As summarized by William Saletan (h/t gogol’s wife):
A pure scientist would let us purge these traits from the gene pool by fighting and killing one another.
by DougJ| 51 Comments
This post is in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
As summarized by William Saletan (h/t gogol’s wife):
A pure scientist would let us purge these traits from the gene pool by fighting and killing one another.
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Baud
Good idea. Let’s start with Saletan.
Egg Berry
You can’t Godwin that which has been Godwinned from the start.
Zifnab
“Conservatives value charity and self-sacrifice and community and the family unit and cooperation and synergy. That’s six things! Liberals just value helping people. That’s only one thing. Conservatives win! Now lets gut social security and medicare.”
David Hunt
Like Pat Buchanan’s speech at that Republican Convention years ago, I suspect the above quote sounded better in the original German.
ant
yall gonna put up a post on the Oklahoma shooting?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/06/us/oklahoma-shootings/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady)
I’m not getting out of the boat but feel safe to say that it’s a sociopath rendering judgment on fellow sociopaths as being intellectually, hence morally superior to all of us natural serfs, amirite?
DougJ, Head of Infidelity
@ant:
Not another shooting. That sucks.
El Cid
You know, “pure”, not one of these mudblood types.
the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady)
@ant:
It’s only a lone nutjob who all of the neighbors liked. Disregard the Mark Levin, Turner Diaries and Glenn Beck books, and The 5000 Year Leap obsession.
/MSM
Chris
As a scientist and a human being, I’m offended. Saletan clearly knows nothing of either science or morality.
RD
How predictable was it that firebaggers would fall in behind John Derbyshire?
Anoniminous
@ant:
Tulsa Race Riot.
Have to keep up them old Southern traditions, ya know.
Jennifer
Painter of Shite™ dead at 54.
wasabi gasp
Gladiator gonna modify your hypothesis.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
it was funnier the way george carlin said it.
4 groups
science!
RD
@efgoldman:
Who knows.
Perhaps the point is that you’re a pussy that deserves to lose.
wasabi gasp
@Jennifer: He had his moments.
Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor
Be careful what you wish for, Bill. Science-types have the better weapons.
Southern Beale
Aw holy hell. First we had that racist crap from John Derbyshire. Now this?
Conservatives: What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Corner Stone
@RD: Moran.
Peter
OT: Apparently Obama signed some kind of jobs bill yesterday? I can’t find any source with details though. Anybody in the know?
Roger Moore
@Southern Beale:
There’s a blah dude in the White House, and it’s making them lose their shit even worse than normal.
Jennifer
Ok, I am sorry, I am NOT a good person, but this from the comments on Kinkade’s passing over at the SA forums was just too good not to pass along:
Also, it really makes me want to go read the Andrew Breitbart thread.
Baud
@Peter: Not a real jobs bill. I think it loosens some rules to make it easier for small businesses to get investor funding.
KG
@Roger Moore: I think another part of it is the idea that they thought “standing athwart history yelling ‘stop!'” was actually something they could do. And they’ve come to the conclusion that history will just run them the fuck over.
KG
@Jennifer:
happy little trees, I hope
Peter
@Baud: Ah, okay. It was the subject of a Backers email for the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter today, and I’ve spent all the time since wondering what the hell they we’re talking about. I found a few articles about the signing but none with any real details.
samara morgan
you and saletan could both benefit from reading the Republican Brain, dougj betrayer in chief.
how about a BJ book club post?
I’m sure chris already gave John a copy.
;)
gogol's wife
@samara morgan:
“betrayer in chief”? What is the problem now? Why am I asking this question? Procrastination is a terrible thing. It makes you do things like this.
Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor
@samara morgan:
Mooney’s new book actually would be an excellent BJ Book Club subject…
__
Just sayin’.
Yutsano
@gogol’s wife: Please don’t. The child is on a racist supporting eugenics kick.
Egg Berry
i’m not sure Bob Ross = Kinkade.
samara morgan
@gogol’s wife: dougj uses one translation of the arabic phrase OBL applied to Obama.
I’m just giving alternate interpretations of the arabic to capture what OBL really meant.
dougj thinks “head of infidelity” is funnie in the “look at those stupid muslims” sense.
it just means westerners are poor translators of arabic.
OBL hated and feared Obama far more than Bush.
understandably.
samara morgan
@Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor: yay! we agree on something!
RD
@Corner Stone:
Truth be told, I miss the heyday of the Cracker Pack.
WyldPirate is just…lame.
beltane
@RD: I am hurt that BOB hasn’t made an appearance yet. Maybe our better trolls are trolling more heavily trafficked websites than this one, although I would like to remind them that they get more bang for their buck here as we actually take the time to read and respond to their trolling.
Bruuuuce
I’m sorry, but neither the Shadows nor the Vorlons are worth acceding to. This is OUR galaxy now!
Citizen_X
@Roger Moore: As a real scientist (“pure?” What the unholy fuck?), I say we follow the blah dude with a chick, a Messkin, and a Mooslim dude in the White House (all somewhat liberal, of course), so that the sociopaths may continue to identify themselves and repel all but their fellow 27%ers.
RD
@Bruuuuce:
What do you want?
Tyro
The unintentional conclusion Haidt makes is this: “Conservatives Hate Us For Our Freedoms”
Unfortunately, he’s so caught up in his Stockholm-Syndrome-like affection for his conservative subjects that he doesn’t see it.
RD
@Bruuuuce:
What do you want?
RD
@Bruuuuce:
What do you want?
RD
@Bruuuuce:
What do you want?
samara morgan
testing
RSA
I guess for Saletan, true scientists are all eugenicists.I wonder if he got a different message from Lord of the Flies than the rest of us?
Persia
@Chris: I knew that back when he started saying people disregarded the Bell Curve for no good reason.
RD
Sometimes FYWP is unintentionally funny…
samara morgan
ahh.
another banning in process.
I’m slowly disappearing like the cheshire cat.
that last thing to go will be my smile……
RD
@samara morgan:
You argue in good faith and you show your work.
Keep smiling.
(another) Josh
Hey, that’s Isaac Asimov’s nephew eviscerating Saletan! Cool.
Some Guy
@Jennifer:
You’re a goon?