26 days ago19 points(+0/-0/+19Score on mirror)4 children
Franz Boas (boasian anthropology) is the main figure behind the early 20th century, anti-Darwinian transformation of American social sciences and the ideological framework for the last century of "all races are equal" propaganda. Before I go any further, just let me just highlight that there is an entire chapter on this topic in Culture of Critique (Chapter 2 - The Boasian school of anthropology and the decline of Darwinism in the social sciences) that is definitely worth reading. For those who are interested but would prefer a more concise summary on the topic, I've pulled a few of the more relevant quotes from the book...
- "Boas’ influence upon American social scientists in matters of race can hardly be exaggerated.” Boas engaged in a
“life-long assault on the idea that race was a primary source of the differences to be found in the mental or social capabilities of human groups. He accomplished his mission largely through his ceaseless, almost relentless articulation of the concept of culture”...“Boas, almost single-handedly, developed in America the concept of culture, which, like a powerful solvent, would in time expunge race from the literature of social science” Boas did not arrive at the position from a disinterested, scientific inquiry into a vexed if controversial question. There is no doubt that he had a deep interest in collecting evidence and designing arguments that would rebut or refute an ideological outlook—racism—which he considered restrictive upon individuals and undesirable for society... there is a persistent interest in pressing his social values upon the profession and the public"
- "Franz Boas’s famous study purporting to show that skull shape changed as a result of immigration from Europe to America was a very effective propaganda weapon in the cause of the anti-racialists. Indeed, it was intended as propaganda. Based on their reanalysis of Boas’s data, physical anthropologists Corey Sparks and Richard Jantz do not accuse Boas of scientific fraud, but they do find that his data do not show any significant environmental effects on cranial form as a result of immigration They also claim that Boas may well have been motivated by a
desire to end racialist views in anthropology: While Boas never stated explicitly that he had based any conclusions on
anything but the data themselves, it is obvious that he had a personal agenda in the displacement of the eugenics movement in the United States. In order to do this, any differences observed between European- and U.S.-born individuals will be used to its fullest extent to prove his point."
- "Boas was greatly motivated by the immigration issue as it occurred early in the century. Carl Degler notes that Boas’s professional correspondence “reveals that an important motive behind his famous head-measuring project in 1910 was his strong personal interest in keeping the United States diverse in population.” The study, whose conclusions were placed into the Congressional Record by Representative Emanuel Celler during the debate on immigration restriction (Cong. Rec., April 8, 1924, 5915–5916), concluded that the environmental differences consequent to immigration caused differences in head shape"
- "As a further indication of Boas’s ideological commitment to the immigration issue, Degler makes the following comment regarding one of Boas’s environmentalist explanations for mental differences between immigrant and native children: “Why Boas chose to advance such an adhoc interpretation is hard to understand until one recognizes his desire to explain in a favorable way the apparent mental backwardness of the immigrant children”
- "Boasian anthropology was enlisted in post–World War II propaganda efforts distributed and promoted by the AJCommittee, the AJCongress, and the ADL, as in the film Brotherhood of Man, which depicted all human groups as having equal abilities."
- "By the mid 20th century, the Boasian revolution in anthropology had triumphed, and theorists who believed that race was important for explaining human behavior became fringe figures."
26 days ago12 points(+0/-0/+12Score on mirror)1 child
It's so tiresome.
1. Every single time
2. Boas, Interesting. Because that shithead judge who keeps doing gay shit is Boasberg.
3. It's incredible how consequential just one of them can be and has been so many times. This fucker on race, Freud on psychology, others on vaccines, on immigration (Celler), on monetary policy, etc etc. It would be impressive if it weren't so evil and destructive. How? There are tens of thousands of people on academia, how do they somehow get their message and their bend so widely propagated? Have you talked to them? They are not particularly convincing or charming.
I read this book called Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and it talks about snap judgement. A huge portion of the book talks about psychology. And many of the super prominent people in that field are Jews. They tend to understand us before we understand them. They make it their life's mission to "get" people.
26 days ago11 points(+0/-0/+11Score on mirror)2 children
>It's incredible how consequential just one of them can be and has been so many times.
It's never "just one".
>distributed and promoted by the AJCommittee, the AJCongress, and the ADL, as in the film Brotherhood of Man
I remember reading recently that Freud was promoted by B'nai B'rith, as another example. It's *always* like this.
Every Jew can rely on every other Jew to support his efforts at undermining the host nation, to the point where conspiracy is totally unnecessary.
Jews buy from Jews, lend money no interest to Jews, hire Jews, promote the works of Jews, all while telling their host nation "race means nothing; treat everyone as an equal". They don't need to plan anything; if they see a book written by a fellow Jew, they automatically recommend it to colleagues, write raving reviews to newspapers and magazines, and publicly attack any criticism as "antisemetic" etc.
They also explicitely try to work in field with high cultural influence: media, academia, law, finance, politics. They don't invent, don't build or maintain infrastructure, don't cook or clean, don't take care of the sick, don't farm, basically nothing useful that requires humility.
This doesn't really work for Whites, because we are the host, but we should take the collorary stance: don't do business with foreigners living in your country, only lend them money at punitive interest, denigrate and criticise any non-White media, especially if it invloves race mixing, call out and ridicule Whites who consume non-White media etc.
They did a study that proved that Jewish academics cite much more other Jewish academics.
The importance of an academic is based on how many times they are cited, so they help each other.
