Was Albert Einstein Racist? | The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2018
- A journal entry from Albert Einstein contains derogatory remarks about Chinese people, and Donald Trump Jr. delivers a sad birthday message to his dad via "Fox & Friends."
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In the 1930's Einstein also said in an interview: “Being a Jew myself, perhaps I can understand and empathize with how black people feel as victims of discrimination”
and began to use his influence as a famous scientist to speak against segregation in America.
The diaries they mention here are dated back to the 1920s so during this decade he probably realized he was wrong like many people that are born or grow up in a racist/nationalistic environment. The fact that he changed his beliefs and decided to fight for what is right is something he should be applauded for, instead we're her judging him for "not being woke since birth".
Perfectly said!
Yeah. It's easy to criticize when you don't do anything.
@Kaizoku Ho Ni That's because he didn't have it as hard as most other jews. Maybe that's why.
Fiorenza Agazzi and i lived in China and a lot chinese actually do this squad when waiting for the bus etc. it’s actually quite healthy (and hard to do) for your spine.
Yeah he didn't say anything about Asians though in the 1930s
As a Chinese I always thought squatting looks unsightly. But to it's defense: still cleaner than sitting on the ground and have your clothing filthy and benches isn't always available and it's the most energy cost effective way. If there was something to sit on they will choose it over squatting. Also, 1920's was a filthy industrial era.
Those few remarks in his journal isn't gonna make me think less of Einstein now. Context is important.
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Squatting is in fact ergonomically better for us for excretion. You can check out some articles about this. Almost every one of our ancestors squatted to excrete. We have evolved in such a manner ergonomically as well.
Have some self respect.
They opened his journal.... Couldn't understand anything else. So they have to talk about racism
Hem Laish
he could not understand either because it was not his
Pathetic people being in-denial 😞🙄
Kai H-B Know who you are talking to
Hem Laish You is who I’m talking too.
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He stopped being racist, and in fact became very outspoken against segregation, when he embraced socialism.
His support for civil rights and socialism was hidden from history.
@MCADHD666 VOL2 the struggle against racism is an important part of the socialist movement since the 19th century. They are obviously not the only political group to criticize racism, and there are some racist figures in the history of socialism, especially if you include the anarchist tradition.
stopped being racist towards black people you mean. he was still racist to other races like south asians and east asians. racism isn't limited to just one race. i do admire his achievements in science but its better to not idolize pretty much any western scientists as people
2:45 trevor almost laughed, had to struggle to stay in character.
I am an Indian,in those journals he was racist towards Indians too.
But he's still my scientific role model, because he had the intelligence to understand that racism is wrong later in life.
The people I do not like are the ones who think that the amount of melanin in someone's skin makes them inferior.
Isn't it normal for someone who lived in the past to have views that aren't up to present standards?
DarkSoulSama Nope. Unless we don't know enough about them.
DarkSoulSama well said
Trump doesn't live in the past and we let him slide..
Holding people accountable even in the past is key to opening a new chapter of wisdom and distinction between right and wrong. Not everyone was racist and most racists knew exactly what came out of there mouths then they said what they said.
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Even Einstein!! Really broke my heart. Looks like learning from your own experience is far better than idolizing somebody.
How shameful is going back to someone who lived a century ago just to find dirt, the man lived in a totally different world than ours and is being judged by pathetic people who have done nothing for humanity, stop worrying about what these great lot said a hundred years ago and focus on what’s happening now.
Well, your system goes back and prosecutes black celebraties because of historic crimes, Micheal Jackson, Bill Cosby is in prison now, R Kelly, while the white king of abuse Harvey Weistien is still at large, what exactly are you complaining about? Just because one of your own people you considered a genius was nothing but a racist, we know that most of American historical politicians, scientists, and celebraties were racist
Totally agree with you there!
@@Bhebe40 you're the sort of idiot who thinks the O J Simpson trial was racial discrimination
@@DarkShroom of all the things he said, that's the only thing you could pick up? 😂wow
his opinion doesn’t matter anyways
"Man in the 20s is racist" is the least interesting headline I've heard this year.
It's for ultra woke teens.
Humans hating each other. As old as hills.
