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The Forbidden Experiment

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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The Origins of Racism

In 16 55, isaac lapierre published pre adomite. In it he argued that adam wasn't the first person and a population of gentiles must have existed before him. The serpent seed theory was taken up by the cuklux glan, the christian identity movement, the american notse party and the arian nations. It's clear that for most supporters, the issue of racialism was just raceism. Denying all people a common humanity justified chattel slavery, the seizing of land, the taking of resources and genicide. But the invention of race is a much larger topic for another time. By the eighteenth century, leading scientific thought was that

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