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   On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 5:36:40 PM UTC-4, General Zod wrote:   
   > On Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 2:56:57 PM UTC-4, Susan Cohen wrote:    
   > > * [ with special thanks to Peter J Ross]    
   > >    
   > > Psychologist J. Philippe Rushton once observed that science moves    
   > > forward, continuing to gather data and refine its theories, but with    
   > > one important exception. A century ago, there was a robust Darwinian    
   > > science of race differences in a variety of traits, from differences    
   > > in skull shape and cranial capacity, to differences in intelligence    
   > > and behavioral restraint. However, this young science was nipped in    
   > > the bud, but not because it was displaced by a new, powerful, and    
   > > empirically based theory. Rather, the demise of racial science came    
   > > about because of intellectual movements dominated by ethnic Jews and    
   > > tightly linked to the political left.    
   > >    
   > > This was a case of science being replaced by ideology, an    
   > > ideology designed to oppose the idea that Europeans were in any way    
   > > unique or superior to other human groups; an ideology designed to    
   > > advance the interests of ethnic outsiders with their own strong sense    
   > > of biological uniqueness and superiority. Ultimately, it was an    
   > > ideology that rationalized the decline of Europeans and their culture    
   > > that we see all around us today. The new ideology decreed that humans    
   > > were infinitely malleable creatures of their culture and eventually    
   > > became defined by the view that race does not exist at all.    
   > >    
   > > Franz Boas, the high priest of the new cult, was a strongly    
   > > identified Jew and committed leftist. His famous study purporting to    
   > > show that skull shape changed as a result of immigration from Europe    
   > > to America was very effective propaganda weapon in the cause of    
   > > eradicating racial science. Indeed, it was intended as propaganda.    
   > > Based on their reanalysis of Boas’s data, physical anthropologists    
   > > Corey Sparks and Richard Jantz do not accuse Boas of scientific fraud,    
   > > but they do find that his data do not show any significant    
   > > environmental effects on cranial form as a result of immigration. They    
   > > also claim that Boas may well have been motivated by a desire to    
   > > expunge racialist views from academic anthropology:    
   > >    
   > > While Boas never stated explicitly that he had based any    
   > > conclusions on anything but the data themselves, it is obvious that he    
   > > had a personal agenda in the displacement of the eugenics movement in    
   > > the United States. In order to do this, any differences observed    
   > > between European- and U.S.-born individuals will be used to its    
   > > fullest extent to prove his point.    
   > >    
   > > As a result of the massive success of this onslaught, the science    
   > > of race differences languished, whatever truths it had uncovered were    
   > > forgotten. In Raciology, Vladimir Avdeyev resurrects the vast    
   > > tradition of research on the physical anthropology and psychology of    
   > > race differences. His book is an exhaustive summary of research in    
   > > this field from the eighteenth century to the present. It includes a    
   > > great many summaries of the research of individual scientists, many of    
   > > whom have been virtually forgotten. But it is far more than a    
   > > compendium of research. It also vigorously defends the idea that the    
   > > problem of race is the nerve center of world history. It is intended    
   > > therefore to influence how people think about race in the context of    
   > > history and current events.    
   > >    
   > > Several themes recur throughout Raciology. Race is overwhelmingly    
   > > the result of biological inheritance, not cultural programming.    
   > > Beginning with Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, this body of theory    
   > > and research proposed that the biologically based racial    
   > > characteristics of Whites have led them to be originators of superior    
   > > cultures. The White race evolved in the north of Europe and spread    
   > > south and east to be the main force behind the ancient cultures of    
   > > Greece, Rome, Egypt, India, Persia, and the Hittites. The ancestral    
   > > type of the White race, called the Nordic race originally by Joseph    
   > > Deniker, is characterized by blond hair, blue eyes, light skin, tall    
   > > stature, dolichocephalic (long-headed) skull, and a brain with a    
   > > well developed prefrontal area (the area of the brain associated with    
   > > intelligence, impulse control, and decision making). Houston Stewart    
   > > Chamberlain may be considered paradigmatic of a theorist who proposed    
   > > that northern Europeans are a superior people:    
   > >    
   > > All outstanding peoples that appeared starting in the 6th century    
   > > in the role of true deciders of the fate of humanity as founders of    
   > > nations and creators of new thinking and original art, were namely of    
   > > German origin. The creations of the Arabs stand out for their short    
   > > duration; the Mongols only destroyed but they created nothing; the    
   > > ingenious Italians of the Middle Ages were all émigrés, or of the    
   > > north which was saturated with Lombard, Gothic, or Frankish blood, or    
   > > they were Germano-Hellenes of the south; in Spain, the creative    
   > > element was the Visigoths. The awakening of the Germans forms the    
   > > foundation of European history, for their worldwide historical    
   > > significance as founders of a completely new civilization and a    
   > > completely new culture.    
   > >    
   > > However, despite the great flowering of culture emanating from    
   > > Europe and despite the knowledge that Europeans and their culture    
   > > dominated the planet, there is also a pessimism that pervades this    
   > > literature, the idea that White racial elites tend to become degraded    
   > > over historical time because of admixture with other races. It was    
   > > common among these thinkers to assert that the depletion of the Nordic    
   > > racial stratum accounts for the decline of Greece, Rome, the Hindus,    
   > > the Persians, and other Nordic civilizations. For example, Ludwig    
   > > Woltmann: The blonde element of the people defines its cultural    
   > > worthiness, and the fall of great cultures is explained by the dying    
   > > out of this element. Eugen Fischer: In Greece, the death of the    
   > > families of fully-vested citizens and the admission of the descendants    
      
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