Counter-Currents
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When we think of martyrs of race realism, the people whose lives and livelihoods were destroyed for promoting race realism, we naturally tend to think of academics and political commentators. James Watson, discoverer of DNA, was unpersoned and rendered unemployable for saying that Africans were less intelligent than other races. John Derbyshire, once a fan favorite among National Review readers, was expelled from Con Inc for his 2012 Takimag article “The Talk: Nonblack Version” in which he dropped a barrage of unpleasant yet undeniable facts about blacks.
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There was an episode of My Name Is Earl back in 2007 where Earl was talking about his two sons being different colors when he dropped this gem….
”You know what’s crazy? The white one is the better athlete and the black one is a little genius.(shrugs) Taught me somethin’.”
Hard to imagine that getting past the network censors these days.
The Greek was the kind of gambler I’d ask who he liked then bet on the other team.
This can be counted as an early instance of cancel culture. He did have a point about some parts of it. With the Olympics as an example, Blacks (especially Kenyans) excel hands down at track and field. Meanwhile, Whites dominate weightlifting. Whites and Asians are about even as the top gymnastics contenders. Finally, Campanis had a point; Blacks don’t do too well at swimming. (I heard of a USMC drill instructor who made a similar point, way back in the days when you could still have a career after observing that Blacks tend to sink.) However, Jimmy the Greek was wrong about selective breeding. It didn’t work that way, and furthermore that’s the sort of thing that lying putz Howard Zinn would’ve said.
A great article and what a fascinating character. Being on the this side of the pond, I only ever heard his name mentioned in passing. It all comes together with this piece. Facts don’t count anymore as listed above and have demonstrably gotten much worse. Women with cocks and tits with the added placeholders of beard and blue hair, anyone?
I wonder how Charles Murray’s ‘Facing Reality – two truths about race in America’ would fair now, how it would be viewed. In that, he claims that whites are above IQ on certain aspects but certainly, Asians (sub-continental Indians, as we refer in the UK) do out perform all groups in certain aspects. Hence the law suit against Harvard.
To quote the back cover of the book by Charles Murray, “I decided to write this book in the summer of 2020 because of my dismay at the disconnect between the rhetoric about ‘systemic racism’ and the facts. The uncritical acceptance of the narrative by the nations elite news media amounted to an unwillingness to face reality. By facts, I mean what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan meant: ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.’ By reality, I mean what science fiction novelist Philip Dick meant: ‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.'”
Frightening to think this was only 3 years ago.
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