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...Shockley said the Yale cancellation "only proves my point [that] universities do not encourage belief in the power of inquiry to find truth...
...have to give William B. Shockley credit for one thing: he doesn't like to take "no" for an answer...
This week Shockley's campaign to tell the Ivy League world that blacks are less intelligent than whites suffered another setback when a Yale University organization decided to revoke its invitation to Shockley and Roy Innis, national director of the Congress on Racial Equality...
Fortunately, since misery loves company, the AAUP and the Law School Forum aren't alone in painting a pathetic though unsubstantiated picture of pioneers of academic territory, bravely questioning accepted orthodoxy despite the powerful resistance of an entrenched establishment. To name just two, Shockley and the New York Times push the same line. But in fact this is not new and uncharted territory. Shockley's belief that blackness generally means stupidity has been around for a long time, and a glance at today's United States would show that it represents not a heroic challenge to established orthodoxy...
...wanted to address the question at all, instead of defending Shockley from imaginary attempts to suppress him, the AAUP should have attacked his real views...