Someone on SF wrote about how the longer lives science is bringing does a bit to offset the big birth rates of coloreds. I replied:
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Science gives us a big advantage for another reason: We are right and they are wrong.
When I was coming up, ALL heredity was declared Nazi. Routine articles that appear about the latest discovereiesin genetics wouldhave been suppressed back then.
Mankind History, which was an absolutely required belief when I was coming up in the 50s, is being routinly discredited in every documentary, with the Political Correct windup being the only remdined of the Old Days.
I seem to be the only person who remembers any of this.
#1 by richard on 03/17/2008 - 2:27 pm
When I was a teacher, the accepted orthodoxy was that boys and girls are exactly the same, and they should be taught in exactly the same way.
It was also accepted that you teach kids to read by making them learn whole words, instead of old-fashioned letter sounds.
Every study showed that phonics was hands-down the best way to teach reading, and that single sex schools always did better than mixed schools. But that was ignored.
Now the government is forcing schools to teach phonics, and recommending that girls and boys should be taught differently, if not seperately.
And of course, the same people who ruthlessly imposed the old orthodoxy are now imposing the new one.
I can only imagine how weary Bob feels.
#2 by Prometheus on 03/18/2008 - 3:12 am
The PC content of documentaries is dropping, yet the desire to make them PC is still evident. A purely PC documentary makes more sense, because it is consistent. The ‘facts’ support the message.
Documentaries these days acknowledge genetic heredity and kin selection and then try to ‘work’ it into a PC framework. I’ve been to philosophy lectures which tried to do exactly that. Talk about the inescapable fact that humans like other mammals DO have a preference for their own kind, and then try to twist and reinterpret it.