On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:48:32 +0000 "Celi Ben" <cpthron at hotmail.com>
writes:
>
>
> Seizing onto the Berkeley thing - look at this political science
> professor
> at UC Berkeley. I had heard that the poli sci department was far
> more
> centrist than outsiders might imagine, and that only english and
> geography
> and rhetoric have more of a leftist slant. But I was glancing at a
> Berkeley
> blog frequented by undergraduates with a fraternity center/right
> perspective
> (they were recently making fun of affirmative action/small black
> freshman
> class and thought the school's reaction to a BB gun hazing
> incident/drunk
> driving incident were excessive) and one writer was saying that
> James Gregor
> had finally crossed the line in his rant about uptight asians and
> asian
> women and sex. It turns out as a comparative fascologist, he has a
> long
> record of eugenics support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gregor
Concerning A. James Gregor, back in the '60s he wrote *A Survey of
Marxism: Problems in Philosophy and the Theory of History* which
is a reasonably competent survey exposition of Marxist thought
with particular emphasis on the intellectual development of
Marx & Engels and on Soviet philosophy. The book cover's profile
of Gregor mentions that he had published articles in
Science & Society amongst other places which is most curious
given his far right associations. He is also
described as having served as a lecturer on Marxism for
the Peace Corps. Apparently this guy has always had interesting
associations.
> .
> Wow... I pointed out on their blog that James Watson also supports
> eugenics
> ideas, and two of them just agreed with both of them.
> Anyway, what is notable is that I had never heard of Gregor, which
> makes me
> doubt that many people outside of the department have either. That
> is how on
> top of things the Berkeley antifascists are.
>
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