He was a physicist not a humanitarian.
he was a person living in an age where racist theory was considered widely accepted and fact. There is nothing wrong with that. One cant judge people of the time by standards of 2018 and expect them to meet the criteria.
he WAS a humanitarian. So you clearly know nothing about him. He had a strong capacity for emotion as well as reason
alexander williams yeah like except humanitarian all the other people can talk racist , act racist , be racist...
alexander williams Isn't that ironic that he had to escape Germany precisely because of the Germans' racial stereo typing of the 'shifty and greedy Jews' only a few years after writing that about other people?
@Stephanie Alexeander-Spencer Exactly, and you don't need to be a humanitarian to not be a racist anyways.
Really unfair to judge people born 100 years ago by today’s standards, and just as unfair that you’ll be judged by people’s standards 100 years from now. (Edit: I’ve changed my mind. We do judge the past because we have become better. Racist views and racist actions are not equal.)
Space-Cadet David 'Spanky Bonespurs' Dennison good...you should
@@nyembsafric1 So you mean we must also not judge the whites for enslaving the blacks 200 years ago
@@lonelysophia852 Not the ones currently of course. Judge their ancestors not the decent ones who live now. Yeah call out the racist ones, since racism is an impediment to the progress of humanity.
"If you bend space and time,then you realize,oh I dun f*cked up!"
I love how the Trumps communicate with loved ones through fox.
Team TayTay you literally just repeated an occasion you made already in the video
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that was so petty
It's unfair to judge a person's honest opinion by today's standards. China wasn't in its best condition back then, and the westerners and the Chinese, unfortunately, don't have complete mutual understanding and trust to this day
Anton Sherstiuk and Europe was? Please
Look at you defending racism
Viren vs look at you hating on a dead guy for one racist comment by today's standard.
CeshMate
Who's hating?? I'm just enjoying racists defending other racists. What's next? Insults? The M word? the L word?
Well ... Idk. But how is the one defending a racist ?
I see less racism in this and more middle-class disdain of poverty. This was in the middle of the warlord era, when central law and order had broken down and China was in a chronic civil war between warlords. China at the time was reminiscent of Afghanistan today. When we see misery we implicitly assume they deserve it.
That said, disappointing myopia for a traveller that aware for his time.
Don Jnr looks like he was about to cry 😢
Why is everyone only talking about Einstein fr I actually feel bad for little Don somehow
In this video, i must say that it really IS sad.
It doesn’t matter what time you’re from, racism is still racism. I can guarantee you that there were people who knew that the discrimination of another race was wrong but why question the system when you’re profiting from it?
Being a genius isn't a full time job either.
That honestly sounds very tame for the time, I don't get why people would be shocked.
How many of us would think the same had we been born at that time?
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That transition to Trump Jr. though 😂😂😂😂😂
What’s wrong with the “Steins?”
Epstein, Weinstein, and now Einstein?
english speaking people pronouncing it wrong
My name is David Stein
It's honestly really cool how progressive Einstein was for his time
If the word racism didn’t exist, would Trevor Noah have a show?
Everyone could be ‘racist’ back then if viewed with today social standard
Just a man of his times....not supporting his views, just saying he wasn't alone in thinking and saying these things however wrong we see it now.
Pretty sure the Chinese saw it as wrong back then too
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How about Richard Feynman? He's my all time favourite!!
Not everyone in the 1920's was racist, there were nice accepting people around then as there have always been.
I think the only person born before 1950 who wasn't racist against Asians was Sir Hiram Maxim who wrote a book speaking very highly of the Chinese but even that may have just been boot-licking in case they took over.
Moral of the story: Never leave a diary behind...
Well thanks for calling us sexy Moroccan , but you should see how hard we work to get a meal before calling us lazy
Yes and it is acceptable at that time and age, he is not a modern person, Einstein was a scientist. This is same as shouting "China is taking our jobs", or LGBT should have fair rights.. social concept is a matter of acceptance not one that is dictated. If people don't understand, then that is why war happens, if there are one social concept that is true it is that war is a waste of talent and life, but yet, US ask for war and adds new funding? have we learn the social concept of change? No.
Don't hold your idols too high, they might fall.
