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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Darwin took 20+ years to write On The Origin Of Species and in that time became a DEEP believer in the rights of all men, and the fallacy of the slave trade and the supposedly inherent inferiority of africans.
Darwin's work actually stuck the first nail in the coffin of these racist assholes. 200 years later racist fucks are still upset that Darwin provided a mechanism by which nature created all of us, black white whatever, out of the same cloth, how we are all deeply related.
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umm, that is not correct.
Descent of Man, the book with all those nice racists quotes I provided was written
AFTER origin of species, and published in the 1870s..
while it is true that Darwin was against the slave trade, he WAS not in favor of any kind of belief in the equality of Europeans and Africans, he believed them savage and inferior, or did you not read the quotes? There are plenty more, but I am not writing a research paper on Darwin here, you just have to read that book for yourself
further, for the fifty years immediately following Darwin, his theories, far from ending racism, were used to SUPPORT it as Social Darwinism and Eugenics..
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathus relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried out on by thoughts and not by bites
notice he does not say it is TRUE.
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no, he says is HIS philosophy that they ARE NOT EQUAL is true..
in fact, in that quote Darwin is saying that he is impressed that Africans with smaller brains and bigger jaws who he says "are not equal" could compete. He is impressed that inferior Africans can even compete with white men at all, he is not claiming equality by a long shot.
i'm not trying to discredit the science of darwin here, just point out his bigotry in relation to the Darwin is NOT a racist thread, because that idea is bullshit when he clearly was.. you can be a racist and still have good ideas aside from your racism, but lets be honest about history instead of whitewashing our cultural heroes in the face of idealism.
If i can accept that Haile Selassie was an elitist, than surely y'all can accept that Darwin was a racist.