If you look at it from a Darwinist perspective, you have to ask, what other animal is covering up their body?
This argument was derived from earlier eugenicist and Social Darwinist ideas.
Commerce, however, injects a sense of fairness and egalitarianism into this darwinist scheme.
The removal of part-Aboriginal children was advocated on the social Darwinist grounds that their full-blooded relatives were dying out.
But, in any case, nobody can be so blind as not to have noticed the dominating power of the Darwinist paradigm, so much so that, from the very outset, its opponents are doomed to fight a losing battle.
By not singling out the French, he heretically suggested that most people try to get along with the boot boys as a matter of Darwinist expedience, however stupid it may be, and then, weirdly, it becomes a passion.