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When Charles A. Murray '65 spoke at the Institute of Politics last week, he demonstrated why his brand of racism is so subtle and so dangerous. He has tried to disguise The Bell Curve as an academic work and has attempted to hide his pseudoscientific musings, tainted sources, lies and distortions behind a mountain of legitimate facts and statistics. But the tremendous amount of criticism of The Bell Curve that has recently been published has completely debunked this flawed book. In fact, even a cursory study of The Bell Curve and its criticism proves that Murray's work is intentionally...
...Kampf. Major portions of the book deal with race, and the assumptions of the chapters on race are used to justify major changes in public policy, from welfare to affirmative action. The Bell Curve is a political and not a scientific work--it subjectively molds facts and relies on racism to advance its politically motivated theories...
...revolt of the '60s, leftists reinterpreted American history and argued that the dream of freedom and equality was a farce of slaveowners. Yet while racism is part of the American past, each generation has seen our society grow more open and more inclusive. If we cannot claim a just past, we surely can look at a progress toward justice...
...first such disgrace. Four years ago, the National Museum of American Art produced an exhibition on America's westward expansion that mined every artifact for evidence of white racism and rapacity. Former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin called the show "perverse, historically inaccurate, destructive." These exhibits are not accidents. They reflect the extent to which the forces of political correctness and historical revisionism, having captured the universities, have now moved out to dominate our museums and other institutions of national culture...
Mura, a third generation Japanese-American, described how racism and the Japanese internment. during World War II affected Asian-Americanidentity at his poetry reading, sponsored by theReischauer Institute and the Asian-AmericanAssociation...