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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Stupidity about intelligence (or genetics)
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 16:50:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 16:50:34 1987
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> In article <1651@kontron.UUCP>, cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> 
> * We learned that humans have 46 chromosomes.  We learned about chromosomal
> * abnormalities like Down's Syndrome, and Klinefelter's males.  But we
> * didn't learn about a population where HALF of the study group were not
> * 46 chromosomes.
> 
> * I'm beginning to wonder how much high school science classes are tailored
> * for political reasons.
> 
> * Clayton E. Cramer
> 
> While the last statement tantalizingly lets the individual imagination
> run wild, and while I would be the last to dispute that high school texts
> have been subject to severe content emasculation (mostly by the Texas
> School Textbook Commission, or whatever its formal name is), I wonder
> if Mr. Cramer might detail what "political reasons" he attributes to
> this presumed deliberate witholding of information from him?
> 
> Dennis Yarak

Racial difference doesn't mean racial inferiority -- but because studies
of racial difference have frequently been used by various jerks promoting
such attitudes, it seems as though the legitimate scientific study of
human populations has been marked "unclean" by the left.

If you want to argue that the population isn't smart enough to be taught
things the way they are without drawing the wrong conclusions, fine.  
But don't tell me the population is then smart enough to have unlimited 
governing authority.

And worst of all, pretending that racial difference doesn't exist 
suggests that who are doing the pretending have at some level accepted
the idea of "racial difference == racial inferiority".

Clayton E. Cramer