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...Watson actually stands by his racist remarks. Shortly after the scandal broke, Watson told The Associated Press “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said. There is no scientific basis for such a belief.” The true danger of Watson’s insensitive remarks and his apparent predilection for promulgating distasteful views is that as a result of his stature as a scientist, people will mistake his fringe views as representative of the majority of scientists. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nevertheless, his contributions...
Indeed, this danger makes the logic of hyper-assimilationist Asian Americans very fatally flawed. For them, and for me, mainstream American values become a baseline assumption, instituted and enforced by pressures of environment. An understanding of prior values and circumstances is rarely given extensive thought...
...David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Terrorism Awareness Project (TAP), Islamo-Fascism Awareness aims to confront the two “big lies” of the political left: “that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat.” This movement has little value beyond being a right-wing political stunt, and its occurrence at institutions of higher education is a massive shame. At best, it will spark superficial debate on religious fundamentalism without offering a balanced political or cultural history...
...planning the Harvard Square renovation, the potential danger of putting a tree in front of the Lampoon Castle appeared to have been raised in a May 2003 planning meeting...
...Following a series of riots in 2005 that pitched impoverished township dwellers against riot police in scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, President Thabo Mbeki recognized the dangers posed by the ongoing social inequality. "The riots seek to exploit the class and nationality fault lines we inherited from our past," Mbeki told parliament. "If ever they took root, gaining genuine popular support, they would pose a threat to the stability of democratic South Africa." But Altbeker sees the danger exacerbated by the ANC's own policies of pursuing economic growth without promoting social equality. "A large body of economic thinking...