skews13
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White supremacist Americans - which is to say all Americans at that time - accepted that being able to force others, through slavery or capitalism, to work for you while you take advantage of your situation and skim off the wealth and leisure - that is the superior thing to do. And, since a lot of white people do that, being white must be superior. That is how Social Darwinists must argue. A rational human would wonder what's wrong with white people and if there's something beyond how they are raised, that makes them such assholes. A scientist would notice that, no, there isn't: being a wealthy powerful asshole is virtually entirely a matter of your starting condition not your breeding.
Another problem with the whole "breeding" thing is that Social Darwinists have to resolutely ignore the fact that there are a lot of princes that knocked up the chamber-maid and that child did not exhibit any monarchial disposition, and that there have been plenty of nobility who may think they spawned their heir but in fact it was the captain of the house-guard who did the nasty with the princess when her chinless, drooling, 60 year-old husband by arranged marriage was face-down drunk somewhere. There is a point to all of this, which is that modern understanding of group inheritance completely explodes Social Darwinism; only a jackass would believe in white supremacy, and many of them do.
Another problem with the whole "breeding" thing is that Social Darwinists have to resolutely ignore the fact that there are a lot of princes that knocked up the chamber-maid and that child did not exhibit any monarchial disposition, and that there have been plenty of nobility who may think they spawned their heir but in fact it was the captain of the house-guard who did the nasty with the princess when her chinless, drooling, 60 year-old husband by arranged marriage was face-down drunk somewhere. There is a point to all of this, which is that modern understanding of group inheritance completely explodes Social Darwinism; only a jackass would believe in white supremacy, and many of them do.
Pseudoscience: It's What Science Was
[I am reposting this 2021 posting I did over at Freethoughtblogs, because currently there’s a lot of discussion about Trump using racist tropes from Hitler. That is true, but where did Hitler get them? Hitler, it must be said, was not a great thinker...
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