Impossible!: On the other hand:
I would guess that none of the people driving their ancient Volvos or newish Lexuses with Darwin badges of intelligence (as they see it) realize that 12 years after he published his most famous work, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, an unapologetic treatise claiming that some races (cough!) are more intelligent than others. But Down Under, where the capital of the vast Northern Territory sports his name, they have noticed that Darwin was a white supremacist. Michael Madigan of the Brisbane Courier-Mail writes in a paywalled article:
“[C]alling Charles Darwin, that towering scientific figure of the last millennium and father of evolutionary biology, a white supremacist doesn’t quite hit the mark.
“Chuck was the white supremacist’s White Supremacist — the man who actually wrote the book on white supremacy… “
Writing for a publication of the National Institutes of Health, Steven Rose says that in addition to being a racist, Darwin was unforgivably sexist.
Thomas Lifson, “It’s time for atheists and progs with Darwin bumper stickers to get rid of their white supremacist dog whistles” at American Thinker
It’s a good thing Darwin’s long dead so we needn’t pay for him to have a 24-hour bodyguard.
But seriously, much as this stupid culture-wrecking is deplorable, the fact is, many of us have tried to talk about Darwin’s racism for many years, only to be rebuffed by sneery Darwinists who claimed – in total defiance of facts – that it ain’t so because Darwin… opposed slavery!
Well, it’s a good thing he did. But a racist could certainly oppose slavery on a number of grounds. In the same way that a person who thinks that women are not equal to men can certainly oppose polygamy. One can oppose a given cultural practice without making any claims at all about equality of persons.
If Darwin’s bronze head rolls… we just wish we could have had a constructive discussion earlier.
See also: Darwin reader: Darwin’s racism
Hat tip: Ken Francis, co-author with Theodore Dalrymple of The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd
Charles Darwin was more than just an average racist of his day. He was the father of eugenics and his writing influenced all the evils that occurred as a result.
And I think everybody needs to know that, so when those raging mobs that want to rip down Abraham Lincoln statue because apparently somehow manages to be racist,
, Christopher Columbus, and George Washington, I just want to make sure that there’s a certain group also gets to suffer right along side everybody else as a watch their precious darling Darwin get ripped down by the same angry mobs they helped create
Because he legitimately was a racist
The mobs who tear down statues and want to destroy all marks of history, have created an impossibly purity test that no one can live up to. Charles Darwin was a racist whose work led directly to the eugenics movement and gave credence to the evils of communism. If there is no God, then there can be no moral foundation for anything. If people are nothing more than animals, then they can be slaughtered as animals are slaughtered. Stalin and Hitler were both influenced by Darwin’s writings.
Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist who supported Nazis. Her work to pass forced sterilization laws in California was what the Nazis based their own sterilization laws after. The Nazis referred to it as the California plan. She was the founder of Planned Parenthood and held up as every bit the saint as Darwin is today.
Hillary Clinton, upon receiving the Margaret Sanger award from Planned Parenthood, said that she greatly admired everything Margaret Sanger did.
For the record: I have never heard anyone in the ID community talk of defacing or removing Darwin’s statue.
The mobs of Raging Stupids are not sent by us.
From what one can tell, they probably could not distinguish between a statue of Darwin, of Martin Luther King, or of Mary, mother of Jesus. If only they could lose themselves in a cornfield somewhere, on their way to wreck their next target… It’s unclear why they are tolerated but that’s a story for someone else to cover.
All we wanted was an honest discussion of the role that Darwinism has played in “scientific” racism.
Did Darwin hold views that today we judge to be racist? Yes, he did. He was a man of his times, as we all are. Yet he was taught taxidermy by John Edmondstone, a freed slave whom he greatly respected, opposed slavery and contributed to the campaign against it. Does that make him racist?
That his theory was enlisted by eugenicists or Nazis or communists is not his fault nor does it say anything about the soundness of his theory. To argue otherwise is to commit the fallacy of argumentum ad consquentiam
But as far as I can see, it’s only ID/C proponents who have adorned Darwin with a halo. The rest of us just see him as an archetypal scientist and his enduring legacy is not in statuary but in the evolving theory of evolution which he founded. In fact, from my reading of the man, if you had told him that tearing down statues or monuments to him would help to eliminate racism from human society, he would have had no objection whatsoever.
Besides, why are we bothering with 19th century racism when we clearly still have more than enough to go around today?
