At the week I wrote this post (auto-scheduled to be published months later), I noticed something that troubled me when I went to a major science news site. The site had a link to an article on an opinion site which has long been guilty of sneaky racism. Since I don't wish to be guilty of the same thing I am criticizing in this post (linking to racist articles and racist sites), I won't include any site names, article names, or URLs in this post.
The article link on the site was an example of a sneaky way to promote racism. The method involves having a prominent link to a rather innocent-looking article on a site that includes racist posts. Readers are thereby drawn to that site, where they may find other posts that promote racism, once the readers start looking around on the site they have been drawn to.
A few days later I found another example of what seemed like sneaky racism on the same major science news site. We had on that site an article describing in detail a scientific paper that seemed to be promoting racism in a sneaky, subtle way. The scientific paper took the approach of having an opinion poll in which professors were asked about their agreement with a small set of opinions, one of which was a racist claim about racial inferiority. The paper seemed to have an agenda of promoting the claim that a certain small minority of professors agreed with the racist claim. By talking up this paper, the major science news site thereby promoted (in a sneaky way) the very racist claim that people were being polled about.
Why should we not be terribly surprised at such conduct going on at a major science news site? The answer may be that many such sites serve largely to promote Darwinism, and claims or insinuations of racial inferiority have often occurred within Darwinist culture, appearing sporadically many times. You can understand why Darwinist culture so often has been associated with racism when you consider why under the assumptions of Darwinism the idea of inferior races is very useful.
Darwinism teaches the idea that humans accidentally evolved from some lower species that was like an ape or a chimpanzee. The gigantic gulf between animals and humans has always made such an idea seem preposterous to the person who adequately considers how great such a gulf is. The gulf between mere animals and humans who could build cities, design governments, make scientific discoveries and write great works of philosophy is like the oceanic gulf that separates the United States from Europe, or the gulf between our sun and Alpha Centauri.
If you are trying to maintain that such a gigantic gulf was crossed by mere accidents of nature such as random mutations, it is helpful if you can advance the idea of inferior humans, the idea of lesser races that are kind of a stepping stone between apes and humans. This is one reason why racism so often was embraced by Darwinists. By believing in inferior human races, they could say themselves: "It wasn't so great a gulf between apes and humans, because inferior races were kind of like stepping stones along the way."
This is one reason why you will find racism popping up again and again in Darwinist culture: because the idea of inferior human races is useful within the context of Darwinist ideology. To those who reject such an ideology, the misguided idea of inferior races is not useful.
People should study the abundant evidence telling us that the human mind cannot be the product of the brain, and the abundant evidence that the brain itself (and every other human organ and every type of human cell) cannot be explained by genes, which do not specify how to build humans or any of their organs or any type of human cell. People should also study the abundant evidence for paranormal psychical phenomena, suggesting so strongly that every human is a soul. People adequately making such studies will tend to scorn the illogical idea that some race of humans might be intellectually inferior because of genetic differences. Through deep study you can understand the very many reasons why evolution does not explain DNA, DNA does not explain bodies, and bodies do not explain minds. Once you have reached such insight, one of many benefits will be that you will help to immunize yourself against the virus of racism dressed up in genetic jargon, the type of thinking a major science news site seemed to recently promote.
Postscript: I see that weeks after writing this post, the same major science news site is again linking multiple times to the same racist web site. I also see on another day that the same major science news site is linking to a post on another site that approvingly cites without disapproval a blatantly racist quote from Darwin's The Descent of Man. The site claims to have the high purpose of educating us about genetics, although a close inspection shows the site is largely about promoting genetic fiddling and lobbying for the pesticide industry. The site includes a link to a racist neuroscientist article making false claims that the brains of certain people become "wired for aggression." Then on a later date the same major science news site I mentioned earlier has once again featured as one of its main articles an article promoting racism in an indirect way. It seems there still roams about the monster that is racism in science garb, with the help of the "science news" infosystem. But the monster is clever about donning disguises, so clever you may not notice when it sprays poison in your direction.
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