Though now that you put it like this, I've certainly encountered the anti-hot-climate-full-of-brown-people bias in less explicit contexts. I think what was particularly absurd and egregious to me was seeing it set down so plainly as a direct causal link, rather than a sort of casual byproduct of racism along the lines of "well we know the brown people are inferior, and these are the climates they happen to live in." Not that either formulation is, say, "logical," but that passage from Burton reads to me like a parody of someone justifying their racism by pathologizing other races. Alas: not a parody at all. :-/
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Date: 2019-01-15 03:38 pm (UTC)Though now that you put it like this, I've certainly encountered the anti-hot-climate-full-of-brown-people bias in less explicit contexts. I think what was particularly absurd and egregious to me was seeing it set down so plainly as a direct causal link, rather than a sort of casual byproduct of racism along the lines of "well we know the brown people are inferior, and these are the climates they happen to live in." Not that either formulation is, say, "logical," but that passage from Burton reads to me like a parody of someone justifying their racism by pathologizing other races. Alas: not a parody at all. :-/