Posted on 06/13/2018 4:19:06 PM PDT by RedMonqey
The publication of Albert Einstein’s private diaries detailing his tour of Asia in the 1920s reveals the theoretical physicist and humanitarian icon’s racist attitudes to the people he met on his travels, particularly the Chinese. Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once described racism as “a disease of white people” describes the “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” he observes. He notes how the “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” After earlier writing of the “abundance of offspring” and the “fecundity” of the Chinese, 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.” Ze’ev Rosenkranz, senior editor and assistant director of the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology, said: “I think a lot of comments strike us as pretty unpleasant – what he says about the Chinese in particular. “They’re kind of in contrast to the public image of the great humanitarian icon. I think it’s quite a shock to read those and contrast them with his more public statements. They’re more off guard, he didn’t intend them for publication.”
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And by the way, everybody is racist, so git ovah yo bad self.
This is not racism, just observation.
If you were to write down just factual observations of a central african you would be accufsed of racism. Record just factual observation, no supposition, no glossifed social commentary.
You can start with the fact that the average central african has between 20 to 40 active sexual partners. It gets worse from there on.
Don’t take offense. I like Asians just fine.
I was replying at approximately the level of dialogue offered by the usually sage Einstein.
btt
By today's idiotic "standards", the truth is considered insensitive and offensive.
It seems to me that Einstein was using the vernacular of the time to accurately describe what he saw. Clearly (to the Left) that’s racist.
I've traveled through China and Thailand a number of times and it's quite common to see men squatting like this all over. Women as well, but not nearly as much.
I just figured they're used to it since they use squat toilets. It seems to me to be related to how modernized or rural a place is. It was not common in the modern places. I didn't see it in Japan although I never have been to Rural Japan.
If otherwise, free pass.
I thought that was J. Robert Oppenheimer.
And he wants a saucer of milk. :)
+1.
LOL
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