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Part One: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism

Behind the Bastards

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Phrenology and the Birth of Slavery

Robert Evans: I feel like if aliens show up and they're the kind of aliens we can beat in a fight That might really deal the deathblood eracism once we have another intelligent species to be racist against. He says phrenology had a very one-sided impact on the birth of colonialism because after all if science had proved that some people were meant to Be ruled and others to rule what argument could you make against the British Empire scooping up every last sliver of land? They could find now when we come back on Thursday. We're going to trace how this quirky little skull measuring science helped cause one of the worst genocides in the 20th century Two actually justified

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