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Darwin explains MAGA

LovinLarge 8 Mar 2
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Fake quotes abound....
Darwin never said or wrote this.

Prove it, plagiarist.

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Did British naturalist Charles Darwin, best known for his contributions to the evolutionary theory in biology, who died in 1882, predict "the rise of The Woke," a modern-day slang term frequently used by the opponents of those raising awareness of social and racial issues? No, that's not true. Lead Stories performed numerous searches on Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex and Google Books, using as search terms the entire quote in question, separate sentences from that quote and keywords in addition to a close look at Darwin's work "On the Origine of Species." These searches produced no relevant results proving that the British naturalist (or anyone else) indeed said the words from a picture shared on social media.

The claim appeared in a post published on Facebook on February 25, 2023. A shared picture did not have any description, and the entire claim was placed in the add-on text in the image. It opened:

"Charles Darwin predicts the rise of The Woke"

It continued:

At some stage, the Human Species will divide. Whilst most will continue to evolve, a minority of those lacking the intellectual capacity of thought, will develop as a sub-species. Being easily lead, form into Packs attempting to control the majority. They will deny biology, attempt to undo the centuries of human development by re-writing history, and gradually revert to their Primate Origins. They will expect all to conform to their point of view without questions.

The post reused the image from the cover of a 2011 printing of Charles Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species."

Via electronic access to the New York Public Library resources available remotely with a valid library card, Lead Stories searched the quote in question sentence by sentence, but it did not return any results:

Source: [leadstories.com]darwin-predicted-the-rise-of-the-woke.html

Redirecting it at MAGA does nothing to make it less untrue.
Even though MAGA are indeed a basket of deplorable ass hats.

Someone wrote it. Without evidence of whom to attribute it, it may have been he.

@LovinLarge No he didn't it was posted on Facebook as "Charles Darwin predicts the rise of The Woke" Feb 25th 2023.
It's MAGA propaganda.

@Willow_Wisp Do you know who wrote it?

@Willow_Wisp I can't imagine that MAGATS could realistically claim to be intellectually superior but HG Wells did say something similar. Also, a MAGAT reference to Darwin is unlikely as they tend to be very religious. I'm only saying that if you don't have definitive proof of the author, nor can you rule anyone out.

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@LovinLarge Yes, we know who wrote it. Jeeze!

@Willow_Wisp Who?

@LovinLarge The person that posted it on Facebook on Feb 25th 2023.... I will not go to Facebook, it's a septic tank to retrieve that name.
You'd argue with a stop sign.
This has been fact checked, read my post.

@Willow_Wisp Leadstories.com looks like a reputable group. I believe them that they found no evidence attributing the quote to Darwin but they did not identify an author so their findings are not conclusive. There's no evidence that whoever posted it on FB last week was the author. Anyway, thanks for posting that information.

Am I 100% sure he didn't write it? Not 100% but pretty close to it. Anyone with any familiarity with Darwin will see a couple glaring red flags. First, he didn't use the word "evolve" in that context. Second, he went out of his way to avoid applying his discoveries to human society. Of course others would later do so with problematic implications, to say the least. In general it bears little resemblance to anything he ever wrote, and I see no reason to conclude it's genuine.

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