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Photo: A human display from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, via Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›
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Photo: A chatbot, by UC Davis College of Engineering, via Flickr (cropped).

Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Coralie Mercier, via Flickr (cropped).

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: John West.

Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Read More ›
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Photo: Bronx Zoo, Monkey House, by Antigng / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Students Sue School District for $12 Million Over “Monkey See” Photos

“There can’t be any question about what they meant. Remember, this is a zoology class. Evolution is taught.” Read More ›
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Photo: A peaceful protest in Minneapolis, by Fibonacci Blue / CC BY.

Human Zoos — How “Science” Fueled the Racial Fire

Where did many white people of the past get the wicked idea that their lives matter more than black lives? Read More ›
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Photo: Portland’s elk statue in better days, by Cacophony (photograph) / Public domain.

Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief

What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top? Read More ›
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Photo: Pamela Newkirk in a scene from Human Zoos.

Journalist Finds a “Cover-Up” by the Bronx Zoo

It wasn’t until they were forced by events that the Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society admitted this black life mattered. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Geran de Klerk via Unsplash.

Pushing Elephant “Personhood”

Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Read More ›
Pamela Newkirk
Pamela Newkirk
Photo: Pamela Newkirk in a scene from Human Zoos.

Journalist Finds a “Cover-Up” by the Bronx Zoo

It wasn’t until they were forced by events that the Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society admitted this black life mattered. Read More ›

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