Woke Leftists Look to the Cosmos and Find . . . Racism, of Course!
And there we have it, friends, proof there is absolutely nothing the Left can’t find racism in or define through the narrow prism of race.
In Astro 20434, Cornell astronomy professor Nicholas Battaglia and comparative literature professor Parisa Vaziri challenge that so-called conventional wisdom not through the latest scientifically sound astronomy textbooks, but through the works of black racial “theorists like Michelle Wright and Denise Ferreira da Silva; authors like Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson; [and] music by Sun Ra, Outkast, and Janelle Monáe.”
According to Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute, these black racialists, like Wright, are the wokest of the woke:
Emory University English professor Michelle Wright’s book, The Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, invokes “Newton’s laws of motion and gravity” and “theoretical particle physics” to “subvert racist assumptions about Blackness.”
Not to be outdone, Afrofuturism author Octavia Butler writes science fiction that doesn’t feature “white male heroes who blast aliens and become the saviors of brown people.” For Butler, imagination and science fiction are “a strategy for surviving an unjust world on one’s own terms.” Her works take discrimination based on race, gender, class, or ability and puts it in contexts such as space and time travel:
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