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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference QUOTES

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference QUOTES

1 " When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

2 " Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

3 " Anti-Semitism is one of the only forms of racial bigotry that punches upwards to perceived power "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

4 " Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

5 " Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. Neither race nor racism has foundations in science. It is our duty to contest the warping of scientific research, especially if it is being used to justify prejudice. If you are a racist, then you are asking for a fight. But science is my ally, not yours, and your fight is not just with me, but with reality. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

6 " When all you’ve ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

7 " Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every white supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, Native American, aboriginal Australian ancestors, as well as everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy. For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

8 " demonstrates quite clearly Swift’s maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

9 " It behoves us all to confront racism wherever we find it, especially when it is covert or normalised in stereotypes and myth, and science is a weapon in that contest. The academic and political activist Angela Davis said that ‘in a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

10 " As Jonathan Swift said in 1721: ‘Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

11 " For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

12 " The nineteenth-century abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker said that the moral arc of the world tends towards justice, "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

13 " There may well be evolutionary and psychological reasons for these prejudices, such as to protect ourselves and kin from invaders who want to kill us and take our stuff. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

14 " All it took was the officer’s own silence and weight. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

15 " Our brains are large for our body size, but that ratio is much greater in ants and shrews. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

16 " We know that some early humans migrated into Asia and Europe within the last quarter of a million years, but their dominion outside of Africa was temporary, and they probably leave no descendants today. Around seventy thousand years ago another group of people drifted away from Africa, and the process of setting down new roots all over this planet began. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

17 " scientific research, one that underwrites every single aspect of the life sciences. “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

18 " In contrast, the governments of the US, Sweden, Nazi Germany, and other countries had active eugenics policies that resulted in the forced sterilizations and deaths of millions. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

19 " Alice is sixteen, and is four times older than Ben; how old will Alice be when Ben is half her age? "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

20 " you have the potential to be a Formula 1 champion. It is easier to measure something than to understand what it is you are measuring. "

― Adam Rutherford , How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference