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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Where has that occurred? What are you talking about?
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What you just did here:
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Then again, humanism did give rise to nazism and genocide, so it's hard to tell where humanists fall on the celebration of white nationalism.
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It's the "greatest crimes of the 20th century" objection to humanism that made the rounds a decade ago from the Jerry Falwell brigade rearing its head. The implication is that humanism is prone to blinding itself to morality in favour of cold scientific analysis, and as a result, is susceptible to the absolute worst sort of evil. It represents revisionist history and an attempt to attribute the blame for these atrocities to a non-causal factor. I'm not going to re-litigate the whole argument that I had thought was dead and buried years ago, but that's what I was talking about.
Good use of the Truman meme, though.