Will the Neo-Inquisition of Cultural Relativists and Racial Egalitarians ever admit that they were wrong?

By Mike Smith

10th of June 2014

I have just finished reading a new book by Nicholas Wade called, “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human history.”

You can download a free pdf copy here

Nicholas Wade is a well known scientific journalist and critic of cultural Anthropology. He once said that Cultural Anthropologists should get educated in genetics.

That is basically the basis of his book…that the beliefs of cultural relativists and racial egalitarians stating that “Race does not exists”, “Race is not biologic” and that “Race is a social construct” has no validity when one studies the latest genetic findings in the Human Genome Project

Wade proves that race is indeed biologic. He further proves that human evolution has been frequent and recent and is still happening.

Race as a taboo subject

How did it come about that only the bravest of academics today dare to state the truth that race is biological and not a social construct as the main stream academic world believes? How did Multiculturalism become the modern day orthodoxy and goes almost unchallenged? How did it come about that the mere word “Race” has become racist and has been banned from political and scientific vocabulary?

Five years ago I wrote about the start of Racial Egalitarianism and Cultural Relativism and mentioned that it was Franz Boas who one night was rescued by an Eskimo in a snow storm that brought about these rubbish beliefs. Rubbish, because it is just a theory without a shred of proof.

Franz Boas: How an Eskimo caused the demise of Western Civilization

Wade elaborates on it in his book (Chapter 4: The Human Experiment).

He mentions modern day “Boasians” who calls anybody with a belief other than “Race is a social construct” to flat earth believers. Those who do indeed believe in the biological nature of race make it off as insignificant.

On page 68 and 69 we read about Ashley Montagu (born as Israel Ehrenberg) , a student of Franz Boaz.

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The politically driven distortion of scientific views about race can be traced to a sustained campaign from the 1950s onward by the anthropologist Ashley Montagu, who sought to make the word race taboo, at least when referring to people. Montagu, who was Jewish, grew up in the East End district of London, where he He began to promote Boas’s ideas with more zeal than their author. Montagu developed passionate views on the evils of race. “Race is the witchcraft, the demonology of our time, the means by which we exorcise the imagined emoniacal powers among us,” he wrote. “It is the contemporary myth, humankind’s most dangerous myth, America’s Original Sin.”

In the postwar years, with the horror of the Holocaust weighing on people’s minds, Montagu found ready acceptance of his views. These were prominent in the influential UNESCO statement on race, first issued in 1950, which he helped draft. He believed that imperialism, racism and anti-Semitism were driven by notions of race and could be undermined by showing that races did not exist. However much one may sympathize with Montagu’s motives, it is perhaps simplistic to believe that an evil can be eliminated by banning the words that conceptualize it. But suppression of the word was Montagu’s goal, and to a remarkable extent he succeeded.

“The very word race is itself racist,” he wrote in his book Man’sMost Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy o f R a ce.8 Many scholars who understood human races very well began to drop the use of the term rather than risk being ostracized as racists. In a survey taken in 1987, only 50% of physical anthropologists (researchers who deal with human bones) agreed that human races exist, and among social anthropologists (who deal with people) just 2 9% did so.

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As can be seen, Ashley Montagu was also the main author of the 1950’s UNESCO Statement on Race

Further debunking of the arguments against race can be read on page 117 under the title “Arguments against the existence of Race”.

There you can read the theories against race by amongst others Jared Diamond and Richard Lewontin incidentally both from Jewish decent just like Franz Boas and Ashley Montagu.

Is stating the truth racist?

The word “racist” has become the swear word to silence any objective discussion on race. In such an environment, truth cannot be found.

I am afraid that no matter how much evidence the Human Genome Project produces or how much people like Nicholas Wade write about it, the truth about race will not be acknowledged anytime soon simply, because people have a natural inertia to accepting truth and rejecting their preconceived or old ideas even when their own observations show that they should do so.

The world before science

Author Robert Lomas in his book “The Invisible College” wrote about this kind of inertia prior to the creation of the “Royal Society”, the world’s first scientific body.

