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meh, seems like an opinion not backed up by any content in the article. I don't think a "general belief in white racial superiority" would ever be an impedimen
by muststopmyths 6y ago
meh, seems like an opinion not backed up by any content in the article.
I don't think a "general belief in white racial superiority" would ever be an impediment to employing natives who were good at a job. (You can find examples of this in, for example, the armies of the British Empire.)
I think that's true to this day, regardless of the specific races of the employer or employee. If you need a job done, you find the best person for the job.
It's when that person wants to marry your daughter that you truly find out what you are made of.
- asimpletune 6y agoWell I thought there were actually a few places that it was supported in the article, like for example how they permitted an alternative chain of command for the Kroomen, which was considered sacrosanct by the royal navy. You could of course say that they just did that to achieve the best results, but that would be precisely my point. They employed the Kroomen based on what worked best, by the merits of the circumstances and not some arbitrary racism. Later on, the use of the Kroomen was abandoned, for mostly non-sensical reasons, to which the author surmises was most likely due to the rise of pseudo-scientific race superiority theories. In other words, they no longer employed people in their navy, despite their usefulness, because the merits weren't enough to overcome their bias. But I do agree with you about the daughter thing.