I'm speaking out of context from those people specifically as, for the most part, I don't have any particular adoration for them. Regardless, you simply cannot

I'm speaking out of context from those people specifically as, for the most part, I don't have any particular adoration for them. Regardless, you simply cannot take things out of the context of history. In that day, it was common to find scientific evidence (or at least reports masquerading as scientific from otherwise esteemed scientists) suggesting that non-caucasian races were inferior, and weren't meant to be treated as equals. It wasn't too long ago that the common knowledge was that homosexuality led to increased and unavoidable risk of diseases. It's too easy to look back on history and decry those idiots for succumbing to common knowledge, but it is naive to do so.. and is analogous to mocking them for letting so many die of Polio, when it is so easily vaccinated against now.