From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 13:27:52 BST
Hi All:
> Horse asked:
> Considering Vogels posts and his alliance with cosmotheism I think it is
> quite reasonable to label him as a racist. Considering that racism is
> prejudice and/or bigotry based on skin colour could you point out any
> instances where this applies to Platt.
>
> dmb replies:
> Sure. And if I hadn't just cleaned out my e-mail box, I'd provide snippets,
> quotes and such. In any case, the two examples that leap to mind would be
> Platt's advocacy of E.O. Wilson, who has been accused by many of his
> critics and who in fact "sponsored" Rushton for publication in an article.
> There is his advocacy of the Bell Curve. The connections between that book
> and Vogel's friends down at the Pioneer fund have already been well
> detailed by Mark Heyman. Less recently he's pushed Charles Murray's other
> book, "Human Accomplishment", which also tries to show the innate
> superiority of white culture. In fact the very research method used for
> that book, historiometry, was first brought in vogue by a 19th century
> eugenicist.
>
> And that's just the Plattisms I can recall off the top of my head. No, I'm
> not just hurling insults. I'm trying to expose bogus views as such. If I
> seem a little too eager to attack Platt's racist mentors its only because
> the "ideas" they espouse are so very dangerous. At the risk of seeming to
> be overly dramatic, I'd like to remind you that millions have been murdered
> over these kinds of racist views - and it's very likely that some more will
> be murdered today.
Is DMB suggesting that Horse censor "dangerous ideas" from this site?
Perhaps a few cautions are in order:
"Censorship always protects and perpetuates every horror of the prevailing
forms of oppression. With us, its subtle disguises increase its evils by
creating delusions of safety, liberty and democracy. It precludes that
intelligence which is necessary to hasten wholesome and natural social
evolution." -- Theodore Schroeder
"Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow
protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for
the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely
because it offends the moral code of the censor." -- William O. Douglas
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
Best,
Platt
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