The Soviet Union pushed anti-racism as a means to undermining the United States...what they actually did in their own society was a different matter altogether.
This is completely untrue, and shows a significant lack of historical understanding. The soviets believed in anti-racism because they believed in Lysenkioism, which is an outright denial of natural selection. They believed in it so deeply they even allowed their own crops to fail, and their people to starve, in order to keep up the facade that it was correct. They also didn't divide by race at all, only class. They were even the first to allow women in their military and secret police, because they thought that men and women were basically the same. And it also had nothing to do with the US at all; this all happened long before there was any real tension between the soviets and the US.
"They need to go back to Africa": who?
Uh, all African Americans? I suspect back to the Ivory Coast, which is where almost all slaves originated from, but frankly I don't care where.
"The soviets believed in anti-racism because they believed in Lysenkioism, which is an outright denial of natural selection."
The victims of numerous "ethnic cleansings" (which was really taking the idea of "races" of people to an extreme) are alas no longer available for comment.
You do know what the primary tenet of Lysenkoism is, correct? In a nutshell that acquired traits can become hereditary -- which is pretty damn, well, racist. My genes have definitely given me my height, certain immunities/weaknesses to certain diseases, even my skin/hair/eye color, and yes has factored into my IQ (although there could be a great debate to be had for just how valuable IQ is in the making of success or even a good citizen -- some might say individual character does play a significant role, I tend to agree with that)...but it has not conferred any ability whatsoever to build a ship...or sing opera.
Why should every African American be compelled to go to Africa? Culturally they wouldn't fit in as they weren't raised in any of those cultures; genetically they wouldn't either (most of them carry a significant European genetic footprint). And maybe they would just prefer to stay where they were originally from; there's that reason. Oh, wait, surely you don't believe (since you don't believe racism = skin color) that all people who have Sub-Saharan African features belong to a particular race (as you described it -- genetic proximity, not skin color)? Well, whatever you do, don't put them in Cameroon or Germany unless you do a genetic workup and find they've got R1b!
This is completely untrue, and shows a significant lack of historical understanding. The soviets believed in anti-racism because they believed in Lysenkioism, which is an outright denial of natural selection. They believed in it so deeply they even allowed their own crops to fail, and their people to starve, in order to keep up the facade that it was correct. They also didn't divide by race at all, only class. They were even the first to allow women in their military and secret police, because they thought that men and women were basically the same. And it also had nothing to do with the US at all; this all happened long before there was any real tension between the soviets and the US.
Uh, all African Americans? I suspect back to the Ivory Coast, which is where almost all slaves originated from, but frankly I don't care where.
"The soviets believed in anti-racism because they believed in Lysenkioism, which is an outright denial of natural selection."
The victims of numerous "ethnic cleansings" (which was really taking the idea of "races" of people to an extreme) are alas no longer available for comment.
You do know what the primary tenet of Lysenkoism is, correct? In a nutshell that acquired traits can become hereditary -- which is pretty damn, well, racist. My genes have definitely given me my height, certain immunities/weaknesses to certain diseases, even my skin/hair/eye color, and yes has factored into my IQ (although there could be a great debate to be had for just how valuable IQ is in the making of success or even a good citizen -- some might say individual character does play a significant role, I tend to agree with that)...but it has not conferred any ability whatsoever to build a ship...or sing opera.
Why should every African American be compelled to go to Africa? Culturally they wouldn't fit in as they weren't raised in any of those cultures; genetically they wouldn't either (most of them carry a significant European genetic footprint). And maybe they would just prefer to stay where they were originally from; there's that reason. Oh, wait, surely you don't believe (since you don't believe racism = skin color) that all people who have Sub-Saharan African features belong to a particular race (as you described it -- genetic proximity, not skin color)? Well, whatever you do, don't put them in Cameroon or Germany unless you do a genetic workup and find they've got R1b!