Again prestigious Nature journal is disseminating propaganda and demagoguery! This guest editorial was then also highly featured by U.S. ivy league universities! It is quite shocking that Nature publishes such a ideological pamphlet and plans to publish more of it!!!
This editorial is loaded with ideological terms and imagery! E.g. the authors are obsessed with the European colonization of Africa and other parts of the world as if colonization or enslavement was never pursued by the so called indigenous peoples themselves.
As if indigenous peoples never had any notions of racism.
"For centuries, European governments supported the enslavement of African populations and the subjugation of Indigenous people around the world. ...
Apartheid, colonization, forced labour, imperialism and slavery have left an indelible mark on science. ...
Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the expansion of the Black Lives Matter movement into science, Nature was among those institutions that pledged to listen, learn and change. ...
Nature invited us to serve as guest editors — notably, to advise on the production of a series of special issues on racism in science, the first of which is due to be published later this year. ..."
Apartheid, colonization, forced labour, imperialism and slavery have left an indelible mark on science. ...
Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the expansion of the Black Lives Matter movement into science, Nature was among those institutions that pledged to listen, learn and change. ...
Nature invited us to serve as guest editors — notably, to advise on the production of a series of special issues on racism in science, the first of which is due to be published later this year. ..."
Protestors attend a march for Black Lives Matter in Austin, Texas, in June 2020
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