Respected scientists published absurd race-based claims during World War I

Evidence

What was left to racism was merely to postulate a systematic, and genetically reproduced distribution of such material attributes of human organism as bore responsibility for characterological, moral, aesthetic or political traits. Even this job, however, had already been done for them by respectable and justly respected pioneers of science, seldom if ever listed among the luminaries of racism. Observing sine ira et studio the reality as they found it, they could hardly miss the tangible, material, indubitably ‘objective’ superiority that the West enjoyed over the rest of the inhabited world. Thus the father of scientific taxonomy, Linnaeus, recorded the division between the residents of Europe and inhabitants of Africa with the same scrupulous precision as that which he applied while describing the difference between crustacea and fishes. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 199 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In the first chapter of the history that the others have compiled for me, the foundation of cannibalism has been made eminently plain in order that I may not lose sight of it. My chromosomes were supposed to have a few thicker or thinner genes representing cannibalism. In addition to the sex-linked, the scholars had now discovered the raciallinked. What a shameful science! — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Respectable scientific pioneers, not just racists, furnished racism’s racial hierarchies — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 199; Nazi racial programs were initiated and managed by credentialed scientists themselves — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 318; Racism rests on pseudo-scientific race accounts that justify inequality. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 115 (+7 more)

Related

• Respectable scientific pioneers, not just racists, furnished racism’s racial hierarchies (similarity 0.89)
• Early race scholars were often not deliberate racists (similarity 0.86)
• Racist science invented chromosomal genes for racial traits (similarity 0.82)
• Nazi racial programs were initiated and managed by credentialed scientists themselves (similarity 0.80)
• Moral and physiological traits were fused onto racialized types to ground genetic universal claims (similarity 0.80)
• Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes. (similarity 0.78)
• Blumenbach joined cultural and physical traits while ranking Caucasians as the original human race. (similarity 0.78)
• Racism rests on pseudo-scientific race accounts that justify inequality. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Respectable scientific pioneers, not just racists, furnished racism’s racial hierarchies #corroborates (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 199
• Racist science invented chromosomal genes for racial traits #exemplifies (0.80)
• Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes. #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437
• Racism rests on pseudo-scientific race accounts that justify inequality. #corroborates (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 115
• Nazi racial programs were initiated and managed by credentialed scientists themselves #exemplifies (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 318
• The 1901 commission discovered that assumed racial knowledge was actually wrong #qualifies (0.72)
• German scientists eagerly co-operated with the Nazi racial project #exemplifies (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 317
• World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy #expands (0.70)
• African conscription in World War I triggered postwar racialization and reaction. #expands (0.70)
• Early race scholars were often not deliberate racists #qualifies (0.70)