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Rugian rank	Thu Jun 14 15:35:58 2018 Albert Einstein's 'shocking' racism revealed by publication of private diaries Chris Baynes 4 hours ago The publication of Albert Einstein’s personal diaries has revealed his racist attitudes towards foreigners he encountered on his travels. In the private writings, the renowned physicist describes the Chinese as an “industrious, filthy, obtuse people”. The private writings were published last week by Princeton University Press, which said they “reveal Einstein’s stereotyping of members of various nations and raise questions about his attitudes on race". In one passage, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist describes the Chinese are “a peculiar herd-like nation… often more like automatons than people”, adding: “Even the children are spiritless and look lethargic.” After writing of their “abundance of offspring” and “fecundity”, he goes on to say: “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.” In his preface to The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein, [Ze'ev] Rosenkranz says the diaries exhibit a “quirky style” and “acerbic quips” but also contain some “troublesome entries”. “I began to ask myself: how could this humanist icon be the author of such passages?” Mr Rosenkranz writes. He adds it “seems clear that Einstein has bought - to some extent - into the perceived threat of ‘the yellow peril’,” referring to the racist colonial trope that the people of East Asia were a threat to the western world. By contrast to his prejudice against the Chinese, Einstein speaks positively of the Japanese, who he praises as “unostentatious, decent, altogether very appealing”. http://www...-zeev-rosenkranz-a8397226.html Einstein confirmed for genius.
hood rank	Thu Jun 14 15:38:26 2018 "describes the Chinese are “a peculiar herd-like nation" This describes TC very well.
Aeros rank	Thu Jun 14 15:59:25 2018 Time to unperson Einstein I guess.
CHINA RULZ USA SUCKS rank	Thu Jun 14 16:02:47 2018 "often more like automatons than people” LIKE!
Cthulhu rank	Thu Jun 14 17:40:54 2018 Why is this shocking?
tumbleweed rank	Thu Jun 14 17:47:35 2018 sounds accurate... though he left out them being evil
murder rank	Thu Jun 14 17:55:26 2018 And there not being one fucking condom in the entire nation!
tumbleweed rank	Thu Jun 14 18:32:37 2018 here they are abusing geese for no reason http://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9svBX_1528891246 may they all join Justin Trudeau in a special place in hell
Dukhat rank	Thu Jun 14 19:04:27 2018 How is Einstein a racist when Japanese and Chinese people are the same race? What a fucking bullshit headline.
Sam Adams rank	Thu Jun 14 19:06:32 2018 Guess the left should start screaming about removing einstein from history.
Cthulhu rank	Thu Jun 14 19:19:23 2018 We can now discount general relativity and special relativity as tools of the patriarchy since a bigoted heteronormative caucasian male cisgender created the theories.
Cherub Cow rank	Fri Jun 15 06:41:59 2018 "sounds accurate..." +1.. what is problem?
smart dude rank	Fri Jun 15 07:35:03 2018 Time to tear down some Einstein statues and light cars on fire, i guess. Not surprised really. Einstein was already known to be a bigot. After all, E=mc^2 is a sexist equation.
Cthulhu rank	Fri Jun 15 08:20:26 2018 Is that because women cant comprehend it?
earthpig rank	Fri Jun 15 08:52:16 2018 Race is not culture. Both are social constructs. Culture is a part of who you are - shared norms, and the like. Race is just what others think you are by looking at you, in no small part.
smart dude rank	Fri Jun 15 08:55:52 2018 No kidding. It's like it's impossible to judge the culture of a society without it making you a racist. Did it ever occur to these idiots that Einstein had nothing against Asian people and merely was disgusted by Chinese culture at the time? He even praised the Japanese. What is racist about what Einstein wrote?
Asgard rank	Fri Jun 15 13:05:37 2018 It's also impossible to judge a person from 1920 writing in 1920's standards. Everyone was a bigot then.
Asgard rank	Fri Jun 15 13:07:38 2018 Also- "Whaaaaaa jewwwwsss.... Boycott physics! Nuke nukes! " - Paramounted, 6/15/18
The Children rank	Fri Jun 15 16:28:58 2018 then he is another sick white man livin in an age of arrogance but currently witnessin the fall of the white mans arrogance. buhahaha karma is real.
smart dude rank	Fri Jun 15 16:51:31 2018 I live in Taiwan. I've criticized the Chinese a fair bit for their censorship of Google, Twitter, Facebook, NYT, etc. I guess that makes me a racist too, even though the Taiwanese are predominantly the same ethnic group (i.e. Han) and I don't have the same criticisms of them. I will continue to criticize Chinese culture, too. And I don't give a fuck if someone says I'm racist for it. It has nothing to do with race. If I criticized Soviet Russia, nobody would give a shit because they are all white people. But because China is "Asian" suddenly it's racist? Bullshit.
smart dude rank	Fri Jun 15 16:54:58 2018 Also Chinese tourists to Taiwan (and everywhere, but they are quite common here) are complete shitbags. Cutting in line, failing to observe basic rules. Whatever. More racism. I guess Taiwanese people (i.e. Han Chinese) are racist against themselves? It's so stupid. Critiquing a country is not remotely the same as critiquing a race.
Nimatzo rank	Fri Jun 15 17:17:13 2018 So when we say we must decolonize science, the tool of oppression that the west has used, you know it includes Einstein and his racist ideas about gravity. Tsk tsk tsk.
werewolf dictator rank	Fri Jun 15 17:22:14 2018 “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races.” - einstein in article saying einstein isn’t talking about race is like saying hitler wasn’t talking about race because “aryans and jews are not a race”
murder rank	Fri Jun 15 19:37:30 2018 "then he is another sick white man livin in an age of arrogance but currently witnessin the fall of the white mans arrogance. buhahaha karma is real." Who wants to tell him? :o)
Cthulhu rank	Fri Jun 15 21:50:44 2018 then he is another sick white man livin in an age of arrogance but currently witnessin the fall of the white mans arrogance.  buhahaha karma is real' He's a little bit too dead too witness anything
Sam Adams rank	Fri Jun 15 21:52:10 2018 "We can now discount general relativity and special relativity as tools of the patriarchy since a bigoted heteronormative caucasian male cisgender created the theories." Lol
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