
EP. 08 The Classics
Uncancelled History
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Aristotle Father of Scientific Racism
In 2018 somebody called Matthew Sears who is apparently an associate professor of classics and ancient history at the University of New Brunswick. He wrote a piece in the Washington Post in 2018 titled Aristotle father of scientific racism. The author also described Aristotle as the granddaddy of all racial theorists. And among the charges that this professor made was that one of the charges against Aristotle is that Charles Murray the author of the bell curve once named him as his favourite philosopher. That's a charge against a man who lived before Jesus Christ. Not a thousand years ago. Wow. Anachronistic guilt by association is pretty. How do you defend yourself against that? You've got to make sure that you don't
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