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We are entering a triumphant new phase of the era of #MAGA, and seeing signs that the Left’s stranglehold on the culture is already slipping and wokeness is already in retreat. But the serious work of rooting out this toxic ideology from its most deeply entrenched strongholds – our so-called institutions of higher learning – has only just begun, and there is a daunting amount of worthless trash to be thrown out.
Having long been captured by postmodern Critical Theorists – whose mission is not to open the minds of students to the extraordinary legacy of humanity’s best and brightest, but to “deconstruct” and destroy it – humanities departments (of which I was once a proud graduate) have devolved into hubs of anti-civilizational sabotage. Identity politics and gender theory have infected every discipline from philosophy and classics to English lit and art history, re-orienting them all away from the liberating pursuit of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful to the enforced establishment of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
But the hard sciences have not been immune to the intellectual corruption of wokeness, which decries reason and the scientific method as “white colonialist” constructs that need to be replaced by “other ways of knowing.” The field of mathematics, for example, has been under assault for years by agents of subversion who aggressively promote the woke argument that two plus two can equal five. Their aim here is not to explore an interesting new theory but to undermine the solid footing of rationality itself, to destroy the underpinnings of certainty and truth in order to collapse our civilization and build a new, non-Western utopia on its ruins. For if 2 + 2 does not equal 4, then as Pontius Pilate once wondered, what is truth?
That brings us to Kathryn Yusoff, a “professor of inhuman geography” at Queen Mary University of London. On her university page she describes her work as employing “historical, geophilosophical and black feminist methods to speak to issues of environmental change, empires of geologic practices and the politics of planetary states.” Right off the bat, this intersectional jumble of disciplines and the pompous jargon (“geophilosophical,” “empires of geologic practices”) are a dead giveaway that Prof. Yusoff’s work has nothing to do with teaching geography classes and everything to do with serving as a committed foot soldier in the cultural Marxist assault on the West.
“My teaching builds on my ongoing pedagogical commitment of decolonizing geography, through a focus on the examination of unequal environments,” she admits before disgorging the following neo-Marxist blather about her teaching approach: “Modules engage how pedagogic encounter is racial, social-economic and gendered in relation to normative understandings of ability and disability.” Students, enroll at your own risk.
The UK Telegraph reports that Yusoff’s recent book, Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race, argues that geology itself began as a “colonial practice” that created hierarchies, promoted materialism, destroyed environments, and led to climate change.
And you thought geology was just a value-neutral science. Nope, and neither is paleontology, the study of prehistoric life through fossils, which Yusoff has labeled – I hope you’re sitting down for this – “pale-ontology.” This would be funny if her position of influence weren’t taken so seriously.
Yusoff believes the theft of land, mining, and other geological consequences of colonialism have led “toward the white supremacy of the planet” and resulted in “geotrauma.” Yes, geotrauma. “To tell a story of rocks is to account for a eugenic materialism in which white supremacy made surfaces built on racialised undergrounds,” she writes. She predictably asserts the natural superiority of “black, brown, and indigenous subjects… [who] have an intimacy with the earth that is unknown to the structural position of whiteness.” Yusoff insists that “geology continues to function within a white supremacist praxis.”
Pro tip: anyone who uses the word “praxis” unironically is not an educator but a woke political activist, and the same goes for any professor who indoctrinates students to don the blinders of cultural Marxism and see the boogeymen of structural racism and white supremacy everywhere.
For a taste of the book’s obfuscation disguised as profundity, here is a partial description of it on Amazon; presumably it met with Yusoff’s approval:
Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. At the same time, Yusoff turns to Caribbean, Indigenous, and Black thought to chart a parallel geologic epistemology of the “earth-bound” that challenges what and who the humanities have chosen to overlook in its stories of the earth. By reconsidering the material epistemologies of the earth as an on-going geotrauma in colonial afterlives, Yusoff demonstrates that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one.
Here’s the link, because I’m sure you’ll want to own a copy.
Tragically for naïve students who still think institutions of higher learning will teach them how to think and not what to think, Kathryn Yusoff is no kooky outlier in the groves of academe. The Telegraph notes that the push by such radical lecturers and student activists to “decolonize” university courses has swept across UK universities. The same agenda is inflicted on students here in the U.S.
In all fairness, not all academics are anti-intellectual activists. The Telegraph quotes Dr. John Armstrong, a reader in financial mathematics at King’s College London, for example, who correctly (and bravely) denounced decolonization as “politically contentious, anti-scientific, and consistently associated with calls to lower academic standards.”
Chris McGovan, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, addressed Yusoff’s work more bluntly: “Geology is no more racist than ‘fish ’n’ chips’! It is an entirely neutral term. Those seeking to decolonise the curriculum are, in fact, building their own sinister empire of thought-control and intolerance.”
McGovan went on to note that the “exploitation” of the earth is as old as mankind itself and not race-dependent, but those are inconvenient facts that Marxist activists like Kathryn Yusoff must ignore in order to idealize (and idolize) non-Western cultures and target for destruction the Eurocentric achievements and prosperity of the capitalist West.
One of the very first steps we must take to reclaim cultural domination from the grip of these hateful poseurs and to Make Western Civilization Great Again (unfortunately, that slogan makes for a terrible acronym) is to liberate our universities from this nihilistic, Godless, intellectual fraudulence and offer a real education to our youth. With Donald Trump headed back to the White House, the momentum seems to be swinging our way toward doing just that.
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The Mating call of the Liberalus Patheticus is WHINE WHINE WHINE
Yeah, how do they ever get laid?
