Tag: Monkey House
Survey: Americans Favor Education on Scientific Racism; Call for Famed Zoo, Museum to Apologize
“Most Americans realize we need to learn from the past,” said John West, writer and director of the new documentary Human Zoos. “But we can’t learn from the past if we cover it up.”
On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”
Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo.
Understatement: According to Current Zoo Director, Caging Man “Shouldn’t Have Happened”
Hammering home the lesson about “our own evolutionary history” was exactly the purpose behind displaying and humiliating an African man with monkeys.
New Documentary Human Zoos Isn’t Ancient History
Evolution, the New York Times lectured, is “No more debatable than the multiplication table.” Sound familiar?
On a Grim Anniversary, Shocking Documentary Human Zoos Now Available on Amazon
This was supposed to be of scientific interest, educating visitors in the evolutionary doctrine that placed Africans in close relationship to apes.