I really get it, Watson's comment about Africa, blacks. Gays can be aborted if we know our kid's gay gene or may turn to be gay was what he said long-time ago, but uproar never happened. Being anti-gay for Watson was OK, but NOW...we say he crossed the line!
What line?
This is long, follow me....Plus, change "our" to which ever group U want, and "their" to any other group. And see where that will take you.
"all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really."
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As most of you have heard already, what one of the greats, a man I have admired and followed since my high school days, have now told the Sunday Times that he knows what his findings or science as a whole couldn't, can't tell us. If green is better then blue? That being white means U are intelligent than others. Good God, I thought Pseudo-science has long dead.
Let me put this the most simplest form even children will understand....
If being intelligent means,
Being democratic.
Being white.
being advanced.
Being rich(Richard Lynn, correlation between average IQ and wealth and that, per capita gross domestic product dictates IQ).
Being educated.
Being world power.
Being from Europe.
Being the co-discoverer of DNA structure, a molecular biologist and not the old world of the Afrosan, the discoverers of cultivation, farming, and harvest in the Nile.
Being, British, white American, German.
And not...
Being poor(A variable of low IQ score)
Being black.
Being under dictators(civil wars, being dark ages, which is his eyes, European dark ages wasn't due to lack of intelligence).
Being the "Other".
Being gay(I wish he had said, aborting girls could be an option, and just watch the reaction).
Being under femine.
Being Congo slave and not the King Leapold and his skull seeking scientists who waged horror show on Africans and said, the size of the skull would tell us about intelligence.
Let us follow this logic little bit...and see if Watson can answer which group was better, more intelligent? Although, he would say this is not what he's saying. And I will make it more simple.
Tell Me Mr. Watson.....
How intelligent were the Egyptians of old, the builder vs Pharaoh? What about the old world? Those of China and Africa? What about the Greek and the non-Greek? Greece that run over others around the Aegean Sea? What about Hector vs Achiles? What about the Romans who run over the Greeks? What about those who converted to Christianity and others? What about the Judiasm? More Intelligent or less? What about Islam? Those who run over the old world order and turned Byzantium to nothing? Where they more intelligent vs those who they defeated? What about the Mughals? The rulers who built the great empires miles and miles off their lands, and builders of world wonders? What about the slave vs the slave-holder, both in old Greece and the new world? What about the middle ages, that of Spain, Portugal? Who claimed to have found lands of others were old civilizations existed? What about the the empire that kicked their arses in the high-seas? That of Britain. What about the country which the wingnuts and American Right hate the most, France; the people and the land that gave us today's ideals of freedom and pursuit of happiness? What about the Russian empires, who ones where held to be back-water nation, the dark slavs? What about the Ottoms? Yes that one, that has been in the news lately. The one went as far as to Austria. What about Hitler, his Aryan notion? Hitler vs Polish? His sites on Aryan reproduction in Norway? Creation of pure race? How intelligent was that? What about us, the greatest empire to ever seen a light? Most powerful ever.
As one can see, all are different periods, races, world order.....and the good thing is that each had their day. Now, Watson. Do tell us, which one was more intelligent, since Science can't help us here?
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