Black Coal, White Guilt: Mining the Dark Depths of ‘Anti-Racist’ Geology
Back in the days when I was at school, we used to study a subject called ‘Human Geography’ which taught us all about mankind’s impact on the environment, in terms of the effects of creating and maintaining cities, industry and farmlands. Recently, the amused British media discovered there was an entirely new geographical subdiscipline now available to students instead, called ‘Inhuman Geography’, whose first known professor, Kathryn Yusoff, is currently employed at the (formerly) prestigious Queen Mary University of London.
Ironically, Yusoff appears to be a human herself, at least approximately so, but mocking media write-ups of her latest textbook for students, Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race, reveal she does not necessarily write like one. Her basic idea is that geology itself is racist, being linked indelibly to “white supremacy” as its earliest main theorists, like Sir Charles Lyell, were those dreaded white European Christian males of the pre-modern colonial era.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18621076/
Of course. Another facet of Omniwar.
Thanks for that link. Interesting perspective (although unfortunately full paper behind paywall). Am currently slowly working my way through “The Stress of LIfe,” written in 1956 by Hans Selye…
https://www.scribd.com/document/306873419/the-stress-of-life-pdf
“…This book is dedicated to those who are not afraid to enjoy the stress of a full life, nor so naive to think they can do so without intellectual effort.”
Am inclined to think unpicking cause and effect of exposure to low levels of chemicals is inherently complicated. Over to that recent foe, epidemiologists…
Another academic idiot with a Pretty Happy Dude degree. She can write, publish, teach. Frightening. Lock her/it up in a white jacket, in a small room. Or, strip it/her naked and let her run naked into the Andes (deforested by the Incas) and scratch out a living in harmony with ‘genderless’ nature. Nature is not your mommy and won’t ‘select’ you for anything, except death.
Don’t strip her naked. Let her carry as much of the modern world with her as she likes. If she survives a year I’d be surprised but would ask her about the materials and development behind whatever she found most useful.
Once a fruitcake, always a fruitcake.
For the record, some of the antecedents I know of were intimate with soil, clay, coal, bricks, mortar, steel and the mud, slime and gore of the trenches of Flanders and Picardy of just over a century ago.
In other words, labourers, factory workers, artisans and two reluctant soldiers, thankfully returned safely to A Land Fit For Heroes to Live In – and the two grandparents I knew best were staunchly never Labour voters.
Blancophobia is a terrible affliction.
I’ve stopped putting milk in my coffee. To convert something so intrinsically black into something white is so racist I might as well be Joseph Mengele.
No. No. You’re looking at it wrong. You’re turning the pale, evil milk brown.
She is INSANE ! So what of the People & System that gave her the Job 🤔
Well, we all know that the reason African kings had such vast personal wealth in gold was that they did the hard and dangerous work of mining it themselves. This enabled them to buy slaves with whom they shared the gold equally, of course.
Hence when the richest man in the world, King Mansa Muli I of Mali, went on pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, “Mansa Musa’s caravan included 100 camels which carried 135 kilos (300 pounds) of gold dust while 500 slaves each brandished a 2.7 kilo (6 pounds) gold staff.” How lucky to be a slave when they were the equal of kings!
History doesn’t seem to record other African kings shopping in Cairo with lumps of lead. It’s almost as though there was a mineral hierarchy before the white geologists, but that’s an absurd anachronism.
It must be exhausting continually coming up with this blatantly anti-white racist nonsense.
But it pays! Heaven knows why, or who even listens to this crap.
Are the correct pronouns being used in this article? You don’t want to upset his disturbed person further, Steven.
The book must be self-published, surely. No commercial firm would touch it I hope.
who buys it. Ah, tax payers.
how can she retain an academic position after writing such trash.
More to the point, how did she get one in the first place
To “include” the non-academic in academia.
Thanks for this instructive article. It was the Nazis who invented the idea that there exists on the Earth a race of world poisoners. And it’s interesting to see our nihilist and decadent New Dark Age academics adopting and adapting it.
But sometimes it’s hard to work out which folder on my computer to save these articles in. Should I save them in my Anti-whitism folder? Or the New Dark Age? Or Nihilism? Or Decadence?
Whut? No cross-reference system? 🙂
You mentioned a political party, that, about one hundred years ago was a National Socialist Party for their Country’s workers, in preference to, and the exclusion of some nationalities. Today we reside in a Country governed by a National Socialist Party and its minions, pursuing the exclusion and eradication of its own nation and workers in support of other nationals. Either way, each political action could and most probably, be described as a genocide.
I agree. But it’s an extraordinary situation to be ruled by a group that intends to destroy us as a people, and replace us with a new people. Has there ever been a situation like this anywhere in the past?
Not to my knowledge. It seems that, all through history the elite have generally, and verging on always, had a distain for the pleb. But I have never encountered an elite in a society which is intent on a purpose of ridding themselves of the plebs they distain, to replace them with another set of plebs from elsewhere. I have a notion that the replacement plebs will not be as pliant as the ones they have eradicated.
This must be satire surely?
Britain only ever sent black people down the coal mines. You can tell from the photographs of them when they were occasionally allowed up to the surface for a few minutes. Black I tell you.
She does look quite white! Is there maybe some cultural appropriation going on here?
There again, if a man can declare himself a woman (and vice versa), then surely a white person can declare themselves as black (or brown) and vice versa.
In a world where reality is optional.
Oh, that bridge was crossed some time ago…
They are grasping at straws, and straw men now. Its ludicrous.
Thank the Lord she is not Indian. One wobble of the head and it would be rolling down the street with her headless and, therefore, blind body chasing it. In the wrong direction.
To find a deluded fanatical idealist, first look in academia.
In the immortal words of Arthur Fallowfield, “the answer lies in the soil”
Well, I for one have no doubt that a module in “inhuman geography” will be an asset to any student…
Utter gibberish cosplaying as “academia”.
She’s obviously winging it. I reckon the little sign on the bottom left of her photo gives the game away.
Another cheerfully irreverent article by Steven Tucker, full of amusing quotes, but I liked this one as a pithy summary about rewriting books:
“Rewriting them to make White People look like Universal Bastards, obviously.”
I don’t imagine that there is any room in Yusoff’s anguish about Ethnic African miners for discussing why the ancient Cornish Tin Mines had such extremely small tunnels. It’s because the miners were White Children, usually enslaved.
Bet she drives a leccy car too, in a beautiful irony.
In my school days we just had Geography…
Have any students actually signed up for a course with this nut job? If so, they must be as loopy as she/him is
This is a remarkably measured piece considering what nonsense it is considering. I have an allotment on which I spend a lot of time being intimate with the soil. But then, as I can classify myself in several ethnic groups thanks to my immigrant father (the name is a clue) I make rather a mess of the black-white divide.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive mad. But they seem to be taking their time…
Sorry – I forgot this site uses my blog name. Bamji is my real one!
Just another nonentity trying to strike up sufficient woke interest to justify an appearance at some woke university involving flights (horrible white invention!) to far-off places where they’ll lie and convince her she’s wonderful, when all along they’ll not understand a word she utters.
Perhaps we could ask her to Yous off?
Soon gone and very quickly forgotten.
Next!
This is how our Universities have been captured, and will die as a result.
Kathryn Yusoff and her ilk are parasitic in how they attach themselves to formerly respected disciplines, and proceed to inject identity/eco politics into the discourse.
This means that the study of geography now has less to do with a study of the Earth, and more to do with fighting against perceived injustice.