And a previous post on the racist, Pioneer Fund, funders of Prop. 187. Sent Tim Wise a copy of the post disputing him. Michael Pugliese ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Message: 12 Reply-To: "Louis Andrews" <LRA at lrainc.com> From: "Louis Andrews" <LRA at lrainc.com> To: "Upstream List" <upstream-list at cycad.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 08:34:54 -0400 charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: [Upstream] Richard Lynn
The second of two new books by Richard Lynn has just been released and may be of interest to some list members.
_The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund_, Richard Lynn, University Press of America, 2001 ISBN: 0-7618-2040 With an introduction by Harry F. Weyher, President, The Pioneer Fund.
Lynn discusses the origins and founding of the PF, then offers individual vignettes of many of the directors (A chapter each for the more important ones), as well as similar vignettes on many of the scientists who have been funded by them. The volume includes pictures of many of the people in both categories and is well edited.
His earlier book released last month was _Eugenics: A Reappraisal_, Praeger, 2001. A terrific book that looks at the past, present, and future of eugenics in both free and authoritarian countries. This volume is also very well written and edited.
Louis Andrews Stalking the Wild Taboo http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/
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Message: 13 From: "Ken Hirsch" <kenhirsch at myself.com> To: <upstream-list at cycad.com> Subject: Re: [Upstream] Are white kids more violent? Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:23:26 -0400 charset="iso-8859-1"
The original essay by Tim Wise is available several places on the net, e. g. http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/african/Article_Detail.asp?Article_ID=36 06
The surveys he draws his statistics from are the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (http://www.samhsa.gov/oas/p0000016.htm) and the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4905a1.htm).
Note that some of the links on the SAMHSA page are bad, but it's easy to figure out what they should be-- the 1998 main findings are http://www.samhsa.gov/oas/nhsda/98MF.pdf
----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy A. Smith" <timsmit at mac.com> To: <upstream-list at cycad.com> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: RE: [Upstream] Are white kids more violent?
> First, what I found humorous is that she cited the below statistics
> to show that whites were more violent, when they in no way support
> the contention. In fact, nothing in the article in any way supported
> the original claim.
>
> But, since blacks are far more likely to drop out of school or be
> incarcerated as a juvenile, and since it is likely that only a very
> small percentage of teenagers actually go to high school while
> maintaining a crack habit, it might follow that they would be the
> high school students with money. But given the logic of the article,
> I suspect the figures are complete fabrications, except for LSD.
>
> Tim Smith
>
> >Timothy A. Smith forwarded this story:
> >
> >> http://www.msnbc.com/news/556952.asp#TOP
> >which includes the following lines:
> >
> >***************
> >White high school students are:
> >
> > Seven times more likely than Blacks to have used cocaine
> > Eight times more likely to have smoked crack
> > Ten times more likely to have used LSD
> > Seven times more likely to have used heroin.
> >***************
> >
> >Below are figures from the "Human Rights Watch" website, in an article
> >which expresses alarm over the black-white discrepancy of arrestees and
> >jailees, and which specifically deals with the black-white discrepancy
> >in drug arrests and incarcerations, but even this site admits that the
> >rate of illicit drug use is *higher* among blacks than whites [by 22%],
> >so something is seriously amiss with the figures above. They are
> >implausible. At best they appear to represent total numbers and not per
> >capita rates of use, but why is the white-black ratio for "crack" higher
> >than for cocaine?
> >Albert Himoe
> >
> >
http://hrw.org/hrw/reports/1996/Us2.htm
> >In an equitable criminal justice system, we would expect that racial
> >proportions in arrest rates for possession would resemble racial
> >proportions in drug use.22 In Georgia, however, we find a startling
> >discrepancy. Using the most recent national rates for current illicit
> >drug use, we estimate that in 1994, for example, at least 7,300 black
> >Georgians per 100,000 were current users of illicit drugs compared to
> >6,000 whites per 100,000.23 Thus blacks apparently use drugs at a rate
> >about 20 percent higher than whites. Yet blacks were arrested for
> >possession of illicit drugs at a proportional rate that was 500 percent
> >greater than whites.
