Finsten Really Gets Filthy In Her Battle Battle For Political Correctness

Bob Whitaker (bwhit@conterra.com)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:26:36 -0500

> William Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Laura Finsten wrote:
> > >
> > > William Wilson <misterwrite@earthlink.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > >But the fact is races are subspecies and not species thus
> > > >they are not entirely distinct one from the other. Whites can be grouped
> > > >and identified only in the realm of probabilities. Whites differ from other
> > > >races in degree and not necessarily in kind. There's not enough room here to
> > > >catalog all of these differences so I would suggest reading J.P. Rushton's
> > > >Race, Evolution and Behavior for in depth detail (but they include
> > > >intelligence, health, tendencies to violence, testosterone sensitivity, etc.).
> > >
> > > Yeah, and such scientifically collected data as how far adolescent males
> > > can ejaculate, by asking kids at the Toronto Eaton Centre to fill in a
> > > questionnaire, or how large penises are by taking "data" from a piece
> > > of late 19th century French pornography.
> > >
> >
> > [Ms. Finsten, thank you for bringing up this issue which so freely finds
> > its way, so often without obstruction or contradiction, into print and the
> > Internet. The following comes from the Pioneer Fund website . . .]
> >
> > False Charge #7: Dr. Philippe Rushton, who was funded by Pioneer,
> > equates penis size (or gonad size) to intelligence, and he stands
> > in shopping malls asking men how far they can ejaculate.
> >
> > These falsehoods, which are childish attempts at ridicule, have been
> > repeated in several variations. Professor Rushton is a Guggenheim
> > Fellow, holds two doctorates from the University of London, and is
> > the author of five books and about 150 articles in scholarly
> > publications. In his book Race, Evolution and Behavior Rushton
> > considers over 60 variables in which Orientals, whites and blacks
> > always rank in the same order, notably including brain size and
> > intelligence. In a chapter on gamete production and sexual behavior,
> > Rushton gives official data on differences in condom size (used for
> > the prevention of AIDS) as determined by both the World Health
> > Organization and the United Nations International Organization for
> > Standardization. He merely recites the available statistics, taking
> > only about 2 pages for this purpose out of the 334 pages in the book.
> > This might be compared to the 34 pages on racial differences in brain
> > size and intelligence. He did not question men in a shopping mall, as
> > falsely claimed. When one reads in the media that Rushton is obsessed
> > with peni, one might fairly ask whether the dishonest writer himself is
> > not the one so obsessed.
> >
> > Happy Thanksgiving!
> > Wm. Wilson