is even President Biden’s Transportation Secretary.
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When everything is racist, nothing is racist. ‘Nuff said.
As for “Professor” Yusoff”s book – and a disclaimer, I haven’t read it and likely won’t bother, my reading list tends to stay more on the sane side – I’m guessing it leans heavily on the “native wisdom, harmony with nature” angle of indigenous people. The same indigenous people, I would point out, had double-digit infant mortality, an absolutely shocking rate of death in childbirth, an average life expectancy in the thirties, and hunting practices that involved driving entire herds of game animals over cliffs.
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Every significant improvement in the human condition that has eliminated these problems has come from Western civilization. The advances in technology, agriculture, medicine, and everything that makes our modern life anything other than nasty, brutish, and short, have come from the same Western civilization that “Professor” Yusoff dismisses as racist.
To our British cousins, I can only say this: Why are you putting up with this jackwagon influencing your kids?
