Word: racistly
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...recent racist violence in Boston caused by genes for territoriality and xenophobia? Or is it the result of an organized hate campaign by self-serving Boston and national politicians? Is the history of the KKK and its resurgence on a California marine base an expression of these same genes...
...explanations which Wilson's Sociobiology provides for racism, fascism, and war are unscientific at best and dangerous at worst. The inhuman acts carried out by racists in Germany, South Africa, and the U.S. have been answered by heroic anti-racist and anti-fascist resistance. Where there were Nazis, there were partisans; where there is apartheid, there is massive rebellion, where there has been the Klan, ROAR, and the war in Indochina there has been the civil rights movement, CAR, and the anti-war movement...
Sociobiology threatens to revive in new forms an ideology which occupied a prominent position in U.S. colleges and universities from the betrayal of Reconstruction after the Civil War until World War II. Social Darwinism justified the class and racist inequalities of U.S. society as products of natural selection. During the period of vigorously expanding capitalism, Social Darwinism was invoked to justify the government's laissez-faire policy toward the robber barons. With the growth of a militant, immigrant-led working class movement, however, Social Darwinism was modified into an interventionist ideology of immigration restriction, eugenics, imperialism and anti-communism...
...recent years thousands of Harvard students and many faculty and staff have taken stands against Harvard's involvement with war and racism. They opposed ROTC programs and other forms of Harvard complicity with the war in Indochina. They opposed racist admissions, hiring and curriculum policies. The revival and spread of doctrines which can be used to encourage racism and preparation for war is potentially more dangerous than the issues which produced the conflicts of the 1960s...
Most Americans will not support government policies and actions which promote racism and war, unless much of the anti-racist and anti-war sentiment of the 1960s is undone through the influence of a new wave of academic and popular reactionary ideologies. By trying to counter the growing influence of sociobiology and similar doctrines in various academic disciplines, we not only preserve scientific integrity but our hopes for a future free of racism...