illustrations from Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, a book on phrenology by L. A. Vaught published in 1902. See many more images from the book ON THE MAIN SITE.
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This is really really asking for a bingocarding of all the myriad racist, sexist etc. stereotypes that just so incredibly conveniently happen to be easily mapped into physical features statistically corresponding to the stereotyped populations. Pointing out and naming them shall be left as an exercise for the reader but oh yeah I’m so seeing quite a lot of them.
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4 months ago · tagged #racism cw #also suddely elves and orcs #the materialist orc is sad because the correct ontology is dismissed because of racism #materialist elves unite against phrenological stereotypes #i get called an elf more than i get called a man #not really complaining about that #wait a moment where does computationalism fit in #after all it really doesn't matter where and how the algorithm is instantiated #feel free to groan about that one #boxes don't work · 1,140 notes · .permalink