What's racist about Darwin?

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It's interesting how Richard Dawkins mentioned that he believes a racial human animal hierarchy exists within mankind from a biological perspective.
When this is the very same pseudo scientific ideology that was used in support of Nazi racial science called "scientific racism" according to the encyclopedia and peer reviewed articles on the subject of Darwinism and racism:

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Scientific racism
Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, or racial superiority. Historically, scientific racism received credence throughout the scientific community, but it is no longer considered scientific. Dividing humankind into biologically distinct groups is sometimes called racialism, race realism, or race science by its proponents. Modern scientific consensus rejects this view as being irreconcilable with modern genetic research.
Scientific racism was common during the period from the 1600s to the end of World War II. Since the second half of the 20th century, scientific racism has been criticized as obsolete and discredited, yet has persistently been used to support or validate racist world-views, based upon belief in the existence and significance of racial categories and a hierarchy of superior and inferior races.

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Race, Racism, and Darwinism
William H. Jeynes
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This article examines the views of Darwinist evolution on issues regarding race and how this contributed to the spread of racism in the United States. The writings of Charles Darwin and a myriad of his followers are examined, including Herbert Spencer, Francis Galton, and others. The influence of Darwinism in contributing to the growth of institutional racism and the teaching of scientifically based racist thought is addressed. The article also examines how Darwinist evolutionary thought affected the nation’s beliefs about those with special needs and how this contributed to people’s perceptions about people of color. The author asserts that the blatant inaccuracies of Darwinist evolution regarding race raise questions about the theory’s overall veracity and how teachers should approach instruction regarding Darwin’s theory.
 

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It's interesting how Richard Dawkins mentioned that he believes a racial human animal hierarchy exists within mankind from a biological perspective.
When this is the very same pseudo scientific ideology that was used in support of Nazi racial science called "scientific racism" according to the encyclopedia and peer reviewed articles on the subject of Darwinism and racism:

Wikipedia
Scientific racism
Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, or racial superiority. Historically, scientific racism received credence throughout the scientific community, but it is no longer considered scientific. Dividing humankind into biologically distinct groups is sometimes called racialism, race realism, or race science by its proponents. Modern scientific consensus rejects this view as being irreconcilable with modern genetic research.
Scientific racism was common during the period from the 1600s to the end of World War II. Since the second half of the 20th century, scientific racism has been criticized as obsolete and discredited, yet has persistently been used to support or validate racist world-views, based upon belief in the existence and significance of racial categories and a hierarchy of superior and inferior races.

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Race, Racism, and Darwinism
William H. Jeynes
Abstract
This article examines the views of Darwinist evolution on issues regarding race and how this contributed to the spread of racism in the United States. The writings of Charles Darwin and a myriad of his followers are examined, including Herbert Spencer, Francis Galton, and others. The influence of Darwinism in contributing to the growth of institutional racism and the teaching of scientifically based racist thought is addressed. The article also examines how Darwinist evolutionary thought affected the nation’s beliefs about those with special needs and how this contributed to people’s perceptions about people of color. The author asserts that the blatant inaccuracies of Darwinist evolution regarding race raise questions about the theory’s overall veracity and how teachers should approach instruction regarding Darwin’s theory.

What I am seeing there is that "ALM" is the best non-racist POV as opposed to BLM. Are you sure you are comfortable with that? A lot of people having been agreeing to the non-racist "All lives matter" idea - but that deletes the very BLM racist distinctions you are talking about in the case of science - does it not??

Racism can show up when politicians say "a law enforcement shot an uncooperative man while trying to make an arrest - but he was white so it is no big deal"
 
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What I am seeing there is that "ALM" is the best non-racist POV as opposed to BLM. Are you sure you are comfortable with that? A lot of people having been agreeing to the non-racist "All lives matter" idea - but that deletes the very BLM racist distinctions you are talking about in the case of science - does it not??

Racism can show up when politicians say "a law enforcement shot an uncooperative man while trying to make an arrest - but he was white so it is no big deal"


...Gee? I'm so sorry if I have offended you by me pointing out that Dawkins Darwinian beliefs are racist...Oh my? What ever shall I do? Woe is me!!!

