He just said he should have mentioned the papers he used in his attack on Black folks were written by open racists. Should have told you the open racists have a nice glossy magazine, American Renaissance, check your newsstand in business districts and suburban shopping malls.
You should check out at least one issue of the magazine. Not a pointy-head sheet in sight.
Just as there is a vast right wing conspiracy, there is a vast white wing conspiracy, and it's just as open as the wingnut one because they have considerable overlap. And they operate the same way...by cloaking vileness in reasonable-enough sounding terms that it becomes a set of thinkable thoughts. By insinuating them into common conversation. And they don't care much about the details as long as at the end of the discussion negroes are stupid.
For instance, Racism Review posted an interesting thing titled, The Pseudoscience of “Intelligence” Testing. Check this comment:
You think IQ tests are biased because they were invented by white men. Fine. So was math, and just like IQ there is a black-white gap in math performance. So should we reject the usefulness and validity of math?
The problem here is, anyone who thinks this is a reasonable parallel is too stupid to understand the explanation of why it is not.
So it is with Saletan, apparently. But he did get American Renaissance a few new subscriptions.
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The Pioneer Fund As A Promoter of Fascism
This article was originally published in 1977 in the New York Times.
The American Eugenics Movement
A brief essay on the social origins of the American eugenics movement.
The Funding of Scientific Racism
Since Amazon is in the business of selling books it should not mind me lifting this material from its website. The book being promoted is The Funding of Scientific Racism by William H. Tucker.
Editorial Reviews
Review
-- Barry Mehler, founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism
Book Description
The Pioneer Fund, established in 1937 by Wickliffe Preston Draper, is one of the most controversial nonprofit organizations in the United States. Long suspected of misusing social science to fuel the politics of oppression, the fund has specialized in supporting research that seeks to prove the genetic and intellectual inferiority of blacks while denying its ties to any political agenda. This powerful and provocative volume proves that the Pioneer Fund has indeed been the primary source for scientific racism. Revealing a lengthy history of concerted and clandestine activities and interests, The Funding of Scientific Racism examines for the first time archival correspondence that incriminates the fund's major players, including Draper, recently deceased president Harry F. Weyher, and others.
Divulging evidence of the Pioneer Fund's political motivations, William H. Tucker links Draper to a Klansman's crusade to repatriate blacks in the 1930s. Subsequent directors and grantees are implicated in their support of campaigns organized in the 1960s to reverse the Brown decision, prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act, and implement a system of racially segregated private schools.
Tucker shows that these and other projects have been officially sponsored by the Pioneer Fund or surreptitiously supervised by its directors. This evidence demonstrates that any results of genuine, scientific value produced with the fund's support have been a salutary, if incidental, consequence of its actual purpose: to provide ammunition for what has essentially been a lobbying campaign to prevent the full participation of blacks in society and the polity.
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Thank you for the references. I think all the discussion of whether or not white supremacy is consciously implemented can be cut short by pointing at actual examples.