Ok but what does this have to do with darwin? The illustration is from a book written by John Clark Ridpath. Is this an attempt to brand darwin as a racist? Sure he might be a cousin fucker and probably held some views that might be seen as outlandish today but from what I know he was pretty much against slavery and argued for humans to have a common ancestor and not whatever this illustration is supposed to be.
ok so from some more reading. yes he probably was a racist, but my other points still stand and the illustration isnt from him
Ok but what does this have to do with darwin? The illustration is from a book written by John Clark Ridpath. Is this an attempt to brand darwin as a racist? Sure he might be a cousin fucker and probably held some views that might be seen as outlandish today but from what I know he was pretty much against slavery and argued for humans to have a common ancestor and not whatever this illustration is supposed to be.
ok so from some more reading. yes he probably was a racist, but my other points still stand and the illustration isnt from him
Like I wrote, the illustration is not his, it is a later interpretation and wilful misrepresentation of Darwin’s ideas.
And that disclaimer you wrote, besides being insufficient to explain darwin’s connection to this image, is also buried in the comments.
I guess you better upvote it, then!
Actually me and nearly everyone else already found the downvote button on the main thread without your help.
Noted.