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HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Have you ever been to a niche scientific community conference? It’s always been 90% politics.

The Magellanic Cloud community collectively decided that they didn’t want to study objects named after someone who had subjugated the communities of ancestors studying it, so they agreed to call them the Milky Clouds. A pop science article went out about it and people complained that it wasn’t science, it was politics. But unless you’re a part of that community, you don’t get to decide on the names of the objects that these people understand better than literally anyone else alive or dead. They’re doing more science regarding these objects than anyone else has ever tried, they get to decide what’s best, even if it appears political.

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SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And that’s how you end up with Gulf of America

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- HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I see it as the exact opposite. If we let the professionals, i.e. cartographers and historians hold the reigns rather than people who don’t have anything to do with it, eg. some pedophile politicians, nothing would have been changed.
  
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  - fishos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Wtf are you going on about? I’m talking about changing the name of a plant because it’s discoverer was a racist. Nothing about politicians or pedophiles. Ffs, some of you have brain rot as bad as the MAGA. I’m literally saying that history should remain accurate and not try to whitewash away the negatives.
    
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    HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Hey buddy this comment wasn’t a reply to you. Thanks for the insults tho really helps things out
    
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- fishos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Remember, it’s only revisionist history if it’s the history you don’t like.
  
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fishos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“unless you’re a part of the community fuck you”

I can see why it got heated…

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- HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Well yes, generally that’s how jargon is developed. Typically people who don’t contribute to the knowledge base of a field don’t have any say in how that field uses language.
  
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