RE: Evolution Facts
July 13, 2014 at 1:46 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2014 at 2:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
He was a man of his time. Yep. He was also an abolitionist. People can be complicated. Try The Descent of Man.
Bear in mind, that at his time the word "racist" as we use it today we simply sound absurd. There were races of plants. Not people. He constantly made the case that with regards to people, we shouldn't really think in terms of race (species) - that we were all one species. Nevertheless, there is the assumption of western european (read:white) superiority just about everywhere in his comments with regards to what we would call races. He just didn't think it was a measure of biology.
(there's a tendency to "mythicize" important people and their positions on issues that resonate with us today, for better or worse - so while one side might say that darwinism led to eugenics and nazism - it didn't; the other would claim that evolutionary theory dispelled the myth of white supremecy - it didn't)
Bear in mind, that at his time the word "racist" as we use it today we simply sound absurd. There were races of plants. Not people. He constantly made the case that with regards to people, we shouldn't really think in terms of race (species) - that we were all one species. Nevertheless, there is the assumption of western european (read:white) superiority just about everywhere in his comments with regards to what we would call races. He just didn't think it was a measure of biology.
(there's a tendency to "mythicize" important people and their positions on issues that resonate with us today, for better or worse - so while one side might say that darwinism led to eugenics and nazism - it didn't; the other would claim that evolutionary theory dispelled the myth of white supremecy - it didn't)
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