Re: maafa= african holocaust
Well PP, to their credit, do not dispute the fact of their founders association with the field of eugenics or her interest in Darwin but carefully distance themselves from their founder's views on race and explain that she was "a product of her time".
Pretty much what Mormons also say when asked about their founder's explicitly racist views. Interestingly, Mormons also now do "good works" amongst disadvantaged communities in Third World countries.
You are right about these kinds of paradoxes. And history is complicated.
So a question now is, how much time needs to go by before we give an organization that was founded on racist principles a pass ?
Well PP, to their credit, do not dispute the fact of their founders association with the field of eugenics or her interest in Darwin but carefully distance themselves from their founder's views on race and explain that she was "a product of her time".
Pretty much what Mormons also say when asked about their founder's explicitly racist views. Interestingly, Mormons also now do "good works" amongst disadvantaged communities in Third World countries.
You are right about these kinds of paradoxes. And history is complicated.
So a question now is, how much time needs to go by before we give an organization that was founded on racist principles a pass ?
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