From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 22:34:09 GMT
DMB:
> 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?
One man's "fascist bigot' is another man's impartial social scientist.
> 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.
Yes, a review right out of the Marxist Red Brigades' politically
correct handbook. :-)
Platt
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