Title : "New York Times columnist accused of eugenics over piece on Jewish intelligence/Bret Stephens faces backlash after suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are smarter than other people."
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"New York Times columnist accused of eugenics over piece on Jewish intelligence/Bret Stephens faces backlash after suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are smarter than other people."
Yikes, the heat on Bret Stephens has zoomed up since I blogged about his genius-of-Jews column at 5 a.m. yesterday morning.The Guardian says:
The rightwing New York Times columnist Bret Stephens...Eh. I don't think the right wing deserves responsibility for whatever it is Bret Stephens is.
... has sparked furious controversy online for a column praising Ashkenazi Jews for their scientific accomplishments, which critics say amounts to embracing eugenics.The Guardian is simply collecting tweets. An editorial director at Vice says, "It’s hard to read this column as expressing anything other than a belief in the genetic and cultural inferiority of non-Ashkenazi Jews"; a NYT contributor says, "I don’t think eugenicists should be op-ed columnists"; a "journalist" says, "A Jew endorsing the idea that certain races are inherently superior to other, lesser races, what could possibly go wrong?"; a writer called it "eugenics propaganda" and urged subscribers to cancel.
In a column titled The Secrets of Jewish Genius and using a picture of Albert Einstein, Stephens stepped in the eugenics minefield by claiming that Ashkenazi Jews are more intelligent than other people and think differently.... [There were] furious accusations that Stephens was using the same genetics arguments that informed Nazism and white supremacist thinking.
This is what you get on Twitter: hot takes. There, Stephens is a eugenicist. I do see this mild-mannered correction:
Bret Stephens @nytimes column on why Jews "made up about 3% of the U.S. population but won 27% of the U.S. Nobel science prizes." He's accused of eugenics. Opposite! He's making an argument for culture (of debate & disputation) over genes! Read again:https://t.co/QuPIlo8834— Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) December 29, 2019
Speaking of Twitter... the Guardian article goes on to talk about something I covered in my post yesterday: Last August, Bret Stephens got overheated about a some professor calling him a "bedbug." (Indeed, Stephens compared the professor's use of an insect analogy to the rhetoric of "a lot of totalitarian regimes in the past.")
The Guardian reminds us that Stephens quit his Twitter account over that screw-up:
“Time to do what I long ago promised to do,” tweeted Stephens before he deactivated his account. “Twitter is a sewer. It brings out the worst in humanity. I sincerely apologize for any part I’ve played in making it worse, and to anyone I’ve ever hurt. Thanks to all of my followers, but I’m deactivating this account.”What does that sound like? Yes, Podhoretz! Just the other day, we were talking about John Podhoretz quitting Twitter. Like Stephens, he blamed Twitter:
But Twitter has an oversoul now, and the oversoul is poisonous. It rewards bad rhetorical behavior, it privileges outrage of any sort over reason of all sorts, and it encourages us to misunderstand each other. It’s the devil on our shoulder.Twitter makes them do it! It's funny to see 2 self-important grown men shirking responsibility so childishly.
Stephens and Podhoretz took the same approach in blaming Twitter, but their rhetoric is interestingly different:
Stephens called Twitter a "sewer," likening human speech to filth — and so soon after flying into outrage over the professor's calling him a "bedbug." Wasn't he committing the very outrage he detected in the other guy?
Podhoretz went into the realm of unworldly spirits: Twitter is an "oversoul" and "the devil." What's up with "oversoul"? The OED defines "oversoul" — coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson in "The Over-Soul" — as: "The supreme spirit believed in some mystical philosophies to pervade, animate, or constitute the universe, and with which all human souls are believed to be united. Also figurative and in extended use."
You know Ralph Waldo Emerson has a Twitter account. He tweets nonsewage like:
The reason why lunatics swear, is because their exaggerated sensation requires an exaggerated speech.— Ralph Waldo Emerson (@Ralph_W_Emerson) May 22, 2016
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