[Their power is racism](https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/16bP7kKAzg/racism-is-power/c)
> He accomplished his mission largely through his ceaseless, almost relentless articulation of the concept of culture”...“Boas, almost single-handedly, developed in America the concept of culture, which, like a powerful solvent, would in time expunge race from the literature of social science
So true. Even those mainstream people who want to stop mass immigration always talk about "culture", implying that other cultures do not integrate with ours.
But this is a weak argument because the leftists can simply say that immigrants will be integrated over time.
"Whites are oppressors, non-Whites are victims. But race doesn't exist yet I love racial diversity and I celebrate our differences because we're all the same so let's destroy diversity by mixing together... but only in White countries."
- "Boas’ influence upon American social scientists in matters of race can hardly be exaggerated.” Boas engaged in a
“life-long assault on the idea that race was a primary source of the differences to be found in the mental or social capabilities of human groups. He accomplished his mission largely through his ceaseless, almost relentless articulation of the concept of culture”...“Boas, almost single-handedly, developed in America the concept of culture, which, like a powerful solvent, would in time expunge race from the literature of social science” Boas did not arrive at the position from a disinterested, scientific inquiry into a vexed if controversial question. There is no doubt that he had a deep interest in collecting evidence and designing arguments that would rebut or refute an ideological outlook—racism—which he considered restrictive upon individuals and undesirable for society... there is a persistent interest in pressing his social values upon the profession and the public"
- "Franz Boas’s famous study purporting to show that skull shape changed as a result of immigration from Europe to America was a very effective propaganda weapon in the cause of the anti-racialists. Indeed, it was intended as propaganda. Based on their reanalysis of Boas’s data, physical anthropologists Corey Sparks and Richard Jantz do not accuse Boas of scientific fraud, but they do find that his data do not show any significant environmental effects on cranial form as a result of immigration They also claim that Boas may well have been motivated by a
desire to end racialist views in anthropology: While Boas never stated explicitly that he had based any conclusions on
anything but the data themselves, it is obvious that he had a personal agenda in the displacement of the eugenics movement in the United States. In order to do this, any differences observed between European- and U.S.-born individuals will be used to its fullest extent to prove his point."
- "Boas was greatly motivated by the immigration issue as it occurred early in the century. Carl Degler notes that Boas’s professional correspondence “reveals that an important motive behind his famous head-measuring project in 1910 was his strong personal interest in keeping the United States diverse in population.” The study, whose conclusions were placed into the Congressional Record by Representative Emanuel Celler during the debate on immigration restriction (Cong. Rec., April 8, 1924, 5915–5916), concluded that the environmental differences consequent to immigration caused differences in head shape"
- "As a further indication of Boas’s ideological commitment to the immigration issue, Degler makes the following comment regarding one of Boas’s environmentalist explanations for mental differences between immigrant and native children: “Why Boas chose to advance such an adhoc interpretation is hard to understand until one recognizes his desire to explain in a favorable way the apparent mental backwardness of the immigrant children”
- "Boasian anthropology was enlisted in post–World War II propaganda efforts distributed and promoted by the AJCommittee, the AJCongress, and the ADL, as in the film Brotherhood of Man, which depicted all human groups as having equal abilities."
- "By the mid 20th century, the Boasian revolution in anthropology had triumphed, and theorists who believed that race was important for explaining human behavior became fringe figures."
1. Every single time
2. Boas, Interesting. Because that shithead judge who keeps doing gay shit is Boasberg.
3. It's incredible how consequential just one of them can be and has been so many times. This fucker on race, Freud on psychology, others on vaccines, on immigration (Celler), on monetary policy, etc etc. It would be impressive if it weren't so evil and destructive. How? There are tens of thousands of people on academia, how do they somehow get their message and their bend so widely propagated? Have you talked to them? They are not particularly convincing or charming.
I read this book called Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and it talks about snap judgement. A huge portion of the book talks about psychology. And many of the super prominent people in that field are Jews. They tend to understand us before we understand them. They make it their life's mission to "get" people.
It's never "just one".
>distributed and promoted by the AJCommittee, the AJCongress, and the ADL, as in the film Brotherhood of Man
I remember reading recently that Freud was promoted by B'nai B'rith, as another example. It's *always* like this.
Every Jew can rely on every other Jew to support his efforts at undermining the host nation, to the point where conspiracy is totally unnecessary.
Jews buy from Jews, lend money no interest to Jews, hire Jews, promote the works of Jews, all while telling their host nation "race means nothing; treat everyone as an equal". They don't need to plan anything; if they see a book written by a fellow Jew, they automatically recommend it to colleagues, write raving reviews to newspapers and magazines, and publicly attack any criticism as "antisemetic" etc.
They also explicitely try to work in field with high cultural influence: media, academia, law, finance, politics. They don't invent, don't build or maintain infrastructure, don't cook or clean, don't take care of the sick, don't farm, basically nothing useful that requires humility.
This doesn't really work for Whites, because we are the host, but we should take the collorary stance: don't do business with foreigners living in your country, only lend them money at punitive interest, denigrate and criticise any non-White media, especially if it invloves race mixing, call out and ridicule Whites who consume non-White media etc.
The importance of an academic is based on how many times they are cited, so they help each other.
[Their power is racism](https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/16bP7kKAzg/racism-is-power/c)
Status: Rebutted
So true. Even those mainstream people who want to stop mass immigration always talk about "culture", implying that other cultures do not integrate with ours.
But this is a weak argument because the leftists can simply say that immigrants will be integrated over time.