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Re:Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driv... by hammock on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:36PM (#38222678)
Are you trying to discredit Emerson by suggesting he is a racist? I read the source(1) and it seems he is arguing strongly against racial determination

(1)https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/emerson/4957107.0005.001/1:6.4?...

Re:Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driv... by RC_ITR on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:39PM (#38222710)
You read a book called 'English Traits' where Emerson tries to grapple with the reasons why British people are the best in the world and you got an anti-racism message from it?
Re:Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driv... by hammock on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:44PM (#38222774)
He’s not a ethnic denialist but seems to paint a multifaceted picture of nature + nurture, the influence of genetics, trade, culture, religion, geography and much more, placed in the context of a conversation where racialism is the dominant model among his contemporaries