I am addressing my experience and reality here in the UK and seeking to make sense of the erasure and marginalisation of the majority of the world population, the misrepresentation of the white /European perspective as the human perspective, and working out how the terms used skew the reality seen...

Based in India, you will have a better grip of India politics than I, but Vandana Shiva is incontestably a hero for tribal peoples and the marginalised world majority as a whole, as she has dedicated her life to exposing and opposing the profit-seeking machinations of Western corporations.

It's beyond the scope of my article to go into depth about people I'm giving as examples of thinkers /analysers who see beyond the conceptual categories of the often unconsciously self-serving white scientists.

I am not' absolving people of colour' that 's just not the central feature of the analysis which is addressing the power to name and shape realtiy intergenerational, thus shaping scientific discourse ie through what teachers teach...

With respect, Des, you do tend to go off on tangents and don't seem to see the central points. I often read an article twice, which helps me absorb what the writer is saying, while with a cursory read, I find my own subjectivity is kind of overlayed on top of the writer's words. I think you do that a lot, which is why you go off spinning strange tangents, or arriving at conclusions that are simply wrong - eg am I absolving 'people of colour'? No, I'm sick of the power-seeking perverts like Priti Palmar and Colin Power and other such sellouts one sees in everyday life, colluding with the illicit power of White Empire.

Engaging with you always leaves me feeling a bit annoyed and frustrated. How much of an effort do you make to understand what the writer is saying? I think, very little.. Honestly!