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[–] CannedShrooms 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
It's a crying shame what's happened to social science, really. Once upon a time, physical anthropologists asked "where do humans come from and what does it mean for human nature, and for that matter which of the tool-using great apes qualify as human?" and cultural anthropologists asked "what is it about white culture that has elevated whites to the top of the civilizational food chain when metrics of intelligence alone show them as only three or four standard deviations above the rest of the world?"; sociologists asked "in what ways can we improve the lives of everyone without infringing on the rights of individuals with institutional power, bearing in mind that institutions are just groups of individuals engaging in a kind of division of labor?" and criminologists asked "how can we best ensure that those individuals who would, in the absence of punishment, commit crimes, will not inflict themselves on the majority of honest and consequently law-abiding people?". Now it's "how can we further the narrative that all members of genus Homo are the same and that they all come from Negroids and only geography and exploitation by caucadoids explains the disparity in the success of those groups we insist against all evidence are not subspecies (or interbreedable species?)", "how can we demonize White culture to downplay its successes and fabricate positives for practically nonexistent original Negroid cultures?", "in what ways can we limit the successes of the highly skilled and able to match the failures of the unmotivated and unable?", and "how can we ensure that those who would commit offenses against society, given the chance to do so, remain able to do so, and how can we assure that any and all attempts to stop them result only in the infringement of rights of the honest and law-abiding?", respectively.