Author Topic: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politics Scam  (Read 2557 times)

Zea_mays

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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politics Scam
« on: May 09, 2021, 02:25:27 am »
120 years ago scientists knew the "white race" was nonsense. Yet for some reason academia re-embraced it post-WWII.



Strictly speaking, these are not "races" in our sense of the word, but rather ancient ethnic clusters. Nevertheless, scientists went from this level of nuance to crudely asserting there was only a single "white race"... It was only within the past few decades that they have accepted the nuance that the so-called "white race" is really composed of three distinct ancient hunting, herding, and farming lineages--although they still haven't dropped the "white" label...


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"I discovered these old scientists had better arguments against ethno-tribalism than present-day biologists. Yet no mainstream biologists and sociologists seem to know about this"

Please present these somewhere when you have time.

I suppose to be precise, technically they were not engaging anti-ethnotribalist arguments, but certainly they were framing biology in such a manner that it benefits our arguments against WN arguments. Basically, it is how they say (1) there is no such thing as a "white race" and (2) assert that all ethnic clusters today are mixed with multiple "races"!.

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"It may smack of heresy to assert, in the face of the teaching of all our text-books on geography and history, that there is no single European or white race of men; and yet that is the plain truth of the matter. Science has advanced since Linnaeus' single type of Homo Europaeus albus was made one of the four great races of mankind. No continental group of human beings with greater diversities or extremes of physical type exists. That fact accounts in itself for much of advance in culture. We have already shown in the preceding chapters that entire communities of the tallest and shortest of men as well as the longest and broadest headed ones, are here to be found within the confines of Europe. Even in respect of the colour of the skin, hair, and eyes, responsible more than all else for the misnomer "white race," the greatest variations occur. To be sure, the several types are to-day all more or less blended together by the unifying influences of civilization; there are few sharp contrasts in Europe such as those between the  Eskimo and the American Indian, or the Malay and the Papuan in other parts of the world. We have been deceived by this in the past. It is high time for us to correct our ideas on the subject, especially in our school and college teaching.

Instead of a single European type there is indubitable evidence of at least three distinct races, each possessed of a history of its own, and each contributing something to the common product, population, as we see it to-day. If this be established it does away at one fell swoop with the most of the current mouthings about Aryans and pre-Aryans; and especially with such appellations as the "Caucasian" or the "Indo-Germanic" race."  -William Ripley, The Races of Europe (1899).


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"...let us bear in mind that in no other part of the world save modern America is such an amalgamation of various peoples to be found as in Europe. History, and archaeology long before history, show us a continual picture of tribes appearing and disappearing, crossing and recrossing in their migrations, assimilating, dividing, colonizing, conquering, or being absorbed. It follows from this, that, even if the environment were uniform, our pure types must be exceedingly rare. Experience proves that the vast majority of the population of this continent shows evidence of crossing, so that in general we can not expect that more than one third of the people will be marked by the simplest combination of traits." -William Ripley, The Races of Europe (1899).


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"In order to class peoples, nations, tribes, in a word, "ethnic groups," we ought to take into consideration linguistic differences, ethnic characters, and especially, in my opinion, geographical distribution. It is thus that I shall describe the different peoples in the subsequent chapters, while classing them geographically. But for a classification of "races" (using the word in the sense given to it in the introduction), it is only necessary to take into account physical characters. We must try to determine by the anthropological analysis of each of the ethnic groups the races which constitute it; then compare these races one with another, unite those which possess most similarities in common, and separate those which exhibit most dissimilarities.

On making these methodic groupings we arrive at a small number of races, combinations of which, in various proportions, are met with in the multitude of ethnic groups." -Joseph Deniker, The Races of Man (1900).


These quotes and others were posted here:
https://aryan-anthropology.blogspot.com/p/what-is-scientific-racism.html

It is also explained how the present-day False Left approach of attacking racism by attacking the biological data racists misappropriate is an utterly terrible approach. Instead of attacking racism through ETHICAL arguments, the False Left arguments are hinged completely on whether the empirical data are accurate or not! (Spoiler alert: most of that data is accurate and makes it look like racist arguments are superior to False Left anti-racist arguments!!!) Yet, 120 years ago, these old anthropologists already put WN arguments on shaky ground by directly addressing how the data doesn't even support WN arguments.

If present-day anthropologists had read this work, they could both use the data to go on the OFFENSIVE against racists, in addition to using more important ethical arguments against racism. Instead, they are so prejudiced against old work and data that they don't understand, that they attack data which actually helps their arguments... More criticism of the False Left approach can be found here:

https://aryan-anthropology.blogspot.com/p/revisiting-early-20th-century_93.html