@Andrew O'Sullivan Yeah... nothing to do with my post anyways, but whatever tickles your dipstick. I guess you have a remark too for the daughter left in germany
( channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/articles/einsteins-lost-child/ ), or how about his racist remarks didn't only point out chinese people ( www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-travel-diaries-reveal-shocking-xenophobia ). Just take into account that we are all just human, cherish what anybody can do or did for humanity, but realize that everybody has flaws, and some of them will shock you.
You know ? I don't care and many other also don't care ... he's dead. Btw Idolise a person on his achievements not on his personality.
Actually what does this news mean? It means very little actually. Scientists are not going to stop relying on his work and theories, and as for Einstein's image, well he's dead so no big change there. The most likely of all outcomes is that fewer people will dress up as him on Halloween or something like that.
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In the great scheme of things it will mean very little, you are right. But one can only hope to people to be less manicheistic, think critically with some depth, and learn to see things from the fence a bit more.
MalakianM2S not for me
As a Moroccan i never seen that coming.
There were some comments about Sri Lankans in those diaries too I believe...
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But the Chinese did have pretty bad public hygiene. Can't really argue with that lol. Even today Chinese tourists don't fail to disappoint. Lol
rkb xyz huh? I don't really get your point.
Kien D Luu
Where did the plague start? Europe
Boberto Be Baggio that's true. Touchè
Kien D Luu
He's point is basically the western world are brainwashing people. Plus wake up and stand against hate. This is fake reporting. They call it satire but it's sending negativity to the masses.
Have a nice day all. Xoxo
Boberto Be Baggio, actually the Plague came from Central Asia (most likely Mongolia according to Arab and Chinese records) but spread much quicker in Europe (first through the ports of Italy) because it was more densely populated. Poor hygiene was one of the factors but not the only one.
I was very surprised when he mentioned the moroccans because i'm moroccan. Now i'm addicted to watch all the episodes of the daily show
I think that was Don Jr. performing his rendition of "Papa Can You Hear Me".
He literally just wrote observations on the Chinese. If you were to go to Shanghai today and leave downtown, you would still see people squatting and bathing in barrels. A mix of culture and poverty makes those things happen. It's like if a Chinese journalist got criticized for saying that Americans don't take their shoes off when they go inside. The only remotely racist thing he said was the last part about worrying about the Chinese supplanting the west, but if you just came from the most advanced society in the world and saw poverty everywhere you went, why would you want the impoverished taking over the other society?
waffleabc errr no he did more than observed
+waffleabc
Keeping in mind that he visited war torn post imperial china, such sights wouldn’t be uncommon and would give an outsider ignorant to the situation quite the “damming” visual.
It was a private journal as well. I’m sure even the most politically correct person has random unacceptable thoughts from time to time.
Squat and bath in barrels......what is that?
Oh boy this comments section is gonna get spicy.
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I think she said something like, "Uhbit Unsteen wuz russust un wrut nustee thunks uhbut Chunnuss puhbull..." but it's almost impossible to tell. However, top marks for delivering the entire piece without once unclenching your jaw, lady.
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it's not racist. it's cultural bias
That's how you cure Donny of his F&F addiction.. make Eric a permanent 'Friend' on the couch, and Donny'll lose interest within a week.
Kinda the equivalent of going back to people's old tweets they made a few years back.
I am crushed
You cant judge people who lived a hundred years or more ago by todays standards
snoopdog67 whether he was racist or not, it can't be proven based on what he wrote as racists usually have hubristic egotistic tones and the writing was not enough to show maliced hatred.
Which means black ppl should not talk about Slavery right?
@@michaelsudragor he liked people being polite with everyone but you know Chinese are very hard working people thats why he complimented first but then he said they were mean and yeah actually being business looking makes them a bit mean. They just do their work usually
Thats bs!
Fortunately, US professional race baters are not the people to make this call.
"Would come back to bite him"? This is a private diary. Not intended do be published.
Love you Trevor
"The past is a different country, and they do things differently there."
I forget where I heard that (Google could probably tell you), but basically if you expect history's main characters to have ideas like ours (in terms of race, gender, etc.) I guarantee that you will be disappointed.
