tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506870823292198189.post5718976614159783164..comments2023-09-16T09:31:23.577-04:00Comments on Please be patient, I am evolving as fast as I can!: Glenn Beck-erhead is wrong -- what a shock!Ted Herrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194189686075222808noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506870823292198189.post-11669438292059094822010-08-29T00:06:22.975-04:002010-08-29T00:06:22.975-04:00Anon,
I don't think the word racism has chan...Anon,<br /> I don't think the word racism has changed. What you are describing is a lack of tolerance and understanding that seems to become more prevalent as we let ourselves get more and more polarized. No one seems to be willing to accept other points of view and your example is one response to it. We see it in our politicians, we see it in the media, we see it in our churches. <br /><br />Back to my original post, Glenn Beck, and his ilk, prey on that polarization, they use it to further inflame us. To drive wedges between individuals and use it for their own benefit. He bears no responsibility, but he certainly benefits from it.Ted Herrlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03194189686075222808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506870823292198189.post-89236306748128688572010-08-27T17:16:08.788-04:002010-08-27T17:16:08.788-04:00People all though history have used other people w...People all though history have used other people works to justify what they doing. <br />One of the problems now (IMHO) is that the word racisim has change. <br />It is more of over all label. <br />You don't agree with me, you must be a racist or a bigot or fill in the blank (wife husband).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506870823292198189.post-24593649336336936072010-08-26T22:21:30.989-04:002010-08-26T22:21:30.989-04:00Anonymous,
So someone used Darwin's work as an...Anonymous,<br />So someone used Darwin's work as an excuse for their own behavior. They used evolution as justification for their own actions. <br /> <br />To use a crude analogy, and one I don't particularly like, but it seems apt here -- when someone shoots another person, do you blame the shooter or the gun manufacturer? Actually if you blamed the person who explained how thermodynamics worked would be a better analogy because that is what Darwin did.<br /> <br />Evolutionary theory is an explanation of a naturally occurring phenomena, life and the diversity of life on this planet. The evidence that shows most species that existed on this planet have already gone extinct long before man's appearance. The incredibly geographical diversity that shows so many different organisms in one place and nothing like them in others. It is an explanation! <br /> <br />Do we blame Darwin for pointing it out to us? Of course not! He was answering questions that had been asked for centuries! If you want to blame 'Margaret' Sanger, then blame her. If you want to blame Adolf Hitler, blame him. Blaming the man whose work offered us the first actual view into how biology works and whose work has been mis-used as justification for atrocities in completely wrong. Do you think Sanger or Hitler needed Darwin? No! Eugenics, Ethnic Cleansing, or whatever you want to call it today has been around well before Darwin and had other excuses. How many atrocities have been done in the name of religion? People who act may look for excuses, but that is all they are. No one should have the right to euthanize or contraception-ize (is that a word?) without the consent of the individuals involved. Any government that grant anyone that right should be euthanized itself. Let's ask Milosivic? Oh wait, he was found guilty of War Crimes, wasn't he?<br /> <br />I recall a political cartoon from years ago. It was a simple picture of a rustic village in Europe. The balloon read something along the lines of "There, there Mrs. Beethoven. You really don't need another child. And besides at your age the child might be prone to deafness. Better never to get pregnant."<br /> <br />People, like Glenn Beck, who make these pronouncements are either lying through ignorance or they are deliberately lying to mislead people. I'll leave it up to you to consider why they would do such a thing. But the bottom line is you are being lied to. Why does Darwin's own work show that not only was he not a racist, but to use his work to support such activities would be criminal! <br /> <br />BTW, what the hell is Modern Racism? Nice turn of phrase that has absolutely no meaning. My wife tried to tell me it was racism based on some scientific idea. That's BS. Science does not have racist theories. There is nothing in science to identify one group as superior or inferior to another. The best science can do is catalog those differences. Can you identify an Irishman, African American, or Asian from a distance? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Science can tell you why, but that in no way implies one is superior to another. In my mind that requires a religion or a pundit.<br /> <br />Darwin was not the father of 'Modern' racism. He did not plant the seeds that caused slavery and discrimination. He told a story about the nature of the world around us. He gave us tools to understand. It's up to us in how we use them.Ted Herrlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03194189686075222808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506870823292198189.post-3648605464997936992010-08-26T22:10:25.440-04:002010-08-26T22:10:25.440-04:00The southern Ed. defended property rights. The sla...The southern Ed. defended property rights. The slave being property the owner having the rights to said property. It came down to money. <br />Darwin theory, used by certain groups, made it so you could use it against groups or even the mixing of people. We have all heard the mongelizion of people. We can't have that it would weaken the race look at Darwin's Theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506870823292198189.post-71040301486481891572010-08-26T12:47:29.819-04:002010-08-26T12:47:29.819-04:00So abolitionism led to racism? Makes sense. To Bec...So abolitionism led to racism? Makes sense. To Beck , anyway.<br /><br />Anon -<br />Modern racism has it roots in the age old practice of dehumanizing the other. There are some good examples in the Bible. You only have to read some of the southern editorials prior to the Civil War justifying slavery. These ideas have nothing to do with Darwin.scriptohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899049404620738944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506870823292198189.post-1491986767872284752010-08-26T12:06:56.274-04:002010-08-26T12:06:56.274-04:00Glen Beck stated that Darwin was the FATHER of mod...Glen Beck stated that Darwin was the FATHER of modren racism. His theories were used to justify the racism of others. Do we blame the father for the stupid children? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. <br />Racism prior to Darwin was against other classes of people i.e. black, brown, white. That was true racism. After Darwin's theory people use it against groups of people. They could have been groups of people with all races. As is the poor. Carol Sanger is an example of this. If we limit the amount of poor through birth contol it will be better for all. The enviromental groups today are using it now. "The earth can not support all the people that are here now we need to get rid of some of them. But who should go? So how do we decide. It can't be us we are the best and the brightest, we know what is best for you. We need to see about the "weaker members of the world" ( yes Darwin use society a little license was needed)<br />Socialism is another example. This idea has been around along time but Marx took that idea a whole lot further. Hence USSR and and a few other places. It has fail everwhere it has been tried but they keep trying to show it can work. It didn't work in this place because it didn't have us the best and the brightest. Marx is the FATHER of Marxism and MODREN socialism because the best and the brightest used it for their stupidity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com