Why Sapiens Is A Hate Crime

Yuval Noah Harari has written the White Man’s Burden for atheist tech fuckbois

American Progress by John Gast—“Called “Spirit of the Frontier” and widely distributed as an engraving portrayed settlers moving west, guided and protected by Columbia (who represents America and is dressed in a Roman toga to represent classical republicanism) and aided by technology (Railroads), driving Native Americans and bison into obscurity. The technology shown in the picture is used to represent the outburst of innovation and invention of modern technology. It is also important to note that Columbia is bringing the “light” as witnessed on the eastern side of the paintings she travels towards the “darkened” west.”

I love prehistory, history, and future speculation, so I started Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens with great joy. This quickly turned to trepidation, then anger, then rage. Sapiens is a hate crime, a modern work of colonial apologia, and just dismally, dismally wrong. But don’t take my word for it.

Here are the worst things from Sapiens, which I have hate-highlighted for your perusal, along with texts from other people showing why Harari is an imperialist dolt, an intellectual dilettante, and a pernicious tool.

“When They Become Us”

In each section except the last I’ll use Harari’s actual headlines. He actually calls a section ‘When They Become Us, with the ‘Us’ being white people and the people they colonized. We are apparently still doing this. As Rudyard Kipling put it, “Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.”

Harari says that western colonizers should get credit for inventing the human rights and self-determination they so thoroughly defiled. He said colored people were not even capable of understanding freedom until white people A) took it away for 400 years and then B) coincidentally invented it as they were being kicked out.