The only racist person in this is Trevor Noah. He makes racist "jokes" (actually he is serious) all the time
Oh, Trevor...you really are brilliant... Hahahhaha... You connected it with his theory...
*You say what??
* i said you are being obtused!!!
proceed to solitary confinement
2:45 can we hit 50 likes
All these people who know nothing about Einstein saying 'what did you expect'. I expected him to be consistent with his words. Einstein was famous for fighting against racism.
He probably changed his views in the thirties and fourties through his experiences in Europe. People describe it as if it's impossible for your opinions and beliefs to change over a life-time.
that much i can agree with. Its just surprising since we dont always think of historical figures as a progression and instead treat their life as if it were one moment
I think actions speak louder then words , don't you think ? In the end , he's dead so who cares ? Reading a persons diary is invading their privacy. Maybe he changed his thoughts afterwards maybe not. Maybe he got annoyed by them during his travels who knows ? After all these videos are useless. They create hate for something so small. 'expect him to be consistent with his words' even I'm not consist with my words , who is ? Sometimes I realise that at certain times I was being a hypocrite. You should Idolise the person for his achievements not for his personality. Have a wonderfull day.
i guess he just stated his honest opinion. i don't see him actively discriminating against the chinese though. but anybody who knows a little about him would know he was far from perfect. just thinking about how he was was with his first wife and his children. he was a brilliant physicist and that's all we should care about. after all nobody's perfect
Voshi oh please. Get over yourself and give the dead brilliant guy a break. Nobody is perfect, and nobody ever will be.
jesus christ that rift that opened when you went from Einstein to djtjr was terrifying
If i show my ex-school principal this, I think she'll remove all Einstein pictures from the walls 😂
My "Anglo Chinese School".
If this was the worst thing out of the first half of the 20th century history would have looked very VERY different. This is nothing, but trying to damage the legacy of one of mankind's greatest minds who cant defend himself. If you take something out of context, consider taking the context with you
Really that's it? That's some of the mildest racism I have ever heard.
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There is only one statement that was possibly racist, everything else was cultural observations.
Very nice 😀
did he say space und time...nice
Fermi hated people from Paraguay, I hear. He has reams and reams of hate propaganda about the 'pesky para-doxes!'
"chinese" is not a race though
Han is the race and they make up 90% of China's population with Ughurs, Mongols, Tibetian, etc making up the rest.
Chinese is regarded as a race in Singapore regardless of where they came from, but in China, Chinese is the term for citizens of PRC who are divided among dozens of names that might be geographically segregated because of lineage. I think context and implied meaning of a word is affected by the location/culture the user of the term.
@@gustofzephyr947 i consider them the "sub-races" and the "super-race" to be Chinese
ohhhh.... too soon...
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I'm moroccan, i think I'm okay and Rather flattered 😂
And what is the point of bringing this up now? I hate it when people dig up things like this about people who have passed. Have they not heard about not speaking ill of the dead? It's easy to say things like this and tarnish the name of people who are no longer able to defend themselves. I think bringing up things like this at this time serves no purpose what so ever. Surely, there are more newsworthy stories out there.
He's a famous historical figure, and we're not all brainwashed, whitewashed yanks. It's important to remember the good and the bad, or history will just repeat itself
Steven Brock Steven Brock First off, racism is never 'fine'. Secondly, I'm not the slightest bit outraged by this, and I found that quote thoroughly amusing. I think Einstein is a far more interesting figure because his contradictions and contributions have to be examined in context, and against a historical backdrop. This is about ethnocentricism, which most people as well as almost all western - and especially American - thinkers rewriting history are most assuredly guilty of, even today. I don't hold with any of this politically correct nonsense, but that doesn't mean we should pretend Einstein didn't beat his wife or that it's OK because some daft and supposedly well-meaning idiots want to sanctify him for his scientific intelligence decades after his death. The truth doesn't have to tarnish his reputation if you don't defend it, and you don't have to just because he's dead.
Mary Kelly : He brings it up because Trevor Noah has run out of white people to hate!
Most people are racist to a certain extend. It is how we fight that tendency which will define who we are.
Albert Einstein is good at first writing a hypothesis and then verifying not other way around.
