Thursday, June 14, 2018
Theorist as always
Headline on BBC:
Einstein's travel diaries reveal physicist's racism
I read the article expecting to find the standard crap, as in James Watson or James Damore. Simple factual statements, based on accurate observation of reality, must be defined as "racist" and "sexist".
Nope, I was wrong. Einstein's comments were NOT factual.
He also describes his time in Colombo in Ceylon, writing of the people: "They live in great filth and considerable stench down on the ground, do little, and need little." ... He describes Chinese children as "spiritless and obtuse", and calls it "a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races". In other entries he calls China "a peculiar herd-like nation," and "more like automatons than people", claiming there is "little difference" between Chinese men and women, and questioning how the men are "incapable of defending themselves" from female "fatal attraction".This is pure prejudice. Einstein was parroting fashionable preconceptions, not observing reality. Later, after getting a job with Deepstate, he parroted Deepstate's fashionable preconceptions: ...described racism as "a disease of white people" in a 1946 speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Good old 1946. All of this is perfectly consistent. Einstein's mind was totally filled with fashionable delusions, which are called "theories" in the world of science. He never paid the slightest attention to plain old reality.
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