SocraticGadfly: Now it’s dumb women as well as dumb blacks for Murray

October 04, 2005

Now it’s dumb women as well as dumb blacks for Murray

Charles Murray, not content to be a racist on the matter of human intelligence, has now decided to out himself as a sexist as well.

“It’s quite satisfying to see that I didn’t get nearly the hostile reaction I was expecting this time,” Murray says from his home near Washington. “After ‘The Bell Curve,’ I was the Antichrist, so perhaps we have moved on and we can start looking at this data in an un-hysterical way.”
Perhaps. Another explanation may be that Murray has used up his 15 minutes of fame. Lisa Randall, an eminent Harvard theoretical physicist and cosmologist, had agreed to dissect Murray’s work, which appeared in the September issue of Commentary magazine in the US, for Inquirer but on reflection declined to respond. “The reason is that this just isn’t news and it’s not worthy of being covered,” she says. “If it really gets to the point where people accept it, I can explain the many logical fallacies in his piece.”
Isn’t this the BushCo “base” — the angry racist, insecure, pseudo-intellectual white male?

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