Everyone's was. The idea of racial equality hadn't arrived yet.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @_Kabaiel_
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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Replying to @scarface_83 @_Kabaiel_
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @scarface_83
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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Replying to @_Kabaiel_ @HPluckrose
while I am not trying to refute the idea, I think there's some missing nuance in those quoteshttp://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2009/03/01/myth-7-darwin-thought-that-aus/ …
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Replying to @scarface_83 @_Kabaiel_
I agree with all that. He 'concedes to the racism' of his peers but was enlightened for his time. That's the nuance. He couldn't know better
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Replying to @HPluckrose @_Kabaiel_
I think this is where I stand as well, at least for the moment. Neither devil nor saint and a product of his time
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Replying to @scarface_83 @_Kabaiel_
Id even go with saint. A great man & a good man with some faulty assumptions to work with. He set us on the road to being much less wrong.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @_Kabaiel_
would you care to expand on the saintliness, I definitely see the greatness of both the man and the impact of his work
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Replying to @scarface_83 @_Kabaiel_
Well, mostly that but he's also really likeable. If you read him, he's so clearly an ethical, honourable, kind person.
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I mean, I don't think he was saintly but I don't think he was somewhere in the middle of devil or Saint either. He was a really good man.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @_Kabaiel_
oh, I didn't mean to imply it was a toss up, I definitely put him towards the 'saintly' end of the spectrum
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