04/22/2017
“Scientists know the role that they play. For example, there is no reason that engineers should be consenting to design weapons of mass destruction and better forms of surveillance devices that [ultimately] end up being used against black people in the United States.”
“[But the problem is that researchers] do not want to be held accountable because that’s going to cost them some money, given the nature of the society that we live in,” said McLean, who also runs a political and science education website, Decolonize All the Things. “We sell death. We sell destruction. We sell corruption. We sell crisis for profit. And then we sell you everything that will save you from those things for profit. That’s how capitalism works, and a lot of scientists do not want to lose out on that. Do you want to save the scientific industry or humanity? You can’t do both.”
Despite overwhelming data demonstrating that Donald Trump rode a wave of white resentment across age, gender, income and education levels into the Oval Office, there is still a strong—and wrong—chorus of people on “the left” who believe we can work with the Trump administration and that our collecti...