By their own logic, the sun is racist. How, you might ask? Let me explain: Vitamin D (it’s actually a hormone that is naturally synthesized in the skin via UVB radiation from the sun. Vitamin D is necessary in 10% of the human body’s functions (e.g., immune system, the cardiovascular system, the endocrine system, and other metabolic pathways.)
To the point: melanin (the biomolecule in the human body that produces hair, eye and skin pigmentation) inhibits the synthesis of vitamin D from the sun’s UVB radiation. As a result, darker skin people have lower levels of Vitamin D than people with less melanin.
Therefore, the sun is racist because it discriminates against people with high levels of melanin in their skin (i.e.,darker skin people.)
Hey! Don’t blast me for this cockamamie bullsh*t! I’m just demonstrating the silliness of “liberal logic” pushed to the Nth degree!
That makes perfect sense. The tool of oppression requiring melanin for protection is the ultraviolent ray.
ALL sciences are racist. They expose the intellectual superiority of Asians and Jews.
Hillaryarious!!!
I disagree with the notion that Asians are intellectually superior. They.re not. It only seems that they are and the reason being is that for every hour we Americans study, they’ll study two.
Let me explain: I was an Electrical Engineering major in college and was often invited to sit in on their study groups in the campus library to help them with their engineering math homework. They struggled in math, physics and chemistry just like everyone else. Their advantage came from studying in groups and helping each other learn by rote practice.
Shame is an important attribute of Asian culture. Asian children study hard and get good grades because that’s what their parents expect and demand. Anything less brings shame upon the entire family.
By the way, a strong sense of shame also inhibits people from doing dumb and stupid things.
Shame is all but non-existent in American culture. Proof? Turn on the TV and witness the lack of shame. Worse yet, we’re no longer offended by people who have no sense of shame (e.g., Rupaul? Lizzo? Madonna?)
You just described most of the Jews I grew up with.
Guilt was used as a tool to light fires under our asses.
I rejected that eventually, and was labelled “underachiever” for my laziness.
My pre- and early teen years were in with the Jewish community. After that I was a stoner, which was a lot more fun.
You mean like Edison, Tesla, Bell, Marconi, Watson & Crick, Pasteur, Hawking, Baird, Farnsworth, Tim Berners Lee……
Largely, they’re the descendants of Shem. The late Bible teacher, Bob Barlow, thought the races were made at the tower of Babel. It made sense to me. Bob wrote a book on it.
“Kathryn Yusoff, a “professor of inhuman geography” at Queen Mary University of London. On her university page she describes her work as employing “historical, geophilosophical and black feminist methods to speak to issues of environmental change, empires of geologic practices and the politics of planetary states.” ”
B.S. Piled High and Deep. Sounds like a course that will get you on the fast track job to nowhere.
‘Inhuman’ is the operative word here. Is she human in fact? This is someone who has de-sexualized itself to the point where it’s hard to tell where the female and the male begin and end. And the faux intellectual mumbo jumbo is the kind of garbage that always impresses the moronic educational ferals who can’t focus on anything specific.
So just throw in a pile of post modern gobbledegook and hope that the idiots who hire her can’t see the educational grift that is right in front of their faces.
Forty years ago my wife took an intro to geology course. She said everyone jokingly called the course “Rocks for Jocks.” Just geology, no political agenda, those were the better days.
Personally, I don’t give a Schist ( note the pun) about her fake course of Academic Flatulence. Neither should any student or anybody at the university that is enabling her twisted deviant claptrap.
Just when you think these dangerous libs can’t get more dangerously depraved and irrational. There truly is no bottom to the liberal abyss.
Stop the world and let me off!!
You need steroids to lift the world to get off.
I agree with your Sediments.
Hold on. When EVERYTHING is racist, then nothing will be racist. LOL
And I thought Kamala suffered from “word salad itis”. You notice these Marxist utopians never articulate what the results of their deconstruction projects will look like. Dystopia is more likely the ending scenario.
On a planet where maybe 1/10 of humans could be said to be ‘white’, we have the novel idea about ” the white supremacy of the planet”.
I’ve always found it laughable that some stupid leftists, academics included, consider ‘nonwhite’ peoples, (so-called BIPOC) to have the label “minority” attached to them worldwide.
“Those seeking to decolonise the curriculum are, in fact, building their own sinister empire of thought-control and intolerance.”
I had a brief conversation with my old department head yesterday. We touched up on this subject from a different perspective.
It’s one thing to have some pretender trying to reconstruct knowledge that was pretty-well established until recently. People are pretty good at recognizing a crackpot. Yet, what appears to be happening, even among university staff and faculty who ought to know better, that a real education on the concrete and central concepts in the sciences (and by extension engineering and technology), an education that allows critical thinking to reach non-absurd results, is being replaced with a structure that looks superficially the same, but which more streamlines this drive toward mal-education.
I am hoping a new trajectory appears soon.
I thought I heard a weird noise as I was reading this. I figured out it was my late Uncle Jack, spinning like a lathe. He did geologic studies in the oil industry for decades and even when he was on vacation, he wanted to poke around on an exposed rock face if he could find one.. This ‘professor’ couldn’t carry his rock hammer. Miss ya’ Jack!
Pervs have a beef with civilization that nothing will make go away.
Yussof looks about as female as does Rachel Marrow. They might be sisters.
Is that a man or a woman?
Did Andy Warhol come back to life as a gay pseudo intellectual?
Does Yusoff ever get around to teaching geology? Does she even know any? Is anybody wishing to learn geology going to buy her book, especially from that synopsis?
No, her purpose is to occupy a space at a higher learning center to deconstruct Western Civ, while pointedly, not teaching actual geology. Geology is a fascinating subject, but somebody hired her to not teach it there,