Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by runako on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:14PM
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When did scientific racism die out? Mainstream US publications are still publishing op-eds that assume scientific racism is a legitimate topic. This has been going on since the country was founded. I'm not sure how effective a disinfectant sunlight is if it takes centuries to work.
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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by jshevek on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:05AM
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The body of opinions designated as scientific racism has changed over time. Giving the parent the benefit of the doubt, I took their statement to be referencing traditional scientific racism, such as that which rested on craniometry and other bizarre pseudoscience.
Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:34PM
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> When did scientific racism die out? Mainstream US publications are still publishing op-eds that assume scientific racism is a legitimate topic.
I encourage you to review some of the early to mid 20th-century publications on the topic. "Science" backing segregation. Americans pontificating about whether Hitler was right or that blacks should be sterilized, and then actually doing it. Doctors. In hospitals. "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" from the US Supreme Court.
If you think we're in the same state now as we were then, you don't know where we were then.
> I'm not sure how effective a disinfectant sunlight is if it takes centuries to work.
You would prefer the alternative where anything contradicting the then-prevailing doctrine of racial supremacy and eugenics was censored? How long does the truth take to get out in that case? And what happens in the meantime?