The University of Delaware's mandatory class that teaches that all whites in America are racists is the sort of "science" that only a social scientist could respect. If there is one thing about the so-called social sciences that damningly reveals their tenuous connection to real science, it is the fact that they do not allow observation to get in the way of the hypothesis. According to real scientific procedure, one counter-example is sufficient to tear down an entire hypothesis and require the one making the hypothesis to go back to the drawing board. How many times has a sociologist or political scientist admitted that their left-wing, politically correct bias might be similarly faulty and reevaluated their own hypotheses?
Just going on the sheer number of such people who are devoted to
these pathological and unfounded worldview, not many. The bulk of the
work done here is little more than after-the-fact justification for
pre-existing biases and beliefs, not honest scientific inquiry. There
is a lot of room for quasi-scientific work in these professions. There
is a lot of room for honest gathering of raw data to do some spot
checking on the health of society, and maybe figure out ways to make some
things work better. Nothing involving the human heart will be able to
fall into that, however. We can have a reasonable guess as to how many
crimes committed are motivated primarily on racism, but never know how
many people have a deep-seated hatred for others based on their being
of a different race.
What we do know is that these self-styled scientists are among the sort of men and women today who commit very real intellectual violence against real science in the name of their pseudo-science. There is a delicious irony that their ideological peers brutalized one of the biologists who discovered the dual-helix nature of DNA simply because he expressed an educated opinion that runs contrary to what they believe to be true. Whether Watson is correct or not is beside the point; their actions reveal how disconnected they are from honest inquiry into the world. The professors who run the University of Delaware's mandatory class on racism are the same sort of vermin who shut down Watson before he could even explain himself and reason with others about why his hypothesis might be valid.
Couldn't agree more about UDe: I think that the late 70s called and want their marxist liberation theory back.
Regarding Watson, I do think he would have been better served to have had some data behind what he was saying rather than speculating. Yes, it's bad that politically incorrect speculation is smacked down, but it isn't terribly surprising (after all, that IS what politically incorrect means right?)
I'd say that folks should be careful in what they say - if you've got a contrarian opinion on something, it's worth making sure you don't have a sign error or something like it...
I really don't care what they think. I mean, it's Delaware, for crying out loud. If not for George Thorogood and the Destroyers, the state might as well not exist.
And anyway, if leftists aren't calling you a racist, then you know you're not getting to them.
Couldn't agree more about UDe: I think that the late 70s called and want their marxist liberation theory back-thegameiam
Don't just take Game's word for it,
I mean, it's Delaware, for crying out loud.-Triton
From the NEw State Mottos:
All deconstruction is grounded in Hegel's dialectic. Hegel's dialectic works by presuming abitrarily that there's adversity between the two parties in question. In this case, it's that whites are racist. This is the independent variable in all their interpretations. After all, black on black violence? White man's fault. 9:1 ratio of black on white violence? White man's fault, duh...
Ahhh the charge of racism. It is the argument equivalent of a military unit, completely, and hopelessly outnumbered and surrounded, trying to call for enough air support to wipe out the enemy.