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> Damn it! Doesn't anyone read Gould?
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> There is no such thing as "innate intelligence" or
> "innate unintelligence," and if there were, mocking
> it (regardless of the person's other qualities)
> would be just plain piggish, like mocking a cripple.
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> This thread is far more stupid than Bush.
You're right that "innate" is racist bullshit (and that was one bone-dumb article too - Ronnie single-handedly won the Cold War, did he? liberated Buchenwald too). But that one unfortunate word aside - after all, no one claims Prescott and G.H.W. Sr. are the equivalent of the Kallikaks - still, stupidity, "the most powerful force in the universe," no matter how it comes into existence, is a solid-as-stone fact. Would you tolerate a mere student as clueless yet as arrogant as George W. Bush, on the grounds that a D or an F is "mocking a cripple"? I hate firing crew, but I'd _have_ to can a rodman so obnoxious and pinch-eyed stupid as him. Even if he were the boss's nephew. I've got work to do.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net