Because Chuds are wrong about everything for the wrong reasons.
Dwarf planets are bullshit, not because anyone gives a fuck about Pluto, because nobody wants to memorize dozens of different TNOs and kuiper belt objects.
Fuck you Sedna, you piece of shit, I'm mandating a return to the OG definition of planet - Eyeball visible points of light that act weird. Neptune is now a large comet.
I want to hear your thoughts about Uranus.
I liked when it was called George
How dare you not call my big beautiful boy a planet? Do you see me trying to reclassify your children based on their size and other factors I am too stupid to understand?
I think it might be, in some small part, because this is one of the fundamental things you learn in elementary school science in the american school system (memorize the nine planets) and it is probably one of the precious few things the average american actually remembers from their schooling/about science in general. Couple that with the main character syndrome we have, and a change to their worldview is probably interpreted as a personal attack against them somehow
it's literally the same bit people have when confronted with anything that goes against what they learned in school. CRT and that new math technique thing obviously, but it's also why people yell "basic biology" or "economics 101" or "read a history book" whenever someone tries to explain anything outside of that curriculum to a good chunk of the populous
some sort of lingering trauma related to wasting your childhood in a prison-like facility that teaches you lies. you've gotta double down on it lest you confront that maybe we shouldn't treat children this way
new math technique thing
ive seen many-a-chud bitch about the crt in schools (not that that even really happens at least that im aware of( .... but i have no clue what this is
had to look it up again "Common core math"
it just teaches kids how numbers are made up of individual parts basically, but it looks confusing at first and then people freaked out
The funny thing is, it was still considered a planet... A dwarf planet.
Being a dwarf planet doesn't make it any less of a planet (outside of describing it's size)
People just let their own prejudices show.
Ceres deserves to be a planet. It's round. It's not orbitting another planet. Who cares if that means there are fifty planets in the solar system instead of 8?
I don't think most people know about Trans-Neptunian Objects and the various Kuiper Belt planetoids, doubly so in 2006, so it probably felt like a much bigger deal back then.
i remember in 4th grade (~2007-08) soyfacing :soypoint-1: seeing new textbooks with pluto removed from solar system pictures :purge-1: :purge-2:
They told me it's a planet in school they can't backtrack on us now
, it made no sense to consider Ceres akin to other planets
ehhhhhhhhh they could have decided that planets were any body not orbitting another body that was massive enough to form a spherical shape under it's own gravity. The definition of planet is totally arbitrary and the only reason they changed Pluto's designation is that they figured it would be less of a problem to have seven planets than to have forty or fifty.
Just feels like an underdog. Out there in the cold. Wanna root for the lil trooper.
It's because they remember learning about Pluto when they were a kid and reactionary nostalgia is huge
I mean I don't remember them going full babyrage when they replaced the food pyramid. Why Pluto?
I remember some anger but thats because the food pyramid is ultimately something that tells you what to do, so they already hate it. Pluto is a planet is like, the last time they remember learning something pleasant.
unironically I think the rick and morty episode about it is pretty spot on
thing I learned in childhood has to be true
else i am violently angry
I want them to officially stop teaching europe as a continent (because it isn't one). The mald might shatter earth
