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Albert the hypocrite
Einstein the Anti-Racist? Not in His Travel Diaries
“It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us, the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
“Intellectual needs of [Japan] seem to be weaker than their artistic ones — natural disposition?”
“[The Ceylonese] live in great filth and considerable stench at ground level,” adding that they “do little, and need little. The simple economic cycle of life.”
Well, turns out Einstein was a hypocrite about racism and humanism. Or was he?
“It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us, the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
“Intellectual needs of [Japan] seem to be weaker than their artistic ones — natural disposition?”
“[The Ceylonese] live in great filth and considerable stench at ground level,” adding that they “do little, and need little. The simple economic cycle of life.”
Well, turns out Einstein was a hypocrite about racism and humanism. Or was he?