The Logic of Racism

[leftpawlogic]

 During America's Progressive Era, a period of great social reform in the early 1900's, there was an ironic prejudice against immigrants. To deal with their immigrant problem, congress hired an anthropologist to study the effects of race on mental capacity (with the explicit expectation that foreigners should be found inferior and give the

Comments

[wolfboi]

perhaps they should have hired a phrenologist instead. Pseudo-science for pseudo-thinkers.

[leftpawlogic]

Indeed. Perhaps the results would have been more to their liking, though end the end, that doesn't really matter.

[hyper_r_us]

How would we measure them by the size of their feet? Like, would people with bigger feet get more or less rights? Is it better to have big feet or small feet? And, what defines having big feet? Like, is a big foot for a woman 9 and up? And a man? 10 or 11 up? This requires pondering.

[leftpawlogic]

not really. it's about as vague as race.