Talk:Amity–enmity complex

This article should be deleted
The man that coined that term, Sir Arthur Keith, was involved in scientific racism, and was a proponent of the Piltdown Man hoax. This article claims that different races of people are inherently hostile to people of other races, and that the culprit is Darwinian evolution. Most other sources on this topic reference back to the original Wikipedia article, and the vast majority of scientists consider race to be socially constructed. This is clear pseudoscience, and this article should be deleted, because it is factually incorrect, and even outright racist.Udihgi (talk) 01:52, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Keith may or may not have been a bad man. That is nit an argument in favour of deletion. If it were, Wikipedia would have to delete all information about Hitler, Stalin, Jack the Ripper, etc, etc. Please be sensible. The article does NOT claim that all races are 'inherently hostile'. That is the claim that Keith made. The article makes reference to many other texts in addition to Keith's work.

Most scientists agree that races are a product of evolution by natural selection. They are not a 'social construct'. The amity - enmity theory may or may not be pseudoscience. That is not a reason for deletion as pseudosciences are included in Wikipedia. Please specify which areas you think are'factually incorrect'? Which are'racist'? If you seriously believe there is racism involved in reporting allegedly racist views from 2 centuries ago, i suggest you complain to the police, race relations, etc.  Crawiki (talk) 09:45, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

However, if you know of acceptable sources for your claim that 'race is a social construct', go ahead and add them to the article, under a new subheading, 'objections to the theory'. Crawiki (talk) 10:01, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Also please read WP:NOT, section on censorship, first, before advocating deletion. Crawiki (talk) 10:16, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Objections to the theory

Here are my sources: Udihgi (talk) 06:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

The subject of this article is the amity-enmity complex. Do any of these sources make reference to that topic? If not, this looks like WP:OR Crawiki (talk) 10:03, 2 April 2019 (UTC)