Humanity First! Racism for the 22nd Century, Now!
Channel: Professor McCoige
Date: 2020-11-16

Modern humanism has a problem with its philosophical basis which I argue makes it ultimately indistinguishable from racism and other forms of chauvinism. What is humanism in the context of other non-human civilizations (i.e. "aliens" or hetero sapiens)? Mass Effect and other science fiction stories help to illustrate these problems in this video. 

Related Materials: 
My Philosophy of Mass Effect playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3sERPPxxSv-JezaHr5ly4hnzR1YxFvPI
My lecture on Aristotle's concept of the soul, and how to differentiate organisms and species: https://youtu.be/cbphPK_TH_I
A natural law exercise considering the same issues in the same sci-fi setting: https://professormccoige.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/can-a-good-christian-do-it-with-an-alien/
Another parody example of the kind of "humanism" I'm point out, from Generation Films: https://youtu.be/9sIJsxJN2_M

Included Materials:
Macron's speech: https://youtu.be/_JwrRXozCXA
Bill Nye clip: https://youtu.be/pS-bRau2k2o