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Oh my, what's the play here?
Quite tempted, I am, to lift Trotsky's temp ban. He'd have the balls to say what he's been trained to think, and call Einstein "fucking stupid".
No compromises.
Oh my, what's the play here?
Quite tempted, I am, to lift Trotsky's temp ban. He'd have the balls to say what he's been trained to think, and call Einstein "fucking stupid".
No compromises.
ahhh, ok, I thought this was something recent. yeah, he was a pretty xenophobic dude.
More culture shock in the pre interweb days.
...I guess he wasn't impressed by Asian chicks.
Our resident terrorist taking a shot at a famous jew? I'm shocked!
Glad I don't have a diary after spending memorial week in South Beach Miami.
Same with Gandhi too. In some of his early writings he had some not so pleasant things to say about Africans but later in life saw them and other colonized peoples as fundamentally united in the struggle against imperialism.Yeah, this was a pre-WW2 German guy going to underdeveloped places for the first time and experiencing culture shock. Ignorant? Of course. Calling children "spiritless" is pretty ignorant.
But by the 1940s he was spending time in black neighborhoods in segregated New Jersey, hanging out with random black people around town, and calling racism a "disease." He said he felt a connection to them because of how the Jews were treated in Germany.
I think we pigeonhole people too easily, especially from different eras. Even the way people talk about Malcom X often seems to completely ignore his drastic change of opinion later in his life. People have bad ideas, and if they are smart, they overcome those bad ideas and develop better ideas. That's what happened with Malcom X, and that's what happened with Einstein.
Same with Gandhi too. In some of his early writings he had some not so pleasant things to say about Africans but later in life saw them and other colonized peoples as fundamentally united in the struggle against imperialism.
Racist.Racism as a "disease of white people"
Does he include himself / Jews in the "White people" category? Cause while the US gov. and society as a whole visually treat Jews as White, Jews do see themselves as separate.The Jewish scientist described racism as "a disease of white people" in a 1946 speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania - the first university in the US to award degrees to black people.
Oh my, what's the play here?
Quite tempted, I am, to lift Trotsky's temp ban. He'd have the balls to say what he's been trained to think, and call Einstein "fucking stupid".
No compromises.
He joined the NAACP in Princeton and championed for civil rights for African Americans... sooooo is he racist..? i'd say no.. not later in his life in the US for sure.