“We are writing to inform you that the lecture by Professor James Watson, scheduled for September 12, 2016 has been cancelled. We received the attached letter that had been written by medical and graduate students at NYU School of Medicine to express their feelings regarding the invitation of Dr. Watson for this distinguished lecture. In the letter, the students raised the point that Dr. Watson had made public claims to diminish respect for black, female and obese individuals. We agree with the students that this runs counter to our mission of diversity and inclusion at NYU Langone Medical Center and have thus elected to cancel the lecture.”
Scientist James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and a Nobel Prize winner, says anti-Semitism is justified, in a recent magazine interview.
The ADL called Dr. Watson’s remarks about Jews “disturbing” and is asking Watson to clarify them.
Watson, 78, who lives in Cold Harbor, N.Y., tells Esquire magazine in its January edition that anti-Semitism, in some circumstances, is justified.
In an interview profile for the magazine Watson asks rhetorically, “Should you be allowed to make an anti-Semitic remark?” He answered: “Yes, because some anti-Semitism is justified. Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society.”
Apparently a firm believer in eugenics, Watson also feels “Ashkenazi Jews” – Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities in the area of Germany – have higher intelligence than other people.
“I’ve wondered why people aren’t more intelligent,” Watson says. “Why isn’t everyone as intelligent as Ashkenazi Jews? And it may be that societies work best when there’s a mixture of ability – the bright people would never be an army.”
Watson says his own politics have evolved from the left to libertarianism. He said he “turned against the left wing” because “they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have had bad genes.”Watson complains that the poorer classes are having more children than the richer, more intelligent classes.
“I think now we’re in a terrible sitution where we should pay the rich people to have children.” He says if we don’t encourage procreation of wealthier citizens, IQ levels will most definitely fall.
* In an MA Applied Linguistics program at a well-regarded university I once tried to base a thesis proposal on an analysis of how language is used to promote the elite’s narrative on race/HBD at the expense of scholars like Watson as well as democratic citizenries’ generally by denying them access to information they need to make informed decisions. This approach to linguistic analysis is called critical discourse analysis (CDA). It’s very much like what Sailer has been doing with lefty news articles over the past 20 years. My proposal was flatly rejected without my being given a chance to answer any questions first. I was told in no uncertain terms that CDA could only be used from a leftwing perspective and that Watson was ignorant. CDA has only ever been used from a leftwing perspective, it’s true, and I think the particular professor who expressed this view (and who was from Asia not the West) could not get her head around the idea that right-wing perspectives can also encompass discriminatory perspectives. Ah well.
* Ah, yes. An auto-da-fe of the 21st century Leftist Inquisition. Watson, discoverer of DNA, thrown out of a medical school for comments nearly a decade old that contradict the official dogma of the Diversity Cult.
The Age of Enlightenment is dead, people. The scientific method has been subordinated to the neo-communist religion of the Left.
Next time you hear some lefty criticizing the Medieval Church for the Inquisition or the treatment of Galileo, laugh in his face. Next time you hear some lefty like Obama piously claim the authority of “science,” or denounce the Republicans as “anti-scientific,” you should be rolling on the floor with spasms of uncontrollable, hysterical laughter.
* Even if he engages in crimethought, he also repents earnestly.
Towards the end of Social Conquest of Earth, Wilson concludes that religion is a mechanism of tribal cohesion. Then he goes on to hope that we can all just forget about religions and our tribal past — without jettisoning all their great literature! — to embrace a one-big-happy-race world.
But he put that Noble Hope at the end of a book that argues that our very nature is to compete as groups and within groups, that the moral angst of the duel loyalty is the physiological struggle manifested in millennia of great art.
But we can change!
* Why allow any old white-privileged racist male (with his structurally racist thoughts and structurally racist mind) to sully the consciousness of those young geniuses comprising today’s affirmative-action mobs?
What would a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered DNA’s double helix even bring to the discussion? Come on. It’s the Current Year!
James Watson should just quit the hard sciences (so racist!) and just voluntary submit himself now to be brainwashed with the august scholarship and anti-racist Marxism of Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Critical Race Theory co-founder and promoter of ‘intersectionality’. It’s all he really needs to know, anyway.
* “Jacobson added, “Obviously, the impact of anti-Semitism through the century has been devastating to Jews”
I don’t mean to be indifferent to the suffering of Jews who were murdered in WW2 or their descendants who live with the nightmares of those events, but this argument is, if not debatable, then as least subject to qualification.
An aspergerian or autistic could argue that because of severe selective pressure, the Jewish genome has benefitted from the most ruthless culling of any in the world today. Where else did that high IQ come from if not from the fact that most of the Jews who could afford to emigrate before WW2 came from the most talented, wealthiest class and they brought their smarts with them.
But Jacobson doesn’t believe in the possibility for any genetic basis for intelligence to begin with, so this argument wouldn’t offer any consoling, redeeming or explanatory value for him.
* James Watson is still honored in Russia. Last summer he went to Russia, where he was given back his Nobel medal by the tycoon who had bought it, and was received with lots of public acclaim.
