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Misogyny. Also why Nietzsche was an asshole.
The text below was written less than 100 years ago when women were still fighting for the right to vote in many parts of the United States (and indeed, in the world).
Note the snide comment about natives wanting to be equal to white men at the end. Perish the thought!
By Sir Almroth Wright In The unexpurgated case against women’s suffrage. (1913). pp 88-98.
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“The woman voter...
“That the Mediterranean peoples are morally below the races of northern Europe is...”
– Edward A. Ross, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin in “Racial Consequences of Immigration” p. 619 of The Century, Volume 87 (1914).
(The racism and discrimination that new immigrants to the United States face is not new; 100 years ago, Italian and Irish immigrants faced it...
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December 2011
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“An indifference to life, and a love of cruelty for cruelty’s sake, are...”
– “British India” by Charles Creighton Hazewell, The Atlantic Monthly; November, 1857.
(Many thanks to @34_1 for the submission.)
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An imperialist soliloquy: or why it is dangerous...
“It is a very serious condition which England is approaching in the control of its colonial possessions, particularly in Egypt and India…
The native press frets and scolds, and we are told now and then how the hatred of the fellahin for the British breaks out in attacks which require bloody punishment. Egypt asks for the right of self-government, while Britain gives it not a particle...
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The following in a except from an essay published in 1886 which asserts the British right to rule India.
In British India there have been military mutinies, but there has been no political insurrection. In an American review the other day, there appeared a furious invective against British rule in India penned by one of the set of people called, I believe, cultivated Baboos, who would be crushed...
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How to skin a tiger
“No time should be lost when a tiger has been secured in removing his skin, else the hair will begin to drop out. Throwing him on his back, make a cut from one corner of the mouth down the medial throat and belly to the root of the tail. From this cut, four lateral incisions must diverge to the extremities of the limbs. The last metacarpal and metatarsal bones should be left in the skin....
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“You will find very few Englishmen who have not got an instinctive aversion for...”
– Elder Smith. The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 42. (1880).
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The economics of indentured servitude in Fiji
Up to 1876, the demand was fairly met by Polynesians, but the wages offered in Fiji being low in comparison with Queensland- ie. £3 per annum as against £6, the demand greatly exceeded the supply; and to the far-sighted statesmanship of Sir Arthur H. Gordon is due the fact that the Agent General of Immigration was dispatched to Calcutta for the purpose of securing the services of coolies, and...
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“Physical and Intellectual Character of Hindoos.
In respect to race, the...”
– A cyclopedia of missions. C. Scribner (1855)
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“What Shall we Do with our Convicts?
In answer to the above question, and it...”
– Punch, November 7, 1857 Volume xxxiii.
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“Throughout the journey not a single European is to be met with, but the...”
– A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India, Charles Acland (1847).
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“The ascidian that got itself evolved into Bengali Baboos must have seized the...”
– From: Twenty-one days in India by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1881).
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