A prominent member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is under fire for publishing an essay in which he argues that Africans were fortunate to have been sold into slavery, and that the civil rights movement was "irrational."
"There is another way, or other ways, to look at the race issue in America," writes Gerald Schoenewolf, a member of NARTH's Science Advisory Committee. "Africa at the time of slavery was still primarily a jungle.... Life there was savage... and those brought to America, and other countries, were in many ways better off."....
I think I've heard this joke before. The punchline involved not getting eaten by a lion.
- Weirdo former-lefty-crackpot: Anti-Semitism (and Anti-Irish-ism) "sometimes justified".
In an interview profile for the magazine Watson asks rhetorically, "Should you be allowed to make an anti-Semitic remark?" He answered: "Yes, because some anti-Semitism is justified. Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society."
More from Esquire (who seem to have heavily edited that earlier section):
I've wondered why people aren't more intelligent. Why isn't everyone as intelligent as Ashkenazi Jews? And it may be societies work best when there's a mixture of abilities—the bright people would never be an army. Or has our intelligence been limited by leaders killing off any potential competitors? I suspect time is not a factor. The Ashkenazi Jews have a thousand years. So these are the sorts of things we'll find out—how many mutations would you need to be more intelligent?
Exactly how did this even come up in the interview? Did the guy just throw darts with various caricatures tied to them to a board and say, "go"? Also, Israel has Ashkenazi Jews- AND a universal draft. Que the fuck, dude?
The dear doctor adds that he left the left because they were trying to harsh his eugenics buzz, and now identifies as a libertarian.
And this isn't the first time this guy has wigged out.
Witnesses were flabbergasted when the 72-year-old discoverer of the double helix suggested there was a biochemical link between exposure to sunlight and sexual urges. ``That's why you have Latin lovers,'' Watson said. ``You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.''