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30.10.2007
The Jesuits Are Gonna Love This

I apparently missed the early buzz on AEI adjunct fellow Jon Entine's book "Abraham's Children"--all about how Jews are genetically programmed to be smarter than everyone else--but Dana Milbank's dispatch from Monday's AEI forum on the book includes a lovely quote from fellow AEIer Charles "Bell Curve" Murray, reminding us of Murray's special gift for winning friends and influencing people. Positing that the Talmudic tradition probably drove out slow Jews long ago, Murray notes, "If you were dumb and a Jew, it was a lot easier to be a Christian." 

Oy. 

 --Michelle Cottle

Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:52 PM with 5 comment(s)

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bswearin said:

Murray actually has a lot to say about this, and it's a bit more nuanced than the quote Michelle provides.  Check out his article in Commentary on the topic from several months ago...

October 30, 2007 10:40 AM

boxofrox said:

If your anal and Christian, its alot easier to be a Jew. Badump bump. Have you heard the one about the.........All in good fun people...all in good fun.

October 30, 2007 11:35 AM

blackton said:

please let this be a parody posting.

obviously culture and society both play a far larger part. Singapore is a very clean city state with a large Chinese population. Are we to say that cleanliness is a chinese genetic characteristic, but then you go to Mainland China and it is filthy, so then Chinese must be naturally dirty. how about it is neither. The exact same thing is true for Jews. Society and culture, not genes, play a far larger part.

such horseshit spoken in 2007. 448 days until Bush slithers off to the desert with Dick in tow.

October 30, 2007 11:59 AM

ratnerstar said:

If you're argumentative and a Jew, it's a lot easier to post on the Spine.

October 30, 2007 12:03 PM

williamyard said:

What does this imply about me?  I'm an agnostic, and admit to having mutually rewarding conversations with believers, cats, and ballpark brats smothered in sauerkraut.  Not to mention orgasms, which remind me of life's priorities; I often giggle in their midst.

Among the aforementioned believers are Christians and Jews.  Bless them for talking to me, a mere hash mark on the Jockey short of their alleged God's Grand Design.

A Christian Brother who teaches astronomy once suggested to me that human consciousness gives the universe a means to be aware of itself.  It seems to me that said consciousness has little to do with intelligence; furthermore, intelligence, being increasingly starved of humility,  threatens to shatter the universe's only mirror.

So, yeah, intelligence. Woo hoo. Knock yourself out.

October 30, 2007 1:08 PM