For hundreds of years people have energetically misused science to justify both their racist feelings and systemic racism. And other people have showed up to disingenuously defend that in many ways, including your evasive, just-asking-questions routine.
There is no reason to think that activity has stopped. And indeed, the shift in the last 50 years to make overt racism moderately less socially acceptable suggests that we might see an increase in the amount of covert racism. So I feel no obligation to take the latest iteration any more seriously than I would the 1850s version. It's the same deal with perpetual motion machines or multi-level marketing schemes or religious door-knockers: the next one to come along could finally be the one that isn't horseshit. But that's not the way to bet.
If you'd like to make the argument that your personal favorite scientific racism is better science than the scientific racism favored by other racists, feel free to take a swing at it. But just looking over your comment history, I'm not going to give it a lot of weight.
Just evaluate evidence and methodology. Historical factors are irrelevant. You obviously have a preconceived Truth that could never be disproven no matter what was empirically shown, but that's not science.
Nah. I don't have The Truth, just some pretty good heuristics on how I spend my time. I've all ready looked into enough religion to know that I don't have to give any time to godbotherers. I've already looked at enough perpetual motion machines to know that I don't have to disprove each one. And I don't have to hear out each racist on why this time he's rilly rilly rite about how the people he hated all along are scientifically bad.
Is it possible that one day somebody will come along with a real perpetual motion machine and I'll miss out for a while? Sure. But there are other people who enjoy evaluating that stuff enough that I'll eventually hear about it. And it's the same deal here. I don't get my theology from evangelical Christians, and I don't get my bioanthropology from evangelical racists.
For hundreds of years people have energetically misused science to justify both their racist feelings and systemic racism. And other people have showed up to disingenuously defend that in many ways, including your evasive, just-asking-questions routine.
There is no reason to think that activity has stopped. And indeed, the shift in the last 50 years to make overt racism moderately less socially acceptable suggests that we might see an increase in the amount of covert racism. So I feel no obligation to take the latest iteration any more seriously than I would the 1850s version. It's the same deal with perpetual motion machines or multi-level marketing schemes or religious door-knockers: the next one to come along could finally be the one that isn't horseshit. But that's not the way to bet.
If you'd like to make the argument that your personal favorite scientific racism is better science than the scientific racism favored by other racists, feel free to take a swing at it. But just looking over your comment history, I'm not going to give it a lot of weight.