• NAXLAB@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Post rationalization perhaps?

    It could also be similar to the logic of phrenology, where they pointed at objective measurements of various features of people’s skulls to make wild conclusions about the superiority or inferiority of different races. It’s not that they were falsifying the measurements, they just skipped a step and treated the sensibilities of the most privileged and influential members of society as objective fact.