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If you can understand forces like electricity and magnetism, you can understand how a force like white supremacy works. That is why I hate apolitical scientists, because you're being willfully ignorant of reality for no logical reason. Your intolerance effortlessly translates into daily actions and honestly, just your personality. Ignoring such a big fact about the world means your ignorance is all you become. How could it not when you deny the truth at every turn?
Radical scientists like me, we want a world where knowledge is accurately valued. For too long people have overvalued white, male, capitalist, murderous knowledge and science has greatly suffered from that imbalance. Science is a fundamental pursuit of humanity and I think there are so many people out there whose purpose in life is scientific study & discovery. But a million killers have killed hundreds of millions who could've changed the world with their minds, eradicating that knowledge for no logical, rational, or valid emotional reason. To me, it's pure logical sense that human diversity in science results in a more enlightened world for all, and that things improving for everyone is good for EVERYONE including YOURSELF. I'm selfish the same way every human is and it makes so much sense to grab the answer that will sustain us than kill us. That's why for so long my reaction to close-minded scientists was emotional, because the lack of base logic is upsetting. For them, their brain hears "circle" and goes to "square" while mine hears "circle" and goes to "sphere". The snap logic is so immediate, like sight words for elementary school kids. I guess that's why they act like children when you try to change their mind. I oscillate between condescension and empathy which makes me think I'm not best suited for dealing with ignorant scientists, because I think they deserve more empathy than I can muster.
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