RE: REVIEWS: The Bell Curve

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 19:53:59 MDT


At 11:49 AM 9/23/02 -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>This behavior of blacks in the US and aboriginals in Australia cannot
>be solely or even mainly attributed to white racism, since other
>minority groups that suffer from racist attitudes among white
>supremacists, particulary jews and asians, do not engage in such crime

WHAT!? Magical thinking on the extrope list?

"It *is* their skin color genes, your honor, nothing more, just makes some
of them *bad to the bone*!"

Sorry, Mike, this has to be about the most ahistorical and absurd claim
I've seen posted on the list since... well, never mind.

Damien Broderick



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