The Linnean Society website - Scientific racism
One of the origins of scientific racism can be traced to Linnaeus’ work on the classification of man, which had devastating and far-reaching consequences for humanity.
Linnaeus’ work on the classification of man forms one of the 18th-century roots of modern scientific racism. This page aims to look at Linnaeus’ works in detail, both printed and in manuscript, to trace the development of an idea which became fundamental in the history of anthropology and has had devastating and far-reaching consequences for humanity, including the dehumanisation of non-Europeans and justification of evils like slavery and indigenous genocide.

By the 10th edition of Systema naturae, Linnaeus switched the order in which the varieties appear yet again, and chose to place Americanus first, possibly influenced by ideas of the ‘noble savage’. One variety never varied in this hierarchy, however: Africanus consistently remained at the bottom of the list. Moreover, in all editions, Linnaeus’ description of Africanus was the longest, most detailed and physical, and also the most negative.

How did Linnaeus contribute to Darwin's theory?
How did Linnaeus's work influence Darwin? Carolus Linnaeus developed the basis of our modern taxonomical system of classification and came up with binomial nomenclature. ... This theory could help isolate other variables in Darwin's theory, then, which could help him better understand evolution and natural selection.

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Peer reviewed article
Race, Racism, and Darwinism
Abstract
This article examines the views of Darwinist evolution on issues regarding race and how this contributed to the spread of racism in the United States. The writings of Charles Darwin and a myriad of his followers are examined, including Herbert Spencer, Francis Galton, and others. The influence of Darwinism in contributing to the growth of institutional racism and the teaching of scientifically based racist thought is addressed. The article also examines how Darwinist evolutionary thought affected the nation’s beliefs about those with special needs and how this contributed to people’s perceptions about people of color. The author asserts that the blatant inaccuracies of Darwinist evolution regarding race raise questions about the theory’s overall veracity and how teachers should approach instruction regarding Darwin’s theory.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Social Darwinism declined in popularity as a purportedly scientific concept following the First World War, and was largely discredited by the end of the Second World War—partially due to its association with Nazism and partially due to a growing scientific consensus that it was scientifically groundless.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia
The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials. Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher. Hermann Göring was also scheduled to be hanged on that day, but committed suicide using a potassium cyanide capsule the night before. Martin Bormann was also sentenced to death in absentia; at the time his whereabouts were unknown, but it is now thought that he committed suicide while attempting to escape Berlin on 2 May 1945.

The sentences were carried out in the gymnasium of Nuremberg Prison by the United States Army using the standard drop method instead of long drop.
 
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What I am seeing there is that "ALM" is the best non-racist POV as opposed to BLM. Are you sure you are comfortable with that? A lot of people having been agreeing to the non-racist "All lives matter" idea - but that deletes the very BLM racist distinctions you are talking about in the case of science - does it not??

Racism can show up when politicians say "a law enforcement shot an uncooperative man while trying to make an arrest - but he was white so it is no big deal"


Maybe BLM and their Atheist movement can take a small tour past the American holocaust museum while their rioting to take a peak at what real fascism looked like under total Darwinism in Germany:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website
Nazi racial science and the teaching of evolution: Darwinism.
Introduction
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation’s “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. With the patina of legitimacy provided by “racial” science experts, the Nazi regime carried out a program of approximately 400,000 forced sterilizations and over 275,000 euthanasia deaths that found its most radical manifestation in the death of millions of “racial” enemies in the Holocaust.

This campaign was based in part on ideas about public health and genetic “fitness” that had grown out of the inclination of many late nineteenth century scientists and intellectuals to apply the Darwinian concepts of evolution to the problems of human society.

These ideas became known as eugenics and found a receptive audience in countries as varied as Brazil, France, Great Britain, and the United States. But in Germany, in the traumatic aftermath of World War I and the subsequent economic upheavals of the twenties, eugenic ideas found a more virulent expression when combined with the Nazi worldview that espoused both German racial superiority and militaristic ultranationalism.
 
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