Word: darwinistic
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...search for a teacher willing to challenge a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Town leaders, eager to boost the local economy with the media attention a trial would bring, came up with a 24-year-old science teacher named John Thomas Scopes, who was willing to teach Darwinist theory instead of creationism...
...claim racism no longer hampers minorities’ life chances) writes as if it is truly exciting that his “evidence” proves there is something defective about minorities, and especially blacks, that cannot be tied to mainstream racism. Bolduc chooses to term that social-darwinist defect “culture,” while others have gone as far as to term it “biology.” This underlying excitement, while disturbing, is not the main problem with Bolduc’s article. Rather, the problem is his evidence, which is taken...
...women as a synecdoche for an entire religion, society, or nation—especially in combination with Orientalist and Social Darwinist notions of Western superiority—is unbelievably dangerous. Subsuming the geographies, histories, and experiences of millions of women into the stereotypical image of the veiled, Arab (and, one assumes, “subordinate”) woman is simply inaccurate (there are over 110 million Muslim women living in the more liberal Indonesia alone). By creating a singular entity of Muslim women, Horowitz allows himself to adopt the voice of the “Muslim woman?...
...place orders throughout the night, until the Porcs-to-be finally caught on—$600 and 7-11’s entire stock of Redbull later. The Spee’s website is really awesome! Overheard in the Lamont Cafe: “I think social Darwinist arguments are pretty powerful.” Overheard in the Yard: “It was really bad timing because I just came off the pill...
...12th on another. Different methodologies yield different results, and Harvard, for example, would presumably not win the highest points for undergraduate teaching. Perhaps it is also here that college-bound families will feel more satisfied with their station in life and not indulge in their more Darwinist impulses, as has been the case in recent years...