Reply #3: Failure to distinguish social Darwinism from Darwinism. [View All]

Social darwinism is based upon the mistaken premise that races are "species" and the fatally flawed notion that nations are biological organisms of genetically homogeneous populations.

Social Darwinism was the product of racism and the inhumanity to man, necessitated by imperial politics of colonialism and despotic rule over so called "genetically inferior" races.

This misapplication of scientific Darwinism concerning evolution and the origin of species was a perversion of the scientific method and had absolute nothing to do with Darwins theory of evolution.

Crackpots like Himmler sent teams of Nazi "anthropologists" to measure the skull sizes of "Aryan" progenitors in central Asia. To attribute this insanity to Darwin's scientific efforts is a ludicrous and intentional distortion of the truth. This intellectual fraud was the product of 19th Century Imperialists in England, the US, and elsewhere, attempting to impose their rule by conquest and murder throughout the "underdeveloped" world. Measuring skull size was big magic for lying conquerors.

One might suggest that it was the propaganda/misinformation equivalent of saying that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or that we are in a struggle for survival with "terrorists."