my desperate plea for scientists to give a shit about imperialism
This has no business being downvoted, an excellent video from an excellent creator.
I feel you on that. She’s a sharp and critical thinker in two domains. Something few can do.
Of all the places where a video like this would be taken seriously, or at least met with substantial criticism… I’d think it’d be this one. Kneejerk downvotes for a video with this title would make perfect sense from reactionaries, but I thought we’d be far away from those here.
Could the topic of how astronomy as a profession enables colonial sentiment be launched into faster? Sure. But does that make it wrong when a telescope gets treated as more important than indigenous populations gets launched into? Hell no. Incendiary title does not a bad argument make.
Within the first minute of the video, I was reminded of how I was introduced to the Pale Blue Dot not from the perspective of a scientist, but by a piece of creationist, Christian propaganda.