> >
> >
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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 06:06:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Premise Checker <checker at clark.net>
Subject: [Upstream] Seligman on NYT "Race" Pulitzer-Winning Snoozerama
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/0108/DSeligman.htm COMMENTARY MAGAZINE, 2001.8 How Race Is Written in America by Dan Seligman <snip> http://www.google.com/search?q=Dan+Seligman+lbo-talk&hl=en&safe=off&filter=0 ... Race and math scores (was: Seligman on intelligence) Marco Anglesio ... & Minorities, was Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #3698 Adam ... Fw: [DAN-Labor] Public Meeting to ... www.nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0012/ ... MAGAZINES & JOURNALS >A glance at the November 27 issue of "Forbes": >A mocking look at the social sciences > >Dan Seligman. ... www.nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0011/2038.html
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Message: 10 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:16:56 -0700 From: "Robert L. Gleiser" <rgleiser at tscnet.com> To: upstream-list at cycad.com Subject: [Upstream] Toward Tradition (Conservative Jews): Our Society "Terrorized by Tolerance"
http://www.jta.org/story.asp?story=8021
Conservative group slams ‘tolerance' as harmful to the dignity of society By Sharon Samber
WASHINGTON, July 3 (JTA) — A primarily Jewish group is calling for an end to modern "tolerance," saying it has led to increased pornography, hostility to faith and families and an assault on the dignity of human life.
In an ad placed on The New York Times Op-Ed page last Friday, the conservative interfaith group Toward Tradition said society was "terrorized by tolerance" and urged a return to biblical morality.
The ad confused and riled many American Jews. It also challenged the notion that Jewish organizations speak in a united voice for the Jewish community when it comes to issues like tolerance and pluralism.
Toward Tradition is a coalition of Jews and Christians that supports traditional, faith-based and American principles of constitutional and limited government. Its Web site states it supports the rule of law, representative democracy, free markets, a strong military and a moral public culture.
Founded in 1991, the Mercer Island, Wash.-based group has grass-roots chapters of activists throughout the country and distributes a regular newsletter and policy papers on topics such as taxation, education and other social and cultural issues.
Yarden Weidenfeld, national director of Toward Tradition, said the rhetoric of groups that claim they are fighting racism and anti-Semitism are really masking a liberal political, moral and social agenda, and that very agenda is dangerous to the Jewish community.
There is a tendency in the Jewish community to be on the anti- traditional side of debates, Weidenfeld said, and conservative groups get demonized and delegitimized.
"There's a lot of closed-mindedness in the name of open-mindedness,"
Weidenfeld told JTA.
"In 2001, you can't say anything is right or wrong anymore, except for vaguely defined intolerance," the ad said.
This situation is "especially ominous for Jews," the ad said, because it undermines "respect for all moral values, including respect for minorities."
The ad drew some harsh criticism from Jewish figures.
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called Toward Tradition a "fringe group" that gets attention by attacking majority Jewish opinions in an exaggerated fashion.
While the ad argued that the Torah isn't particularly tolerant Foxman countered that the concept of "Love thy neighbor as thyself," an important principle of Judaism, is the highest form of tolerance.
In 1994, Toward Tradition rejected the ADL report, "The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance & Pluralism in America," objecting to the study's conclusion that there is a conservative Christian threat to Jewish security.
If Toward Tradition is suggesting that mainstream Jewish groups support the drift to moral relativism — including hostility to police officers and contempt for free enterprise, as listed in the ad — then that is "utter nonsense," said Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Saperstein said it was hard to figure out what the strongly worded ad was aiming to achieve.
But Saperstein acknowledged that Rabbi Daniel Lapin, the group's president and founder of the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice, Calif., has credibility in some circles on the right so he can do things that are helpful to common visions of the Jewish community, such as security of Israel, fighting anti-Semitism and preserving religious freedom.
Lapin was one of a few Jewish thinkers who was invited to meet with President Bush in the early transition days of the administration about the White House plan to fund religious groups that provide social services.
By placing religious values at the core of the incoming administration, Bush will do a great deal to help unify the country, Lapin said at the time.
Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America, said Toward Tradition is right: The word "tolerance" has often been twisted into a weapon for use against those who embrace traditional morality.
The tone of the ad was "a little harsh," Shafran said, but the group's increased visibility is a sign of the respectability of the conservative approach.
"It's important there be conservative voices in the Jewish world," Shafran said, adding he hopes the Jewish community gets to hear all sides of an issue and doesn't have to think a Jewish approach means a liberal take.
There is a certain political correctness in the Jewish community that is troubling to American Jewish conservatives, said Murray Friedman, director of the Feinstein Center of American Jewish History at Temple University.
"If you deviate from the mainstream, you are questioned," Friedman said, and some in the community see conservatism as reactionary and even fascist.
But Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, said the ad indicates that the group is trying to reach out to non-Jewish conservatives.
"Toward Tradition does not even reflect the views of neo-conservatives in the Jewish community," Sarna said.
Toward Tradition said it had received hundreds of phone calls, most of them positive, about the ad.