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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.
See Human Zoos in Las Vegas at FreedomFest!
It’s not, how shall I say this, an audience guaranteed to be sympathetic to a critique of Darwinism and its social impact, even one as thoroughly researched and accurately told as this.
In Evolutionary Thinking, Roseanne Barr’s Offensive Tweet Has a Long History
Some voices, if not necessarily thoughtful or serious ones, have recognized this, while at the same time missing the point.