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In the early part of the twentieth century, almost everybody in [[Britain]]... would be judged racist by today's standards.  Most white people believed that black people... were inferior to white people in almost all respects except --- patronizingly --- sense of rhythm.  The 1920s equivalent of James Bond was... Bulldog Drummond.  In one novel, ''The Black Gang'', Drummond refers to "Jews, foreigners, and other unwashed folk."  In... ''The Female of the Species'', Drummond is cleverly disguised as Pedro, black servant of the archvillain.  For his dramatic disclosure... that "Pedro" is really Drummond himself... he chose these words:  "Every beard is not false, but every nigger smells.  That beard ain't false, dearie, and dis nigger don't smell [...]"... I read it... three decades after it was written, and it was (just) still possible for a boy to thrill to the drama and not notice the racism.  Nowadays, it would be inconceivable.

"In the early part of the twentieth century, almost everybody in [[Britain]]... would be judged racist by today's standards.  Most white people believed that black people... were inferior to white people in almost all respects except --- patronizingly --- sense of rhythm.  The 1920s equivalent of James Bond was... Bulldog Drummond.  In one novel, ''The Black Gang'', Drummond refers to "Jews, foreigners, and other unwashed folk."  In... ''The Female of the Species'', Drummond is cleverly disguised as Pedro, black servant of the archvillain.  For his dramatic disclosure... that "Pedro" is really Drummond himself... he chose these words:  "Every beard is not false, but every nigger smells.  That beard ain't false, dearie, and dis nigger don't smell [...]"... I read it... three decades after it was written, and it was (just) still possible for a boy to thrill to the drama and not notice the racism.  Nowadays, it would be inconceivable." <ref>Dawkins, Richard, "The God Delusion", Houghton Mifflin, 2006, pp. 265-266

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The moral zeitgeist is thus compatible with [[moral realism]]. Atheist and secular humanist Richard Carrier, a defender of moral realism, writes

The moral zeitgeist is thus compatible with [[moral realism]]. Atheist and secular humanist Richard Carrier, a defender of moral realism, writes

"Thus we can explain all moral controversy and progress. For when we try to argue that someone is wrong about a moral proposition we always find ourselves arguing in either of two ways: either we point out how their understanding of the facts is wrong, or we point out how they have deduced the incorrect values from the actual facts. Both can be valid arguments. For instance, we tell the Nazi that his beliefs, like that Jews are not human beings and that they are plotting to take over the world, are factually false, and therefore his morals regarding the Jews are in error"<ref> Carrier, Richard, "Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, AuthorHouse, pp. 336-337 2005</ref>

<blockquote>"Thus we can explain all moral controversy and progress. For when we try to argue that someone is wrong about a moral proposition we always find ourselves arguing in either of two ways: either we point out how their understanding of the facts is wrong, or we point out how they have deduced the incorrect values from the actual facts. Both can be valid arguments. For instance, we tell the Nazi that his beliefs, like that Jews are not human beings and that they are plotting to take over the world, are factually false, and therefore his morals regarding the Jews are in error"<ref> Carrier, Richard, "Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, AuthorHouse, pp. 336-337 2005</ref></blockquote>

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