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Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia
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#32After your death all of your life's browser history, every facebook/youtube/reddit/HN/myspace/etc comment and submission you ever wrote, every photo you ever took, every off-hand remark you ever made in the presence of a smartphone with facebook installed .. will be published for all of the world to read and judge. Better get that road rage under wraps!
> Better get that road rage under wraps! After my death I could not care less...
After my death nobody else will care either
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#33I think people in those days had a very exaggerated idea of the scale of genetic differences between people of different ethic groups. Nowadays we know such differences are a rounding error and that looking at differences in genomes between individuals, those attributable to ethnicity are generally a minority. Back then, this wasn't known. EDIT - I had a bit of a laugh at the quote about the Chinese supplanting other…
Does knowledge of genome proximity help you to find women of other races more attractive?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those statements boil down to "I think Chinese people are ugly". Do men have a moral obligation to find women of all races beautiful?
I can say "I don't find most Chinese women attractive". Or I can say "Chinese women are so ugly, I cannot understand how people manage to reproduce in China". Do you see the difference? One statement is not racist and the other is.
So you are saying racism is defined by the degree of some dislike vs. collectivist categorizations?
Otherwise, they do seem to be the same.
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#35This is one of those examples of holding a man born in the 19th century to the standards of the 21st. I'm pretty sure lots of the things we think, say, and do will be seen as very problematic in the 22nd century.
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#36How is this relevant to HN?
Because Einstein
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#37The more they pull this historical muckracking crap, the less people are going to care when real racism is happening right in front of them.
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#38This is disgusting. I mean, publication of private diaries is disgusting.
Fuck you, Rosenkranz. I see why Hamlet did not like you that much.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those statements boil down to "I think Chinese people are ugly". Do men have a moral obligation to find women of all races beautiful?
I can say "I don't find most Chinese women attractive". Or I can say "Chinese women are so ugly, I cannot understand how people manage to reproduce in China". Do you see the difference? One statement is not racist and the other is.
Actually both are not racist. Both are subjective statements.
One needs not explicitly add "I, personally" to his personal correspondence.
"Chinese women are so ugly, I cannot understand how people manage to reproduce in China" should be read as: "I find Chinese women so ugly, that I cannot understand how people manage to reproduce in China".
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#40Sounds more like "Chinese culture" phobia to me. He said good things about Japanese people.