Kulturkampf

[benji]

Somehow, indigenous people are inhabiting and caring for "so-called" outer space?

This is actually really common in a lot of the social sciences, they take something material and concrete like "outer space" then switch it to being a metaphor and therefore can make a claim about something completely unrelated as if they're citing science. The Sokal hoax was targeting academics who would do this with physics.

A really big one is the observer effect, none of them understand that it's a specific concept about quantum physics and doesn't apply to anything else. Which doesn't stop them from citing as proven scientific fact that simply observing anything in any way changes the results and then extrapolating from there using related metaphors.

Without even reading this article I know she's going to say "aboriginals have knowledge about spaces outside of mainstream ones and live successfully despite being in this 'outer' space while having their own concepts of space as in area so therefore they must also have accurate knowledge about actual outer space because it is also a space and an area while being actual space." And because of standpoint epistemology no white person can actually understand this, except a select caste with the proper ideology, so has no grounds to say it's incorrect. There will be a bunch of examples of random ass aboriginal words and terms and she'll say "who are we to say when they say this they don't mean the ways planets orbit and what's on Saturn and how much thrust a rocket needs to get there?" And because of all of this then what we need is quotas and mandatory laws forcing everyone to waste their time pretending this knowledge has equivalent scientific value to modern value, all with lots and lots of funding. No, that's not enough funding. More.