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Einstein's travel diaries reveal 'shocking' xenophobia
The Guardian ^ | Tue 12 Jun 2018 | Alison Flood

Posted on 06/13/2018 4:19:06 PM PDT by RedMonqey

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To: RedMonqey

He doesn’t sound as bad as some of the Abe Lincoln quotes I’ve seen.


41 posted on 06/13/2018 5:35:54 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Delta 21

I wonder how they dressed before the Mao suit.


42 posted on 06/13/2018 5:39:07 PM PDT by donna (The California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
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To: RedMonqey
A. The Chinese are filthy and obtuse.

B. White people are filthy and obtuse.

Which of these sweeping generalizations would a lib find to be courageously insightful?

43 posted on 06/13/2018 6:06:41 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: donna

read THE PEARL.


44 posted on 06/13/2018 6:09:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: donna

Or was it THE GOOD EARTH BY PEARL BUCK?


45 posted on 06/13/2018 6:10:11 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: RedMonqey

Even today, Han Chinese tend to look down on non-Han Chinese in much the same way as Einstein did.


46 posted on 06/13/2018 6:11:54 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: binreadin
Got news for this author—if you read ANYONES’ writings from that time frame or before you will run into lots of material that is now considered insensitive and offensive when it comes to other races and/or classes. Read Lincoln, read Jefferson, read Franklin, read Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, etc., etc., etc.

The "racist" cartoons of Bugs Bunny in the 40's would likely result in criminal charges today, especially in the UK if the target group were Muslims instead of Japanese.

47 posted on 06/13/2018 6:18:29 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Chickensoup

I forgot all about that book. I never did read it. That would be interesting.


48 posted on 06/13/2018 6:24:46 PM PDT by donna (The California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
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To: Delta 21; donna

From Einstein’s quote about Chinese women, it’s clear he never caught “yellow fever “


49 posted on 06/13/2018 6:29:41 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: Teacher317

And if you really want to read some hateful stuff check out what the Chinese and Japanese had to say about each other.


50 posted on 06/13/2018 6:31:19 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Oh lordy,not that “yellow fever” thing again.

I have a wonderful Asian DIL and that expression is demeaning.

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51 posted on 06/13/2018 6:32:14 PM PDT by Mears
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To: RedMonqey

52 posted on 06/13/2018 6:32:28 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: RedMonqey
He notes how the “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.”

I guess it would be too much to ask for people to find out if the statement is correct.

Now the words "spiritless and look obtuse" I can object to, since how would he know what a random Chinese person on the street is thinking. But when people travel they often describe the differences between people, and this is certainly one of the noticeable differences in a Chinese city.

While it looks odd to a westerner, if you think about it, it is a lot cleaner than sitting on a park bench. The only part of them touching the ground is the bottom of their shoes, just like when they are walking.

53 posted on 06/13/2018 6:38:54 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: RedMonqey

Did he ever travel to sub-Saharan Africa? Would love to read his observations on that.


54 posted on 06/13/2018 6:46:51 PM PDT by gatorhead
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#31: "Now it can be revealed that like Aristotle, Einstein didn’t invent nuttin’. He traveled to Egypt and stole the theory of relativity from the Library at Alexandria."

Yes, and not to be forgotten, the author of half of those books, Kunta Kinte himself.
 

55 posted on 06/13/2018 6:58:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: ealgeone

I don’t know. Doesn’t that mean he believed in moral relativism?


56 posted on 06/13/2018 7:03:59 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: RedMonqey

In other words, he was put off by the crudeness, the dirt, the laziness, the ick factor. Oh! The horror! We’re all supposed to embrace and revel in the foreign cultures, no matter how repulsive. (Can you tell I’m a xenophobe?)


57 posted on 06/13/2018 7:13:22 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Mears

Don’t be so touchy. I’m sure your dil would be just as wonderful, if she weren’t Asian. My dil is Lebanese. She is awesome!, but I really don’t think it has anything to do with her ethnicity.


58 posted on 06/13/2018 7:22:51 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: RedMonqey

“It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races.”

The Einstein myth continues, because the facts are not widely know. His first wife, Helen, wrote his papers for ten years and then used his Nobel money to purchase property in Burbank, CA. Einstein had a new woman every weekend and settled down with Elsa, his niece. The person was illogical and immoral.

Unlike Albert, George Einstein succeeded in Berkeley and worked with real geniuses, such as Ernst Lawrence, Hermann Oberth and Werher von Braun. Wow. Berkeley lead the way with the cyclotron, the space industry, the computer industry and the making of Ronald Reagan.


59 posted on 06/13/2018 8:40:46 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: gatorhead; Flaming Conservative; Vince Ferrer; P.O.E.; Flag_This; Karl Spooner; montag813; ...

Yes, Einstein was a man of his times, just like men like Lee, Jackson, Jefferson, Washington and numerous other historic figures our leftist snowflakes are too sensitive to learn about or have their statues marr their presences with their mere existence, whether in the history books or an actual statues.
One can learn from history without erasing history.

Funny thing, Einstein’s opinion many many years ago resemble the vistas my cousin who travel on business in these exotic lands and matches her present day opinion of the same.

The Third world is a filthy, backward place.


60 posted on 06/13/2018 8:47:28 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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