Doctor, What’s On?
So,
Dr James Watson has opened up the racial equality debate again, the same
debate initiated by Hans Eysenk back in the early 1970s. Briefly, he has
expressed a desire to investigate possible differences between the
degree of intelligence between various ethnic groups among human beings.
Perhaps prematurely, he has stated that there appears to be evidence
that may suggest Negroes exhibit less intelligence than Caucasians. In
the Eysenk report of 3 decades earlier, there was also a suggestion that
Orientals were more intelligent than Caucasians. I remind readers of
this in order to divert from the debate the implication that there is
any ‘white supremacist’ agenda behind these statements. Dr Watson
acknowledged the problem of poverty in Africa and stated a desire to
address this by any means possible, including research into the
possibility that black people may be less intelligent.
Note:
my summary is brief and an opinion on either Eysenk or Watson should not
be derived purely from this paragraph alone. Read the article by Dr
Watson in The Independent first. Political correctness must never be
allowed to dictate the boundaries of public debate or scientific
research. This is what happened in soviet Russia and it is one of main
reasons why China has yet to enter the 21st century. The concept of
political correctness is a purely Marxist invention – which is ironic
since I wonder if Karl Marx himself would sanction what is being
propagated in his name – and we all know now where Marxism leads:
Stalin, Pol Pot and millions of murdered Armenians.
Typically
– perhaps inevitably – all the same tired old apologists from the
holocaust industry have crawled out of the gutter to tell us what we can
and cannot say in a public forum. This should come as no surprise: most
jewish supremacists live in Old Testament times anyway so it is
perfectly understandable they should seek to inhibit scientific progress
at any cost. You don’t have to be a leading, eminent scientist to
incur the wrath of these hysterical bigots – when UNIT released their
album Rock In Opposition: Phase 1 back in 2006, it contained the track
Free Palestine, the text of which revealed the blatant similarities
between the current regime in operation in Palestine and the gross
brutality of the apartheid system in South Africa. In the Resonance
website forum, Achoi asked why various people refused to answer his
e-mails (a situation that was later revealed to be largely imaginary as
it happens) and 2 individuals ventured the reason to be because of our
alleged hostility towards Jewish people. Even Achoi, with his professed
limited political knowledge, was able to show the absurdity of such
critics who revealed themselves to be nothing more than members of the
tedious.
However,
I mention all the above because it is purveyors of the holocaust
industry who were the first to leap into the issue with the hysterical
fervour so typical of their kind. The trouble is, debate of this nature
suffers from a disability almost before it has begun: the history of
holocausts (Armenians and Jews) which used pseudo-scientific research as
a justification, of apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, of the
gruesome 400 years of slavery and racism perpetrated primarily by white
Europeans against black Africans. This historical perspective must not
be allowed to inhibit genuine scientific research but it must also never
be ignored – the world does not need another Mengeler, after all. It
is unfortunate that people who defend the right of scientific research
into differences between racial groups are often also members of groups
like the British National Party, Front Nationale and the Ku Klux Klan.
Such people must have been rather irritated and very disappointed when
evidence was alleged which revealed Orientals and Asians to possess
greater intelligence than white Caucasians. However, not everyone who
seeks further research into this area is a raving Nazi – far from it.
I
suspect that if I was a black African (or a black American or Briton,
for that matter), my response to the article by Dr Watson would be
something like ‘oh no, not again – one day they’ll leave us
alone’. I might feel that since people like me had been enslaved for
400 years, subjected to physical and social abuse in America and Britain
throughout most of the 20th century, that the last thing I needed was
some white middle class scientist to then suggest that maybe part of the
reason Africa suffers such poverty is because we’re less intelligent
than our white slave masters. The poverty rampant in Africa could not be
a result of the legacy of colonialism and the acquisition of debt relief
programmes by American millionaires, could it? You see, to suggest that
African nations suffer intense poverty because black people might be
less intelligent than other races is rather too close to blaming the
victims which means, by implication, that the genuine perpetrators of
poverty in third world countries – capitalists in the form of
multinational corporations – are allowed a possible escape route from
the ire, retribution and courts of justice in which these people should
appear.
I
could ask this question: suppose it could be proved that black people
were ‘less intelligent’ than other races? So what? Would that
automatically mean they deserved less respect and less rights than the
rest of humanity? Hardly! However, the major problem here is located
within the question itself. What is intelligence? By what criteria do we
calibrate our comprehension of intelligence? Is intelligence the ability
to learn and repeat facts about certain chosen subjects in a school
curriculum? If so then parrots and minah birds are intelligent since the
acquisition of key phrases poses no problem for them. Perhaps it is an
ability to understand these facts that reveals intelligence. I would go
further and posit that it is an ability to acquire knowledge and then
know how and when to apply that knowledge to situations we encounter in
life which reveals a more accurate appraisal of intelligence. If we can
agree on this then we are surely confronted with a problem should we
attempt to support the Eysenk and Watson claims.
This
is best summarised in a remark Achoi made to me back in 2003: ‘white
people know how to make the best bombs.’ Achoi was always pithy.
Indeed, it is my race that has given the world nuclear, chemical and
biological warfare (with assistance from Chinese scientists here and
there). Is that really so clever? Is the ability to obliterate all life
on the planet really a sign of intelligence?
Lest
anyone should mistake me for some creeping guilt ridden white liberal
(well, it’s possible, some folks are remarkably dim witted), let me
remind you what my race – the white race – has also contributed to
the world: harmony, fugue and counterpoint in music; perspective in
painting; the modern form of the novel; dramatic plays; opera (although
admittedly this should be listed alongside biological warfare); the
discovery and use x-rays; the telescope; the microscope; calculus in
mathematics and so on and so forth. In my room is a giant flag, a black
background with prominent bold white letters which read White Pride
World Wide. Unfortunately the effect is somewhat marred by the little
tag at the bottom left hand corner which reads ‘made in Taiwan’.
All
the same, I am justifiably proud of the contribution made by the white
race to the artistic and scientific knowledge of the world. The trouble
begins when other people agree with me – because many of these people
happen to belong to groups like the British National Party, Marie Le
Penn’s Front Nationale and Jorg Heider’s mob over in Austria. It is
possible to be a patriot and proud of your race without being a fascist
or a national socialist. However, what does such a statement actually
imply?
In
a world of international communications via the internet and world wide
web combined with mass migrations from country to country, is patriotism
and racial pride still relevant? In my composition Roads Bridges Space
(issued on Rock In Opposition: Phase 3) I wrote ‘You cannot take
national pride into space’. Imagine a manned space probe sent from
Earth reaches the outer rim of the solar system, perhaps as far as the
Oort Cloud. Contact is made with an incoming alien craft sent from
Proxima Centauri to investigate the source of all those radio signals
that originate from some planet in the Sol system. Do the astronauts
introduce themselves as a Russian, a Chinese and an American or do they
greet the aliens as representatives of Earth?
