Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological advantage” argument that now transphobes use against trans athletes to claim it was “unfair” for black to compete against whites to justify segregation.

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
    15·
    1 年前

    This was taught to me in grade school. I feel pretty betrayed.

    Suffice it to say, I found it dubious even as a child and as an adult, learned better, but WTF.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 个月前

      Was it one teacher or multiple? I live in a fairly progressive US state, but I definitely had a one or two backwards teachers with axes to grind.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
        1·
        11 个月前

        Just the one.

        There was mention in a textbook of native Americans having slightly different shaped teeth, sorta scoop shaped on the inside to be good at scraping stuff. Can confirm tho, my teeth are a little scoopy, am a bit native American.

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 个月前

          While it wouldn’t be weird for there to be slightly different bone shapes between ethnicities, it’s concerning that it would be part of a grade school curriculum and not an advance college course for dentists or forensics.

          • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
            1·
            11 个月前

            It wasn’t fully without context. We were learning how native Americans were able to tan hides without tanneries. One of the methods that they used is to scrape the skins clean and some other stuff that I don’t remember because it was like 5th grade or something, damn part of that involve them scraping the skins with their teeth, which were specifically adapted and well suited for the task.