Re: Darwin, Evolution, the Animal Kingdom, and Man

From: David Longley (David_at_longley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:42:40 +0000

In article <876td.125390$%x.119700@okepread04>, Albert
<albertwagner@cox.net> writes
>David Longley wrote:
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>> Is this the consequence of "political correctness" or is it just
>>human idiocy?
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>> The price of "political correctness" is more than the reinforcement
>>of idiocy.
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>Just exactly what falls under the heading of 'political correctness'
>that you so abhor?
>Can you give a list of such ideas?

You'll have you have to work that out for yourself. Try looking into the
history of political correctness - some of the following might help. My
providing these links does not mean that I endorse all that's posted at
these sites.

<http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/pinc/index.html>
<http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/>

Before you go browsing, you should ask yourself how it can be that so
many (apparently educated folk), get so much of what the most
influential behaviour scientists of the last century factually reported,
so categorically wrong - and yet object so vehemently to having their
errors corrected.

To me it's exactly the same as hearing people say that they believe the
capital of England to be Birmingham, and then objecting (when they're
corrected that it's London) that they have the right to their opinion
(constitutionally) and that I'm being intolerant & offensive by telling
them that they're wrong.

You may thing that an exaggeration, but this is almost exclusively why I
tell people here that they're idiots; i.e. it's to forcefully
demonstrate a point that (sadly) really does need to be made.
David Longley
http://www.longley.demon.co.uk