• Nakoichi [they/them]
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    54 days ago

    Its origins were noble

    No they most certainly were not. It’s origins is in eugenics and white supremacist nonsense.

    • @snek_boi@lemmy.mlOP
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      12 days ago

      If we ignore Alfred Binet, then sure I can get onboard with you :) Indeed, the pre-IQ head-measuring stage of racism was filled with white supremacist nonsense. In that sense, it is a history filled with pseudoscience and pain.

      Out of curiousity, would you classify Alfred Binet as an eugenicist and white supremacist?

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        12 days ago

        Binet took part in a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether school children with learning difficulties should be sent to a special boarding school attached to a lunatic asylum

        Yes.