something that really bothers me when people discuss natural selection is when people ask questions along the lines of, “why aren’t all turtles extinct if they’re so slow and dumb” and “if neanderthals are superior to gorillas, then why are neanderthals extinct?”.
Like these are such misled questions that you’d have to answer completely different, unasked questions to actually help the person understand, but it also belies a really unfortunate fact about the history of evolutionary science and how natural selection was once, and for a really long time, studied as if evolution is a battle between superiors and inferiors. and this framework was developed for the purpose of economic and sociopolitical gain, and to justify bigotry toward marginalized peoples, and this framework still permeates how people teach and learn about natural selection. it worries me a lot!
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People in the comments of these makeup videos are like
“lol i’m not cruelty free because then they’d have to test on humans”
Okay, first of all, all makeup, regardless of whether or not it’s tested on animals WILL be tested on humans at some point. So your argument makes no sense.
More importantly, do you really want to be using makeup that hasn’t been tested and proven to be safe on human skin? Would you want that near your eyes? Really?
The Paradox Machine 