{"id":20244,"date":"2018-10-31T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20244"},"modified":"2024-06-28T03:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:37:43","slug":"is-the-western-world-too-insane-to-be-worth-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20244","title":{"rendered":"Paul Craig Roberts on Identity Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to news reports NBC has cancelled Megyn Kelly\u2019s program for making \u201cinsensitive comments\u201d while participating in a panel discussion on the appropriateness of blackface in Halloween costumes. Here is what she said: \u201cTruly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person who put on whiteface for Halloween. When I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.\u201d She added, \u201cI don\u2019t know how that got racist on Halloween.\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/442267-megyn-kelly-nbc-blackface-fired\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It is beyond understanding what is offensive about what she said. She stated that it had become a no-no for the black and white races to impersonate one another even in fun and she didn\u2019t know why. I don\u2019t either. Do you? It makes no sense.<\/p>\n

We seem to have reached a point where any statement can be claimed by a member of a \u201cvictim group\u201d to be offensive. Saying anything has become risky.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t just happen to celebrities with multi-million dollar incomes like Megyn Kelly. It happens to everyone. For example, Joshua Sutcliffe, a young math teacher in Oxfordshire, England, accidently included a \u201ctransgender student,\u201d who apparently is female but identifies as a male, when he congratulated his class with the words \u201cwell done girls.\u201d The female who identifies as a male but doesn\u2019t look like one, unbeknownst to the teacher regarded herself as a male and complained about his \u201cfemale-gendered words.\u201d The school suspended him for \u201cmisgendering\u201d a student. https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/409760-teacher-trans-girls-christian\/<\/p>\n

Who gave the tiny group of people, who until recently were almost universally regarded as oddballs outside the domain of everyday life, the right to ruin the careers and lives of people who use the ordinary language that we all grew up with? Who gave these people power over the way the rest of us speak? Why should they have this power? it makes no sense whatsoever. It is evidence of a culture that has lost all respect for truth and all confidence it itself.<\/p>\n

Megyn Kelly had no intention to offend anyone and neither did the math teacher. He was giving a compliment. Yet retribution falls on their heads as if they had committed some major felony when they have done nothing whatsoever but speak honestly.<\/p>\n

I have written about how science itself is being destroyed by Identity Politics, especially by radical feminist professors who are unwilling to accept the scientific fact that there are biological differences between males and females. You can find the articles on my website.<\/p>\n

In the Unz Review Lance Welton in his article, \u201cIt\u2019s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age,\u201d reports that radical feminists have come up with terms such as \u201cscientific racism\u201d and \u201cscientific sexism\u201d and use the terms to have peer-reviewed published papers deleted from scientific publications. One can only wonder why editors of scientific publications allow emotional and ignorant feminists to censure science exactly as it was censured by the Catholic Church during the era of controversy whether the sun orbited the earth or the earth orbited the sun. The obvious conclusion is that science has lost confidence in itself and is willing to submit to rule by Identity Politics.<\/p>\n

Welton provides several examples of science ruled by emotion. Professor Alessandro Strumia, a physicist associated with the world\u2019s largest particle accelerator, has been suspended from his important work. Alessandro said, truthfully, that physics was \u201cbuilt by men\u201d and that today men are being discriminated against in physics education and appointments, because of the push to have an equal number of male and female physicists. https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/cern-scientist-suspended-sexism-alessandro-stumia-large-hadron-collider-a8564366.html<\/p>\n

I know for a fact that both of Alessandro\u2019s statements are absolutely correct. But being absolutely correct is what dooms you in Identity Politics. The last thing a \u201cvictimized person\u201d intent on demonizing a white male cares about is truth.<\/p>\n

Welton also reports the case of American mathematician Ted Hill, who investigated the \u201cGenetic Male Variability Hypothesis,\u201d which is that males are over-represented at the extremes of high and low IQ. In other words, males are disproportionally the smartest and the dumbest.<\/p>\n

Feminists lost it. The findings violated their ideology, which has no basis in any known science, that the genders are equally bright and equally dumb.<\/p>\n

Hill\u2019s paper was peer-reviewed and pubished by one journal and then taken down under feminist pressure. It was then peer-reviewed and published in another journal and then taken down. http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/its-official-even-hard-science-entering-new-dark-age\/<\/p>\n

Scientists working in the field of human genetics are finding that it is not permissible for them to publish their findings that there are genetic race differences in intelligence and other human attributes.<\/p>\n

The only conclusion that a sane and rational person can come to is that the Western World is insane. Western science is collapsing under the ideological pressure of Identity Politics.<\/p>\n

So why do the Russians want to join the West? Is Russia intent on being part of the collapse of scientific civilization?<\/p>\n

Will the Russian government ever realize that their \u201cpartners\u201d in the West are insane beyond the meaning of the word?<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2018\/10\/29\/is-the-western-world-too-insane-to-be-worth-saving\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to news reports NBC has cancelled Megyn Kelly\u2019s program for making \u201cinsensitive comments\u201d while participating in a panel discussion on the appropriateness of blackface in Halloween costumes. Here is what she said: \u201cTruly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person … <\/p>\n

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