Thursday, June 14, 2018

№ 356: E=mc racist?

Guardian: Einstein's travel diaries reveal 'shocking' xenophobia

“Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.”

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

[in Ceylon people] “live in great filth and considerable stench at ground level. . .” 

“Japanese. . .[o]ne has to love and admire this country. . . .intellectual needs of this nation seem to be weaker than their artistic ones – natural disposition?”

Just goes to show
as you'd expect
when no one's looking
saints aren't perfect.

If Albert wrote this
with total aplomb,
must we now disavow
the atom bomb?

But, please, let us not
jump to the conclusion
that Albert'd be down with
Trump's Klu Klux Kollusion.

Distressing, of course,
that he thought others vermin.
Einstein was Jewish
but Albert is German*.
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*#UStoo, "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist"