[Marxism] Heated reaction to racism at Slate.com

[Jim Farmelant]

On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:20:27 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes:
> NY Times, December 1, 2007
> I.Q. Debate Adds a Chapter Online
> By PATRICIA COHEN
> 



> 
> Linda S. Gottfredson, a sociologist at the University of Delaware, 

See
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Gottfredson

Her work has been financed by Rushton's
Pioneer Fund.

> insists that Mr. Saletan has nothing to apologize for. Ms. 
> Gottfredson, 
> who along with Mr. Flynn had been participating in a separate 
> monthlong 
> online debate about intelligence sponsored by the libertarian Cato 
> Institute, wrote that Mr. Saletan “may be the first journalist to so 
> 
> directly acknowledge the scientific evidence” supporting a genetic 
> explanation for racial differences in I.Q. “and to be allowed to 
> publish 
> his views.”
> 
> She calls the fierce response generated by the Slate articles 
> evidence 
> of “moral panic.” Ever since the 1970s, Ms. Gottfredson said in an 
> interview, most researchers have steered clear of the subject 
> altogether 
> (Mr. Murray aside). “No one wants to stick their neck out and say 
> what 
> they really think for fear that they’ll get shot down like Watson or 
> 
> criticized,” she said. “People are in hiding.”
>