Behind the Bastards

We conclude the story of Francis Galton and explore all the hideous ways his ideas helped inspire eugenic laws around the world, and ultimately the Holocaust.
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Robert explains how Francis Galton helped invent modern forensic science while looking for ways to be more racist, as well as continuing his weird fetish of 'measuring' attractive women.

Sources:
https://www.historyofdatascience.com/francis-galton-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-19th-century-science/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/kantsaywhere
https://unseenhistories.substack.com/p/the-disturbing-visions-of-francis-galton-gavin-evans
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/dfd786fa-2090-4749-bcbe-3cc7159e55b5/content
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/anti-racism/lies-damned-lies-and-racist-statistics/
https://www.scienceaq.com/Article/other/22011.html
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-anthropometric-detective-and-his-racial-clues/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42042093-superior
https://books.google.com/books/about/Francis_Galton.html?id=vL0hq80XXqMC
https://galton.org/books/memories/index.html
https://victorianweb.org/victorian/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////science/health/insanity1.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825003853
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PTCw5CJT7cE6Kx9ZR/most-people-endorse-some-form-of-eugenics
https://www.balkanweb.com/en/They-are-brother-and-sister-but-have-4-children-together.-German-couple-in-trouble-with-authorities--fighting-to-legalize-incest./#gsc.tab=0
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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78669/pg78669-images.html
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-dangerous-calculation/
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301897
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Counterrevolution in Egypt
What Happened with Milo Yiannopoulos?

The Death of American Hegemony
Executive Disorder: Escalation in Iran, Trade War with Canada, Arcade.gov
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Sources/Links:
Counterrevolution in Egypt
Hossam’s substack - https://barracks.substack.com/
Hossam’s book - https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt?srsltid=AfmBOoo0NJfxdpH2uIJsXqXLfdSs10LtMgK9hCiKx7TeLHQO4OzTWF-L
What Happened with Milo Yiannopoulos?
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2093428821835796688?s=20
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2093387128717951297?s=20
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2093491920001749378?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pSX84h9K8
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/at-gays-for-trump-party-the-former-fringe-celebrates-trumps
https://hyperallergic.com/milo-yiannopoulos-manuscript-art/
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https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827112633224544256?s=20
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/milo-yiannopoulos-ex-gay-b1815296.html
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2033500725008081185?s=20
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2046016856184717814?s=20
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-celebrating-milo-yiannopoulos-deportation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPcfkSWQjOk
The Death of American Hegemony
https://www.endnotes.org.uk/issues/issue-2/endnotes-misery-and-debt
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/encyclopedia/war-and-military-affairs/alfred-thayer-mahan/
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Executive Disorder: Escalation in Iran, Trade War with Canada, Arcade.gov
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In part 2, we follow Galton during his youthful rampage through the middle east and then Africa, and how his 'gap years' created the racism we all live with today.
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This week Robert begins our exploration of Francis Galton, a groundbreaking explorer and statistician who also invented modern racism as we know it by creating Eugenics.
(4 Part Series)
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