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Imagine my disappointment when I got to The Dark Side of the Moon
And it doesn't even have the decency to stay in the same place. According to this guy's estimate you'd have to move across the surface at about 9.5 miles or 15.3 kilometers per hour to stay in the Dark Side at the equator.
Thats not what "dark side of the moon" means. From Wikipedia
I've only ever heard boomers, racists, and idiots use the word "dark" to mean "unknown" or call it the "dark" side when they meant "far" side.
It doesn't mean "the far side". It means "the side we can't see". Like you can't see when it's dark. Idk how you even managed to crowbar race into this but I'm a little impressed by the audacity of it.
Your privilege is showing if you seriously have never confronted the racist undertones of the white colonial idea of darkness. Just for a start "The Heart of Darkness", the dark continent, the epithet "darky". There's so many more it's often practically it's got own college class devoted to the subject.
Fine, but there's none of that here. You're looking so hard that you see it in places it's never been.
Yeah, I've also only ever heard that from racists and fools too.
You’re quite right. It’s literally everyone else who’s wrong. The Dark Ages is racist. Dark Matter is racist. Dark energy is racist. Phillip Pullman is racist.
Or you could admit that your vocabulary isn’t comprehensive and that you don’t already know everything.
Alright whatever champ
The common phrase “in the dark” denotes being in the unknown. What about Captain Li Shang from the film Mulan describing the dark side of the moon as “mysterious”, an approximate synonym of “unknown”? It seems like you’re being very reductive.
I imagine most people don’t consider the specifics of astronomy when using the phrase in reference to the moon; it’s even common in media today to see crescent moons with stars located where there should be shadow.