There isn’t any soundness in what Darwin spewed back in the 19th century. History will judge him as a lost and clueless soul
Lol Sev I can make that exact argument for 90% of the stuff you complain about in the Bible
Goerge Washington was a man of his time too and his statues are being ripped down
So precious Darwin is not going to get a free pass and if you does then this mess isn’t about race
So why did the Nazi use Darwinism
Because it was their views
Science is the authority on existence
The science supported their view
So they used it
But Darwin’s original theory supported inter Species competition, making it inherently racist, Not to mention the fact that it was created by a racist, there’s no coincidence there, science is only as good as the person doing it
If you Think it’s creationists and ID that give Darwin the halo you would be sadly mistaken, willfully ignorant, or you just do pay attention to new atheists
Watch Dawkins. He alone proves that wrong
Not to mention most of academia
Seversky, according to your beloved theory, not only do black lives not matter, but no lives matter,
Indeed, in Christianity every life is precious, whereas Seversky, in your atheistic worldview, every life is ‘chemical scum’;
I guess one could try to argue that Darwinian evolution is not inherently racist since each life is equally worthless, but that is to ignore the horror unleashed by the scientific racism that is integral to Darwin’s theory, and it is also to ignore Darwin’s own words,,, i.e. ““I do not know of a more striking instance of the comparative rate of increase of a civilized over a savage race.”,,,
Darwinists simply don’t like to hear the truth about Darwin. But the fact of the matter is that Darwin was indeed a racist, a misogynist and a eugenicist
Here are a few other people who, besides Seversky, think Darwin was the greatest thing since sliced bread,
The unmitigated horror unleashed on the world by these men who cherished Darwin would be hard to exaggerate,
How anyone could stand to be an apologist for such a horridly false worldview, as Darwinian evolution is, I have no idea, but alas Seversky, being the chemical scum that his worldview tells him that he is, somehow considers it his sacred duty, (if chemical scum can have a sacred duty), to defend such insane garbage as is inherent in his chosen worldview.
Verse:
I like this following quote:
Descent of Man, Darwin’s second book, made his view clear. Savage races should be exterminated by civilized races, which included Africans and Australian aborigines. He admired the way the United States handled their savage races by sending them to small tracts of land and not allowing them to mix with the civilized, which would sully the genetic descendants of those who followed.
Eugenics can be traced back to Darwin with a direct line. That is the theory that you can have a pure race by removal of genetic material. We are all mutts, some more than others. The closer to genetic purity one gets, the more genetic problems they have.
For anyone who believes Darwin did not support mass extinction of any savage race, do some research into what happened in Australia with the aborigines. Charles Darwin’s own words speak volumes to the idea of genocide of savage races.
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JVL,
the problem isn’t Mr Trump, he . . . warts and all . . . and other usual targets of the daily 24/7 media smear storm are just temporary roadblocks to an obviously anti-civilisation, utterly misanthropic, cultural form marxist agenda.
The Rubicon is the sudden push to defund and abolish normal policing (doubtless to be replaced by ideological anti-police, as in CDR Havana style plus NKVD plus gulags plus Red Guard house arrests and public humiliations with a dash of show trials with judicial murder to follow). That push cannot be taken back and it is a decisive sign of what we are up against.
Where, of course you conveniently overlooked public libraries trying to desensitise thus groom children through cross dressing story hour sessions and the attempt to do away with sex differentiated bathrooms that was temporarily blunted through mass outrage a few years back. Then, I happen to know of sex ed scandals in this region where kids were being indoctrinated with all sorts of perversities backed by radical groups with significant international backing, so the global perversity push is definitely there, the issue is, what will be there — or not — to be a bulwark against sliding into the Rom 1 sewer.
Nor, should we forgot the Red Guards rampaging in the streets, nor that such have shadowy backers. Of course, I carry no brief for a certain NY Contractor in chief, but you had better believe I will defend the most progressive (good sense) civilisation in history from those who don’t seem to realise or care that the predictable outcome of agendas in play if unchecked, is a slide into the vortex of tyranny.
The historic price to climb back out of that is rivers of blood and tears.
I also hold that the USA is already in 4th Gen Civil war . . . Red Guards on the rampage are a big clue for those who are blind to subtler signs . . . and that this election cycle and its aftermath will likely seriously ramp up the kinetic element. I think some who are pushing misanthropic agendas, agit prop and lawfare need to think again about what they are doing in an era where 6.5 mm Creedmoor rifles mean the danger zone when you stand in front of a mike to slander or when you pop a head out of an APC or when you step out of a limousine is now easily 1,000+ yards.
I strongly suggest that those who are playing with dangerous matches read the poem, When the Saxon begins to hate, as a warning. A slow boil is not a good sign. When a critical mass reaches the point where it feels it has nothing left to lose and so it needs to change the game to lose-lose, horrors now unimaginable would be unleashed. Please, let us step back from the edge of the abyss.
I suggest, you take a very careful look at the breakup of Yugoslavia and ask yourself, what is going to stop a slide into if we are lucky, Balkans lite.
Collectively, we have played the fool for years and now quite literally there is Hell to pay.
KF
BR, I don’t think Darwin wanted to commit genocide, he simply thought it inevitable along with wiping out the great apes. KF