Up until the 16th century people in Europe were still very much superstitious and believed in magic to explain most things.

During the rule of the “Long Parliament” (1645-7) in England, Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, executed 200 old women for practicing witchcraft.

Magic and miracles were a part of everyday life. In England at the time at least a 100 elderly women a year were burned alive on suspicion that they were causing disease by casting the “evil eye”.

Queen Elizabeth I had a court magician, John Dee who spoke to angels and apparently created the Elixir of life. He outlived her, so obviously the Elixir didn’t work so well and Dee died shortly after King James I fired him, yet another victim of the Elixir of Life. However, John Dee was a very competent mathematician and astronomer.

Europe was still in the grips of the Churches control on education. The medieval universities in Europe were established when scholars returned from Islamic learning centers like Cordoba, Toledo, Seville and Granada with books they have translated from Arabic.

The heritage of learning passes to Muslim civilization

However, the church controlled all the universities and set the agenda for education.

You can see this kind of fanatical control in how they treated Galileo’s famous gravity experiment of 15 89 (said to have been conducted from the leaning tower of Pisa).

His results showed that bodies of different weights fell at the same speed, but his findings were logically disproved by the negative thinkers of the Inquisition on the grounds of dogma and without any supporting evidence.

Before the seventeenth century, people believed that the earth was the centre of the universe, that the sun, the stars and the planets moved around it, that the stars were made from imperishable celestial fire; that they were arrayed throughout the universe on great transparent spheres, etc…

The basis of these beliefs comes from Aristotle’s views expressed in two books, “Physics” and “On heavens”.

Aristotle are often praised for the accuracy of his observations, however as we have seen, the expert is not always right.

Aristotle insisted that women have fewer teeth than men. He married twice, but never looked into the mouths of his wives. He also believed that children are healthier if they are conceived when the wind is in the north. He also claimed that the bite of a pregnant shrew is dangerous to horses; that insomniac elephants can be sent to sleep by rubbing their shoulders with salt, olive oil and warm water; that a man bitten by a mad dog will not go mad, but any other animal will.

In 1633 Galileo (if not the inventor of the astronomical telescope certainly its first professional user) fell foul of the church. He was summoned to Rome and forced by the Inquisition to recant his statement that the sun is the centre of the solar system and the earth revolves around it.

What makes this so astounding is that the Inquisitors general of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church KNEW that Galileo’s heliocentric model was right. They knew it from their own observatories.

The Church needs to predict Easter very accurately; (the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the spring equinox). Their own observations showed that the sun does not travel in a perfect circle around the earth; that the earth travels in an ellipse around the sun.

Using theology to disprove experimental observation is something we find difficult to understand today, however this is exactly what liberals and cultural relativists do when it comes to the topic of “Race”. They are no different to the Inquisition and their fanatical Blind Faith who hate competitors.

It was only when Sir Robert Moray found the Royal Society along with other scientific thinkers such as Robert Boyle and Sir Christopher Wren that western civilization saw a rapid movement away from superstition into the direction of the scientific method of observation, experimentation and analysis. The world moved from Sir Isaac Newton to Prof Stephen Hawking in the last 300 years.

Imagine if Stephen Hawking proposed his Big Bang Theory to the Catholic Inquisition, questioning the need of a “God” in creation? How long would he have survived?

Now you might not agree with Hawking, but you have to admit that a society where he can be free to postulate his theories is far better than the time of the Inquisition. We would today never tolerate the Inquisition. Why then does society tolerate the “Neo-Inquisition” of “Racial Egalitarians” and “Cultural Relativists”?

Over the years we have seen many scientists and academics shouted down and their careers destroyed by the Neo- Inquisition. Now, after the evidence of the Human Genome Project, after the book by Nicholas Wade, they still do not accept or acknowledge that they were wrong. They will go on the attack.

It was only in 1992 that the Catholic Church apologized to Galileo .350 years after his death. How long will it be before Cultural Relativists and Racial Egalitarians apologize to us?