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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by smhost on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @08:22AM (#21191418)
the term "eurocentric" normally isn't about NA vs EU rivalry, but rather about "european identity" in the white supremacist sense. (the caveat is that radical equality is also a distinctly european tradition, but still, this tradition doesn't seem to get included under the "eurocentric" label, for whatever reason)
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by oarabbus_ on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:05PM (#21194412)
No, the term "eurocentric" in this context means that for the Nobel prize, european scientists' accomplishments are considered "more worthy" than that of non-Europeans.

And thanks for bringing up how racial equality is a European tradition. How could we forget historical eurocentric bastions of equality, like the study of Phrenology and Kipling's "The White Man's Burden".

Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by sgift on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:36PM (#21194780)
ra-di-cal equality. not ra-ci-al equality.
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by oarabbus_ on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:02PM (#21195113)
I mean, that concept was considerably developed by Indian thinkers. The only eurocentricism here is that poster's personal bias.
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by ikhwan on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:42PM (#21194164)
Ironically, only a Eurocentric worldview could have one believing that "racial equality is a distinctly european tradition"

There were many celebrated anti-racist movement leaders across the world and in various time periods. The most well-known of these would be the Prophet Muhammad, who famously in one of his last sermons declared "Surely all of mankind – from the time of Adam until our time – are like the teeth of a comb (all equal to one another) and there is no greatness for an Arab over a non-Arab or a non-Arab over an Arab and no greatness for a red-skinned person over a black-skinned person or a black-skinned person over a red-skinned person, except due to one’s consciousness of God."

Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by smhost on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:11PM (#21194485)
i didn't say "racial equality", i meant the radical equality that flattens everything. i'm talking about the tradition that rejects prophets, rejects hierarchy, rejects teleology, etc.
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by AareyBaba on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:52AM (#21200135)
Who were the red-skinned people the Prophet was referring to in 600 AD ?
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 by vowelless on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:04PM (#21194399)
Your username is apt for this comment. Shukran akhi.