User:Darth Tiktaalik/notes on racism and evolution

This page is meant to gather resources to refute creationist arguments that racism has it's roots in and is caused by the acceptance of evolution or that religion is a cure for bigotry.

Confederacy
- Benjamin Palmer, civil war era minister

- Southern Presbyterian of S.C

–A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union.

Charles Darwin in his own words
19 April 1865, letter to Asa Gray

Khristianity
The Klan requires that initiates state a belief in "the Christian religion" during initiation

Thomas Robb, national director of the knights of the klu klux klan took offense that Expelled:_No_Intelligence_Allowed accused white supremacists of accepting evolution

An interviewed Grand dragon calls jewish people "Christ killing jews", referencing the concept of jewish deicide as justification for his anti-Semitism.

The church of former day racists
Mormonism founder Joseph Smith cites multiple bible passages in his defense of black people being enslaved in a letter sent to Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate editor Olivier Cowdery and published on April of 1836 Note that Darwin published origins in November 1859, a full 23 years and 7 months after this letter.

2 nephi 5 originally had "white and delightsome" people getting cursed with a skin of blackness: "wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.". Black men would be denied the mormon priesthood until 1978 on religious grounds.

2nd president of the LDS church Brigham Young preached death for interracial couples:

Nazis
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a proponent of scientific racism whose work would inform the nazi policies on race. He was also a critic of Darwinian evolution who mocked both evolution and Darwin himself in his writings. Of universal common descent be wrote:

Anti evolution attitudes specifically made it's way into nazi propaganda and censorship guidelines. The nazis promoted the notorious antisemitic hoax The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion which contains the claim that "Darwinism" was a Jewish plot to poison the minds of non-jews.

In a nazi list of banned books you find "6. Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism and Monism".

Similarly banned are "All writings that ridicule, belittle or besmirch the Christian religion and its institution, faith in God"

unsorted
A correlation between bigoted attitudes and rejection of evolution

In Johnson v M'intosh the supreme court states that "The potentates of the old world found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they made ample compensation to the inhabitants of the new, by bestowing on them civilization and Christianity", justifying colonization by the spread of Christianity. Further, the court held that European Christians could "discover" and lay claim to already inhabited land.

Josiah Clark Nott and George Robins Gliddon went so far as to claim that the human races were seperately created by god in contrast to even other christian creationists who hold Adam and Eve as common ancestors.

Some creationists justify racism/slavery using the curse of ham. The Joseph Smith letter noted in the LDS section incorporates this as part of his argument

Godless engineer takes on the claims of one RichieFromBoston, an anti evolution conspiracy nutter who pines for the days when people "stayed within their own race" and "italians married italians"

general creationist antisemitism
Lara Logan of fox nation thinks that Darwin was paid to come up with evolution by the Rothschilds. , a dogwhistle version of the protocols of Zion claim mentioned above in the nazi section

Kent Hovind has pushed antisemitic books in the past. Reportedly Michael Marcavage tried to defend Hovind from accusations of antisemitism in a moment that itself was a mask off moment of accusing the ACLU of being a Jewish conspiracy against Christians though the primary source for this doesn't seem to exist anymore

Israel Shamir expresses a low opinion of "Darwinists" in his review of the world turned upside down