The Menace of the New McCarthyism

<font size=”2″><span style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>by Cooper Sterling</span><br style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;” /><br style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;” /></font><p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>On June 25, the <strong><em><a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/25/martin-sewell-racist-cambridge-university-academic_n_1623370.html”>Huffington Post</a></em></strong>
“reported” that a Cambridge University academic “responsible for
mentoring students” has “come under pressure” to resign his position.
Guess which allegations resulted in <strong><a href=”http://race.martinsewell.com/”>Martin Sewell</a></strong>, a supervisor in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge University, coming under intense scrutiny:</font></p>

<p style=”padding-left: 30px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>(a) Rapist<br />
(b) Pedophile<br />
(c) Serial killer<br />
(d) Flash-mob thief<br />
(e) Cannibalistic predator<br />
(f) Racist, sexist, “pro-Hitler” eugenicist</font></p>

<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>If you guessed (f), you are correct!</font></p><br />

<font size=”2″><span style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>Critics are horrified that
Sewell, an accomplished academic and incisive observer of human
differences, has bucked the forces of political correctness and some how
remains gainfully employed.</span></font>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>Sewell, a 43-year-old native of Reading, has posted summaries of
“taxonomies of race,” which include notable (hint: notorious) sources:
John R. Baker’s <em>Race</em>, a landmark study published in 1974 by Oxford University Press; Michael Levin’s seminal work <em>Why Race Matters</em>; Herrnstein and Murray’s bestseller <em>The Bell Curve</em>; Arthur Jensen’s <em>The g Factor</em>; Frank Salter’s <em>On Genetic Interests</em>; Richard Lynn’s <em>Race Differences in Intelligence</em>; and Kevin MacDonald’s <em>A People That Shall Dwell Alone</em>.<span style=”text-align: justify;”>Sewell’s
Website postings have driven his adversaries raving mad. Surely a
“responsible” mentor of students should know better than to risk one’s
academic position by favorably citing such radioactive literature on
race and ethnicity. Acknowledging that race is a valid scientific
taxonomy and that race differences are natural biological realities will
generate accusations of “racist” faster than Heidi Beirich can inhale</span><span style=”text-align: justify;”> a tray of donuts. After all, “responsible” mentors know better!</span></font></p>

<div style=”text-align: justify; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;” class=”mceTemp”><font size=”2″>The fact that an
academic with Sewell’s laudable record is under such scrutiny speaks
volumes as to the nature of the infraction. From whence does this
“pressure” come?</font></div>

<div style=”text-align: justify; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;” class=”mceTemp”><font size=”2″>Left-wing critics have
worked tirelessly over decades to make it dangerous to espouse such
views—positions that are now rendered career-sacking offenses. How this
has come about is worth closer scrutiny.<br /><br />Editor’s note: Though the point of this article is spot-on and Hideous Heidi is indeed hideous due to her behavior, we do not endorse the author’s ad hominem comments about her weight. She would be evil even if she weighed 50 pounds.[/red<br /></font></div>
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2012-06-30