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I never thought I’d see craniometric “race science” return as a topic of even semi-serious discussion. To see “Germanic” skull-shape as an erotic device in political “journalism” is even more unexpected.
If you work for Quillette, this is what you’re helping to make mainstream.
If you work for Quillette, this is what you’re helping to make mainstream.
And yes, I know they publish lots of things other than Germanic skull fantasies and casual defences of craniometry-as-guide-to-race-and-IQ. That’s the point. Mixing casually with other topics is how scientific racism starts to seem normal.
No one thinks, hey, The Daily Stormer is really trying to normalize racism. It’s a fringe, openly racist project.
Racism becomes normal when it‘s not screaming from the fringe but speaking casually from publications pretending to be general in scope and neutral in position.
Racism becomes normal when it‘s not screaming from the fringe but speaking casually from publications pretending to be general in scope and neutral in position.
On a more positive note, the replies to the Quillette tweet QT'd above are wonderful. Strengthens my belief that laughter is the way to go with these clowns.
