From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 21:26:00 GMT
Platt and all:
Platt said:
In his new book, "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in
the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950," Charles Murray concludes that
a whopping 72 percent of the significant figures in the arts and
sciences came from just four European countries: Britain, France,
Germany and Italy. However, the rate of achievement in these countries
appeared to plummet in the mid-19th century due to a collapse of social
values and the advent of nihilism. When Christianity began to lose its
appeal, things began to go downhill...
dmb says:
Charles Murray? Thee Charles Murray? The fascist bigot of "Bell Curve" fame?
Here's what one reviewer, David Lethbridge, said about this previous book...
And that, fundamentally, is the crucial point about The Bell Curve. The
function of science is to reveal the truth, and all science worthy of the
name serves the people as it serves the truth. What Murray and Herrnstein
have done is the opposite of science. They have assembled a body of work by
racists and fascists whose function is to promote racial hatred and class
exploitation, by ideologues so committed to racialism that every difference
noted between ethnic groups within racist societies, such as the US and
South Africa during apartheid, is almost automatically attributed to alleged
biological inferiority rather than racial exclusion, enforced poverty, mass
unemployment, poor education, and the many other forms of ruling class
ideology and oppression.
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