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"the meme is the 19th century reformatted. Where race science once leaned on calipers & cranial photographs to make hierarchy appear fact, the meme keeps the visual grammar & throws away the instruments...this is Scientific Racism 2.0: same essentialist conclusions, recoded for an attention economy"
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When a meme looks like science « Anthropology# « Cambridge Core Blog
How old racial hierarchies travel through new feeds, and why they are so hard to argue with Scroll far enough through X and you will meet a familiar kind of image: a pair of faces set side by side, a ...
