"Eugenics" was trending last week, and it was all thanks to one tweet. Source
Avengers: Infinity War,
Creativity,
Culture & Ethics,
human beings,
human exceptionalism,
Human Origins,
ID The Future,
Julian Simon,
labor,
Labor Day,
Marvel Cinematic Universe,
materialism,
movies,
Podcast,
Rachel Adams,
resources,
Thanos
For Labor Day weekend, we celebrate the human creative capacity, and analyze a blockbuster movie. Source
African Americans,
Amazon Prime,
And Still We Rise,
Angela King,
apes,
Bronx Zoo,
Charles H. Wright Museum,
Culture & Ethics,
Detroit,
Discovery Institute,
documentary,
eugenics,
Evolution,
forced sterilization,
Human Zoos,
humans,
John West,
missing links,
Monkey House,
New York City,
Ota Benga,
Planned Parenthood,
Racism,
Saartjie Baartman,
Social Darwinism,
Valerie Sweeney Prince,
Wayne State University
The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Source
animism,
atheists,
creator,
Culture & Ethics,
David Klinghoffer,
Declaration of Independence,
elites,
equality,
ethics,
Evolution,
freedom,
Hammurabi,
Homo sapiens,
human rights,
monotheism,
morality,
myths,
polytheism,
religion,
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,
social order,
Thomas Jefferson,
truth,
Voltaire,
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Source
A New Birth of Freedom,
Adam Smith,
Africans,
Alexander H. Stephens,
alt-right,
Charles Darwin,
Civil War,
Confederacy,
Confederate flag,
Cornerstone Speech,
Culture & Ethics,
Darwinian evolution,
dreamscape,
eugenics,
Evolution,
Galileo,
genocide,
Harry Jaffa,
Human Zoos,
John West,
March for Science,
NASCAR,
Nextdoor,
Oregon,
Portland,
Psalms,
Racism,
religion,
Seattle,
Southerners,
The Biology of the Second Reich,
The Descent of Man,
vacation homes,
William Harvey
Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Source
"survival of the fittest",
Africa,
age restriction,
algorithms,
censorship,
Charles Darwin,
Christianity,
Culture & Ethics,
Darwinism,
documentary,
Evolution,
genocide,
German ideology,
German Southwest Africa,
Herero people,
imperialism,
Namibia,
Politicians,
pop culture,
preachers,
Racism,
religious racism,
scientific racism,
Second Reich,
Social Darwinism,
The Biology of the Second Reich,
World War I,
YouTube videos
My documentary only tells one part of the story of racism, and only a part of the story of Social Darwinism's influence on Western imperialism. Source
Africans,
baboons,
ballot boxes,
Benjamin Tillman,
black inferiority,
Caucasians,
Civil War,
Culture & Ethics,
Democratic Party,
Ellenton riot,
Evolution,
evolutionary racism,
historical figures,
lynching,
missing link,
monkeys,
political rights,
Racism,
scientific racism,
South Carolina,
statues,
stealing elections,
U.S. Senate,
United States
Benjamin Tillman was a monster. He publicly defended lynchings. He drew on evolutionary racism to preach black inferiority. Source
Adrian Desmond,
Alfred Russel Wallace,
Charles Darwin,
Culture,
Culture & Ethics,
Darwinian theory,
Descent of Man,
Evolution,
gender,
history,
James Moore,
morality,
prejudices,
Racism,
Richard Owen,
The College Fix,
University of Sheffield,
women
The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.” Source
Abraham Joshua Heschel,
Abraham Lincoln,
Adrian Desmond,
Africa,
Allison Hopper,
anti-racism,
Charles Darwin,
Culture & Ethics,
Darwin’s Sacred Cause,
Descent of Man,
Edinburgh,
Emma Darwin,
Erasmus Darwin,
Evolution,
Great Emancipator,
Harriet Martineau,
Human Origins,
James Moore,
N-word,
Racism,
slavery,
slaves,
Victorian England
It is certainly startling to see the N-word cropping up in Darwin’s letters, but this is not the only place. Source
Alberta tar sands,
crime,
Culture & Ethics,
Deep Ecology,
Dior Fall Sow,
ecocide,
Environmentalism,
genocide,
nature rights,
Nazis,
Philippe Sands,
pollution,
Pope Francis,
The Guardian,
The Hague,
United Nations,
University College London,
war crimes
If either or both of these radical proposals become law, human thriving and economic prosperity will be brought to a screeching halt. Source