Re: Social Darwinism; was: So Long Judge Moore, We'll Miss You

"ambrose searle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Dick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > ambrose searle wrote in talk.origins
> >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maff) wrote in message news:
> > >> But Bible Belt fundamentalists, Confederates and the Klan didn't
> > >> beleive in Darwin or evolution. THey wre murdering and torturing
> > >> people even before Darwin.
> > >
> > > So what? How does that change the fact that Darwin was also a racist?
> >
> > How racist was he, especially when compared to others of his society?
> > Why condemn someone's thinking when it reflected the then current
societal
> > attidudes?
>
> He was not only a racist, but he promoted the idea that racial
> superiority was a product of natural selection. Thus, those who lived
> in colder climates (like white Northern Europeans) were forced by
> natural selection to evolve into more creative races that had the
> ingenuity to build fires and houses, while those living closer to the
> Equator (like Black Africans) remained inferior in their mental
> capacity.

??? i guess you missed the part where he discussed
the urban poor in the UK, or maybe you think they
were 'Black Africans'.

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> This is the "science" that ultimately led to Hitler's project of an
> Aryan super-race, via natural selection.
>
> Searle
>