More on the Dawkins fiasco from the London Times-
This means that Dawkins must come from some pretty awesome stock to say they had to go back 270 years in order to find someone truly embarrassing.
Adam Lusher, the guy who wrote the article, argues that the Dawkins estate was purchased by this ancestor, thus giving Dawkins some added responsibility.
The head of the Anglican Church is the queen of England, and she only wishes one had to go that far back to trace an embarrassing source of wealth. She got a fair chunk of wealth from Queen Victoria and the results of the Boer War. I don't think we can really blame her for her ancestor putting people in concentration camps.
In Lusher’s interview with Dawkins he apparently tried to insinuate that there would be something like a slavery supporting gene, saying "Well, some people might suggest that you could have inherited a gene for supporting slavery from Henry Dawkins.”
More here-
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2012/02/21/the-ancestor-s-fail-dawkins-and-the-telegraph
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