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Re: Bell-curve racism for nations by Sabri Oncu 07 March 2002 19:50 UTC |
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My Friend, Tell this Rushton guy that there is a Turkish man with a low IQ on WSN who wanted to send his best wishes to him. Sabri -----Original Message----- From: wsn-owner@csf.colorado.edu [mailto:wsn-owner@csf.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of Jonathan Davis Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:59 AM To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu; psn@csf.colorado.edu; rpa-list@southwestern.edu; marxism@lists.panix.com; Louis Proyect Cc: upstream-list@cycad.com; rushton@uwo.ca Subject: Re: Bell-curve racism for nations Perhaps you would like to attack the arguments rather than the man, Louise? Preventative defamation makes you appear scared of Mr Rushton. It makes me think that you are incapable of attacking his arguments. I think you owe it to Mr Rushton and the rest of us to explain why you think he is a racist and upon what evidence your claims rest. Perhaps you imagine that you are preaching to the converted with these dispatches to your intellectual clade, so the defamation of your common enemies (like Rushton) is permissible and even encouraged? I have great respect for some of your work but I am appalled to see this sort of e-mail from you. It appeals to base, anti-academic sentiments of orthodoxy and censorship. That mock disbelieving "What's next? Academic articles and books arguing for eugenics?" made me cringe reading it. Are you afraid of intellectual enquiry? Is there anything wrong with *arguing* for a given thing? Are you not aware that there is large and growing interest is de facto Eugenics - Transhumansism, extropianism, etc. This is a wholly legitimate field of scientific interest. That this field terrifies you (as it triggers associations with Nazi's) is your problem. Science is moving on. You can no more stop it with orthodoxy than two million priests can pray the Sun around the Earth. I look forward to your analysis of Mr Rushton's essay. Regards Jonathan Davis P.S. I think you meant British National Party or Scottish National Party as there is no National Party that exists as a legal political party in the UK.
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