Re: Catchup voting results

John Croft wrote:

>
> In reply to my post
> > John: Bloom is a very limited use of this concept, and is racially
> > biased
> > against Arabs (and religiously biased against Islam). A far better
> > treatment is Susan J. Blackmore and Richard Dawkin's treatment in the
> > Meme Machine.
> >
> > Gerry: How can you accuse Bloom of being racist and anti-Islamic! At
> > least give him a chance to defend himself!
>
> Have you read the Lucifer Principle? In his chapter on "Are there
> Killer Cultures?" He says Islamic cultures are barbaric, training
> future generations to be killers. He claims that according to the
> Koran the man who fails to make wide slaughter in the land of the
> infidels is committing a sin. Sounds like anti-Islamic racism to me.
> Or should we say that a country that had a Manifest Destiny to
> exterminate the Indians was a "Killer Culture"
>
> John
>

Hi John,
Yes, I've read Bloom's _Lucifer Principle_. And what he is saying is
actually "factually" correct but politically incorrect. However, for
him to have said the opposite would have been, shall we say,
*politically correct*. This argument isn't only true of Bloom but is
also true for Rushton's *Race, Evolution & Behavior*. IMO, what we have
set up here is a true dichotomy with Rushton & Bloom at one end of the
broomstick and those Politically Correct folks at the other end.

One thing we can possibly do is to ask both groups to scooch over closer
to the center; however, I'm afraid that there would be no takers from
either side. Another option is to apply Critical Hermeneutics (Ian
Hodder) and try to attain a simultaneous fusion and separation of those
(Race) Realists on one side and those Politically Correct folks on the
other.

Actually this is what we're trying to do on the hbe-l list. Someone
suggested that we begin by listing specific factors which need to be
melded. Do you have any items with which you'd like to begin?
Gerry
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