Posted on 01/04/2019 6:27:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks hes right, a new documentary finds.
It has been more than a decade since James D. Watson, a founder of modern genetics, landed in a kind of professional exile by suggesting that black people are intrinsically less intelligent than whites.
In 2007, Dr. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, told a British journalist that he was inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says, not really.
Moreover, he added, although he wished everyone were equal, people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.
Dr. Watsons comments reverberated around the world, and he was forced to retire from his job as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, although he retains an office there.
He apologized publicly and unreservedly, and in later interviews he sometimes suggested that he had been playing the provocateur his trademark role or had not understood that his comments would be made public.
Ever since, Dr. Watson, 90, has been largely absent from the public eye. His speaking invitations evaporated. In 2014, he became the first living Nobelist to sell his medal, citing a depleted income from having been designated a nonperson.
But his remarks have lingered. They have been invoked to support white supremacist views, and scientists routinely excoriate Dr. Watson when his name surfaces on social media.
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Biological gender is a binary thing, but I agree that sexuality is on a spectrum.
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scientifically speaking
biological SEX is binary and sexual expression is on a spectrum...
Gender is not a scientific term. It is a linguistic term.
Ultimately it feeds the holy grail of dismissing any and all white accomplishments and western civilization as a fluke or theft from non whites
Its just all bullshit"
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You are so right.
https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html
THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963
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Just a small part of it.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
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(Im sure that you have been aware of this for decades, but I put it up here for others.)
I agree that African and Caribbean blacks often stand head and shoulders above American blacks, but the fact is they don’t have any real successful states/countries; even they have to flee to a “white” country (here or in Europe).
The real problem with these finding by Watson, and I suspect the real issue with their release, is what to do with people who will never catch up. How would you react if you knew that most people who didn’t look like you were far better educated and disciplined, and would have a better lifestyle as a result? We see the answer in every major city in this country, and in the policies the representatives of those people push: They have given up trying, and just want high-paying makework jobs (initially in government, now required of companies as well). Assimilation failed completely, now we’re just fabricating an illusion of successful integration (but all involved know better).
Employers and schools are not allowed to treat members of protected minorities as individuals.
The government currently asserts that any disparity in results which negatively affects protected minorities, is evidence of discrimination, which MUST be remedied through affirmative action and other measures, or the "discriminating" entity will face legal consequences.
On the subject of "Cultural Capital", a few decades ago the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study looked at children with black biological parents who were adopted into affluent white families. The kids grew up in middle class white culture, went to good middle-class schools, had all the advantages of white kids, since babyhood.
IQ tests administered at 17 showed the black kids with an average IQ of 89.
Louis CK learned the hardway that once you apologize to SJWs and grovel, you have to be ideologically pure or else they tear you down again.
Go woke, go broke, and they never let you go.
I haven't a clue. Found it on the Internet.
I remember when it came out. Still not sure what I believe. I worked with a lot of black folks. Some bright some not. But many had other qualities. Honor courage humor family values. Punts for something. Were in a pc age where you cant make a simple factual statement I wonder what top universities think about iq tests
Very interesting. That suggests environment is more determinative than genetics.
There is a lot of evidence that its a cultural effect. And who had a BIG hand in creating present-day African-American culture? White liberals and other well-meaning democrats. Liberals hate this type of discussion because close examination of the problem will reveal this.
From personal experience as well as from what Ive read, actual African people from Africa think a lot of America - US African-American culture...not so much.
Yep that too
Also studies of Irish recruits into the military show very low IQs at the turn of the 20th century. . Combination IMHO of excellent private schooling, attrition, have led the Irish to to be the third top earning group in the US,
Are we living on the plains of Ahfreekah?
I must have missed that!
For example, no one ever sat in a class room, where the person on either side was their equal. Some are better at one thing, some at another; some have one type of motivation; some another. Some people have many strengths; some many weaknesses; etc., etc...
The need to pretend to an equality among individuals or definable groups is evidence not of wisdom, but of compulsion. And it serves the interests of no one but grievance mongers & other demagogues. You are also completely correct that egalitarianism has repeatedly--not just with the poor Tutsis, but repeatedly--led to genocide against high achieving groups.
Here are some Chapters from my Conservative Debate Handbook, which are particularly relevant:
How The Left Keeps Minorities Dependent;
Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.
Here are some other articles, which put the subject into the context of an ignored reality, and which explore the terrible damage & injustice being done to everyone but the Demagogues & Grievance Mongers, including those the egalitarian theorists pretend to be helping:
Correct. There are three genders, as anyone who took Latin knows: masculine, feminine, neuter.
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