Part One: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism

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Part One: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
For some people, racism isn’t enough. They aren’t satisfied with just hating someone because of their appearance. They need a scientific justification for their bigotry. In episode 36, Robert is joined by podcast pioneer Josh Clark (Stuff You Should Know, The End of the World) to discuss the long, long chain of scientific racism.
Original Air Date: December 4, 2018
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@rorylynch1203 6 ай бұрын

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz wrote something to the effect of, “racism does not produce settler colonial violence but rather settler colonial violence necessitates racism.”

@berrim26 3 ай бұрын

Is that who Dunbar's Number is named for?

@berrim26 3 ай бұрын

Wikipedia says no, that was someone named Robin Dunbar.

@portmantologist 7 ай бұрын

The phrase I've settled on for racism, especially scientific racism, is colonizer's conscience. Start with the decision to do something horrible to a group of people for your own benefit, and then work backwards to explain why it was okay that you did and continue to do that horrible thing. The development of the modern concept of racism arguably demonstrates that people have always understood on an instinctual level that the Atlantic slave trade and the genocide of natives were wrong, especially when you're living in a nation founded on the principle of individual liberty.

@MagdasGascar 2 ай бұрын

Like Israelis and the spread of islamophobia and dehumanization of Arabs?

@munchkingod6 2 ай бұрын

I think it’s also important to view it from the lens of social control and maintaining hierarchies of power. As colonialism spread the British mastered weaponized racism and factionalism to fracture and control local populations. Turn clan against clan, and family against family. Ethnic minorities were lifted up and given privileges to fight for the colonizers. Weaponizing race was a cornerstone strategy of empire. In the pre-civil war period the rich plantation owners use of slavery was terrible for poor white people, and the owners would never be able to maintain control on their own. They needed poor white folks to side with them against their own interests and racism was that wedge. As long as the poor white was promised whiteness he could be convinced to fight and die for a cause that was directly against his own self interest. Later on as Unions pushed for better wages and working conditions racism was weaponized again to get black workers to scab and then take the blame when strikes failed. Racism has always been a cornerstone of control.

@relag4171 4 ай бұрын

I see a phrenologist to get my hats fitted sometimes. His costumer service could use a little work, he keeps saying I have the flattened crown of an unsteady plainsman, but damned if he doesn't fit a good hat.

@EfiniX 8 ай бұрын

In which Robert accidentally outlines the plot of The Watchmen @44:38

@thecountalucard666 2 ай бұрын

Sadly Arthur Conan Doyle seemed to think phrenology was valid science when writing The Hound of the Baskervilles.

@98JSB 3 ай бұрын

It's interesting going back and hearing professional ad pivots and introductions. Before this I listened Robert begin a podcast with the word "hitler"

@jenniferklein1707 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm going back and listening to older episodes too. It's a shame this episode didn't even have an ad for Raytheon.

@susansprague7304 8 ай бұрын

I prefer retro-phrenology ... whereby one can make adjustments to a client's personality with a series of carefully graduated skull hammers.

@wwcyfd22 4 ай бұрын

That's what Robert refers to as "a brickin'"

@martincann5052 2 ай бұрын

I see you're a fellow man of culture. Have a mug of scumble on me.

@dogearflopper7011 4 ай бұрын

Perfect guest for this

@templarw20 7 ай бұрын

Going to link this video next time some grognard tries to argue “evil” races in D&D isn’t massively problematic.

@yensid4294 21 күн бұрын

Really glad the scientific method moved beyond Aristotlean mind experiments & philosophical rhetoric. Yeeesh.

@trifontrifonov4297 3 ай бұрын

We should always be careful of attributing modern beliefs to people from Ancient history. Aristotle was a racist and wrong about so many things, but he was also very intelligent and right about many other thing. People parroted gis wrong conclusions for so long because they came packaged with some many basics of modern science and knowledge. Also we don't actually know if he said everything we attribute to him. You see we have no direct source of his thought, the documents we possess have been viewed for a long time now as the badly written notes of one of his students. His actual writing has been lost to history, but people who had read it at the time describe it as almost poetic. What we have written about Aristotle is long winded, badly spelled and frankly stinks of cliff notes. I mean he was most likely still a POS, but we just cant know. Same for Spartacus. Our popular culture has created this image of the righteous slave throwing away his chains and fighting for "FREEDOM", but this is us applying modern beliefs to a blank slate. We simply we don't know that he fought the Romans becuse he hates slavery. He was Thracian. They were fascinating people. Great poets, goldsmiths and builders....also the one group of people the Romans did not fuck with. Heck Spartacus was not captured and enslaved by the Romans. He fougth other Thracians in a civil conflict, lost and was sold to the Romans as a way to send his away. So yeah, maybe he was one of the first abolitionists in history. Maybe. Or he was just a man of his time that hated and fought Rome for other reasons and build an army or escaped slaves, not due to some deep held beliefs, but due to sheer practicality. After all it does not take a lot of work to convince the downcast of society to rebel. My whole point is that, both of them were part of societies that are completely alien to us and our modern sensibilities. Whats more we lack direct sources for who they were as people. All we have left are their deed and guesses of why they did what they did. Those guesses could be spot on (Aristotle was 99% pro slavery and anti-women if only because of the society he was born in), but that guess work is bad history and this podcast has proven again and again that they are better sources of accurate history than this.