these allegations about Darwin from Quora:

“Was Charles Darwin racist?

It is interesting: Charles Darwin is mostly remembered for his theory of evolution, even though it wasn’t a new theory, and it wasn’t really his. But that is what he is famous for.

But what hardly anyone remembers Darwin for is that he was one of the first scientists who ever broke ranks over the idea of natural superiority of white males. One of the weirder things about nineteenth century natural scientists was that they all had a kind of blinkered conditioning to see white people as inherently superior to all other races. And they frequently ignored or rationalised all evidence to the contrary.

Thirteen years after he published Origin of the Species, Darwin published a much less famous book: The Expressions of Emotion in Man and Animals. And in that book Darwin noted that all people – irrespective of race or culture – used the same sort of facial expressions to convey emotion. Now that doesn’t sound much today, but this was really the first time anyone had seriously expressed the view that human beings were much the same, regardless of race. The idea that all humans shared a common heritage was pretty revolutionary back in 1872.

By the standards of the day, Darwin was woke.”