Frankly, by these standards, many Trevor Noah stand-up sketches would be disturbingly offensive. I'm no Einstein lover but he had a long story of opposing discrimination, even if we have some demeaning notes in his journal, the same way Trevor is a spokesperson against many injustices, even if may of his jokes targeted "races" and nationalities.
There's a difference between laughing with the race and laughing at them, which really ties to the context and nuances of the delivery. If Einstein said that these people aren't afraid to be filthy because of how hard working they are then we can make a joke about that and make it race targetted but inoffensive, putting the word "filthy" into context. And that's what Trevor would do in his stand up, back up what might be considered stereotypes with context, specific people, and experiences. He listens to why they are the way they are instead of making shallow assumptions from one common trait for people to laugh at. Because that's what bullies would do, they would target your baggy clothes and call you poor. A friend would listen to the story about how you were in a rush to go to school and wore your big brother's clothes by accident and laugh about how silly you look. A friend can laugh with you and a bully will laugh at you and both don't have the same weight.
But it was true (In the Past). The Chinese Peopel were really bad (poor and unclean) in these Times. There were Invade by Japan and had a Civilwar with the Communist take over and a Famine killing over 30 million
Nope, it's just as disgusting as your English.
Johannes Weger
The filth here is you
Before the cultural revolution, Chinese are still one of the most educated and wealthy country in the world. That is why they make the silk and China which the west has no concept of making, that includes cannon and guns. I don't blame you as west don't often talk about the history of China, and rarely does the Chinese learn the Real History of China. Einstein visited Shanghai in 1923, that is pre revolution period, Shanghai was a free trade port, meaning it i was over run by westerner and are pretty discriminated by the Wealthy Chinese local.
I’m a chinese and i know what you said kinda true, chinese during that time wasn’t pretty. But we have progress much now. When we have more resources, we should not forget the old time, and help those unfortunate
Cedric P. Im 16 and Italian. Im sooo sorry for not speaking your Language perfectly.
Got to judge people in the context of their time.
I've read somewhere that many contemporary Chinese happen to agree with ole Albert.
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You cannot apply current PC standards to historical events. The best you can do is hope to learn from them.
Amazing XD
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It's not racist if you visited China in the 1920s. It's just not what you expect. Sanitary conditions were really appalling. Einstein was a scientist and merely recorded his observations. I'm Chinese by the way.
His theory helped create the nuclear bomb.
Death and destruction yeah!!!
As did Newton's, as did Euclid's...
and your point is....?
Voice of Reason With that logic you should accuse Newton for gravity, as gravity is used to drop bombs on cities.
Joke's on you, Trevor, the one person in history I know I can always admire is Fred Rogers.
After a century, this is not a fair comparison. Even a couple of decades ago, many things were norms which will be quite offensive today.
2:07 There's a line and you crossed it. Don't make fun of Stephen Hawking.
For all those defending Einstein in the comments...do you defend Nazis too? After all, it was back then too. So perfectly "normal" behaviour for the times, right? Words precede actions, people.
They all were like that.
Search “mainland Chinese manners”
Nah he's not racist. I am a Chinese and I can confirm what Einstein said was true.
Well, he was born in that Germany and growed up with Germans too.
Just saying
Just a heads up this video came out on the same day as Hawking's funeral
Well, I get to see my dad once every two years and he's not even the president.
Einstein, wasn't racist to be exactly, he talked about Chinese people and not about Asians as a whole, so...he was at "best" discriminatory or "Chinaphob"???
Qwokka Asians aren't a race though. The closest thing to a "race" would be Han Chinese
Yung Tankie
If you want to go technically, the "human" race is a race and everything else is just culture.
Qwokka ethnic groups to be precise.
He said bad things about other races too. Just read the article.
Qwokka why do you people keep using phobe, a phobia is an irrational fear, it doesn't work in this context, it doesn't even work with Islam as that's not irrational
Einstein is human too.
So?
One would assume that if Tiny Hands Jr. really wanted to see his father at any time, he'd just go to Mar-a-Lago...unless he's banned...which he just might be.
A cited written word without a timestamp and correlating information is like looking at 3D from 2D.
In later years of his life Einstein changed his positions and views.