This is certainly a non-sequitur , I would say if anything white nationalism has decreased, not increased, so much is arbitrary and anecdote
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The same thing was said about racism and Evolution given Darwin's perspective on Africans and most prevailing at the time.
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Except Darwin's perspective was blatantly racist during that time period, and certainly viewed Africans as lesser.
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Everyone's was. The idea of racial equality hadn't arrived yet.
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If either of you could provide a reference for his supposed racism I'd appreciate it, seems counter to this https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/01/racism-science-human-genomes-darwin …
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He was progressive by the standards of his time. Racist by ours. This is balanced.http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/did-charles-darwin-believe-in-racial-inequality-1519874.html …
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Quotes, while I agree with Helen, he did believed it science and natural selection, not racism. The best thing to do is to read first-hand.pic.twitter.com/J4AKU2is3Y
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Yes. We need to read people in their context & not try to judge them from ours. Anyone saying this now would be appallingly racist.
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Do you consider race-based identity politics as completely synonymous w/ racism? Are they the same thing, or intersected on a Venn diagram?
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It's an aspect of racism. A behaviour stemming from it.
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Historical perspective is a beautiful thing, rare, but beautiful.
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And even if dogma happened to lead to better behavior in the past (it didn't), that wouldn't justify dogmatism in the future.
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We should be promoting reason along with good reasons, not faith (a.k.a. the embrace of intuition/personal bias).
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It does no say whether those hung up on identity politics are the Christians or the non-believers. White religious right = increasing.
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Great question.
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