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Reader (Aargh!) Surfaces To Reprove Tom Fleming
A Reader And VDARE.COM Meditate on
NRO’s Misplaying the Race Card
VDARE.COM comments:
As VDARE.COM has gained momentum, it has become
hearteningly apparent how much journalistic talent is
lying unused out there in Middle America. Contrary to
what might be suggested by an unvaried diet of the Wall
Street Journal Edit Page/Washington Times Edit
Page/Goldberg [formerly National] Review/ Weekly
Standard, it is not necessary to be the scion or house
elf of one of the great Neconservative families to be
able to perceive the importance in current affairs, and
write succinctly about it.
One the great services our
new friends do for us is to spare us the task of reading
and flagging the outrageous rubbish so frequently to be
found in what are nominally “conservative”
publications. Today’s letter is a case in point.
Peter Wood has been writing a
series of
mild whimperings about the
state of the universities in the G(formerly N) Review
over the last six months. Unfortunately, as our friend
Upton Nichols notes, he appears to be part of the
problem, not the solution. The article Nichols here
dissects might possibly be excused on the part of a
non-specialist ignorant of the area (although it’s not
difficult to
follow), but Wood (email
him) teaches a required course
on ethnology for first year graduate students.
The underlying issue here,
of course, is not that yet another academic turns out to
lack elementary intellectual integrity, but what was it
about this absurd article that induced the G [formerly
N] R editors to publish it?
FROM:
Upton
Nichols
In the aftermath of the
Ann Coulter debacle, the editors of National
Review are obviously very eager to display their
ethnic/racial tolerance—so eager that they have
published an amazingly irresponsible article suggesting
that science has disproven the concept of race.
"The Race Card" by Peter Wood is at best an
egregiously sloppy piece of journalism or more likely a
classic piece of neocon propaganda—you decide.
Woods’ basic premise is that the Left uses race to
divide the country and obtain
political power. No argument here.
He then goes on to reject the legitimacy of racial
politics on the faulty grounds that racial
classifications have no real biological basis. I will
limit my focus to Wood’s outrageous summary of
The Seven Daughters Of Eve:
It offers mixed news for racists. On one hand,
science has now found definite proof that
humans belong to several distinct non- overlapping
lineages. On the other hand, those lineages are
located exclusively in mitochondrial DNA and have
nothing to do with our outward appearance or ability
Three questions for Mr. Wood and the (scientific)
editors at National Review:
- If scientists have proven several distinct
lineages, how is it possible for nuclear DNA to jump
these lineages evidenced by mitochondrial DNA?
- Is
National Review therefore proposing a new major
genetic paradigm other than transfer of genes from
parent to child?
- If
mitochondrial DNA is the only racial DNA, but it has
nothing to do with physical appearance, then where are
the genes responsible for characteristic racial
appearance and how do they mirror mitochondrial DNA
lineages?
This article is so bad and illogical that someone
should be fired at National Review for letting
this pass as reasonable journalism.
But the scientific sophistry of the neocons can only
last so long. One only has to read any medical journal
to see the future.
Recently the New England Journal of Medicine
published research
[i]demonstrating that different
polymorphisms (gene subtypes) more prevalent in blacks
than whites resulted in hypertension resistant to
medications. Also this month, the Journal of
Infectious Diseases
[ii]reported that a certain cell
receptor confers resistance to HIV infection. The
polymorphism (gene subtype) that encodes this receptor
exists in 15 % of whites and occurs at a much lower
prevalence in some other racial groups.
I guess the New England Journal of Medicine
has not read the National Review’s cutting edge
scientific proclamation that race is only a biological
reality within mitochondrial DNA.
The Left in America understands the reality of race
and uses it to its advantage.
The Right must reject the starry-eyed neocon dreams
if it ever wants to beat the Left.
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December 18, 2001
