FILM TO KILL PEECEE

Backed by an American multi-millionaire (Stuart Browning), a fresh-faced 32-year-old computer whizz from New York turned out to be scheduled to produce by the end of the year a serious send-up of peecee tyranny on U.S. campuses (Daily Telegraph, 13 viii). Director Evan Coyne Maloney believed his film would horrify many rich and elderly alumni and lead to a drying up of funding for American luniversities. Maloney had seen the light when American media of 2003 ran broadcasts implying that protest against the Iraq war was normal: Maloney promptly took a camera along to demonstrations and had no difficulty finding lefties content to call President Bush a ‘Hitler without the moustache.’ Subsequently he found after dishing out dolls of Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore to crowds that, when he pretended to have run out and have only Osama bin Laden dolls remaining, the lefties “one after the other accepted the proferred action figures of the mastermind of 9/11.” Details of Maloney’s techniques and his liaison with the liberal-right Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) can be found at FIRE, 6 xii 2004. An American Christian website recorded (2005):

"Maloney is one of the newest wave of new-wave filmmakers, a former computer geek who uses the new tiny technology to put real films together right inside his cramped Manhattan apartment, and then promotes them on his own blog and websites. He describes himself as a libertarian-conservative with neo-conservative overtones, radicalized by seeing 9-11 up close and personal. "Being a New Yorker and watching the towers fall from the rooftop of my office building,” stated Maloney, “really has a way of grabbing you by the collar, slapping you in the face and waking you up about what kind of threats exist in the world." After 9-11, he became fascinated with far left protestors who appear to side with Islamic and Palestinian radicals against their own country. He began documenting how their love affair with the Palestinian cause has led them to a virulent hatred of Israel, a hatred he says is starting to spill over into a hatred of the Jews".


OZ ANTI-RACIST ACADEMICS STRONGER IN QUANTITY THAN QUALITY

Arguments demanding that academic free speech be “responsible”, sensitive and unfailingly non-racist were so feeble that the letter containing them needed scores of signatures from social scientists and hangers-on (including 46 ‘colleagues’ of Drew Fraser at Macquarie LUniversity) to give it sufficient weight for publication in the Australian (17 viii). In particular, the authors’ failure to define ‘racism’ meant that their proposals, if accepted, would banish even the most sober and scientific discussion of racial differences – since anti-racists standardly call a wide range of race scholars “(scientific) racists”(FIND racist).


HOLLYWOOD NON-PEECEE STARS IDENTIFIED

As the right and national liberals mobilized to take back the U.S. media from the left, the Hollywood Congress of Republicans listed some of its favourite stars (2005): Arnie Schwarzenegger, top beauty and actress Bo Derek, Bruce Willis, Charlton Heston, Chubby Checker, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicklaus, voluptuous Jane Russell (of ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’), top model Kathy Ireland, leggy nice-but-naughty Lara Flynn Boyle (‘Twin Peaks’), Matt Drudge, rockstar Meat Loaf, cute (half-Asian?) but incisive columnist Michelle Malkin, Oliver North, petite actress and author Patricia Heaton, Rush Limbaugh, Sylvester Stallone, and hot young busty blonde bombshell, Sorbonne-trained artist and supermodel Yvette Rachelle.


SEX DIFFERENCES IN IQ RANGE RE-ASSERTED

Differential psychologist Richard Lynn (ex-U. Ulster) and organizational psychologist Paul Irwing (ex-U. Ulster, then Manchester Business School) managed to score big-time in the media by reporting, (apparently from a worldwide literature review of cognitive tests in 57 studies [sampling unknown] and perhaps new material involving some 24,000 adult testees since 1960), that males were substantially over-represented at higher levels of IQ (some five-fold at over IQ 145) (Times, 25 viii; Sun, 25 viii; Herald, 25 viii; Daily Mail, 25 viii, p.29; BBC 25 viii (where Lynn & Irwing promptly attracted a score of responses, all critical); Glasgow Evening Times, 25 viii); The Australian (26 viii – taking the trouble to mention Lynn’s involvement in the (2002) discovery of a clear correlation between national prosperity and national IQ).

The finding, to be published in the British Journal of Psychology (the flagship journal of the British Psychological Society), due out 4 xi, was in line with Charles Murray’s (2003) estimate that only 2% of the world’s top 4,000 ‘achievers’ (till 1950) had been women. {Males also scored on average 5 IQ points higher than women but this may have reflected well-known higher male spatial abilities – since spatial tests are often used (instead of verbal or numerical tests) to achieve ‘culture-fair’ assessment of intelligence.} {Good news for women was that, matching for IQ, women actually achieved more than men -- perhaps because of conscientiousness or better memory due to lower alcohol intake.}

{The Education Guardian (25 viii} did its best to hold the line for sex equality by having Cambridge University professor Simon Boring-Cohen reject Professor Lynn’s attempt to rope him in as to a 5-IQ-point average male superiority , saying he still believed “overall intelligence is not better in one sex than in the other” – Boring-Cohen had become well-known for acknowledging attentional sex differences in breadth of intake (pointed out in Chapter 1 of The g Factor).} {Some journalists found it odd that, despite Lynn & Irwing’s result, female students today excel males at all levels of educational achievement except Ph.D. level – neglecting that today’s “educational achievement” in Britain is largely a matter of rote learning of spoon-fed material together with hyperconscientious application to time-wasting ‘projects’ undertaken with the help of parents.}

{The Guardian (Sam Jones, 26 viii) provided a handy summary of Richard Lynn’s views over the years on race, sex and class – including his brave 1996 acknowledgment (in response to my own trials in Edinburgh) that he could be called a ‘scientific racist.’ (Like William McDougall, Hans Eysenck and myself, Richard is essentially a democratic elitist.) In America, Exhibit.net (25 viii) offered a similarly wide attack on Lynn’s eugenic views. The American Outside the Beltway (26 viii) settled sensibly enough for doubting any substantial average sex difference in the g factor but agreeing that men have a wider standard deviation and thus produce more geniuses.}

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OBSERVER/GUARDIAN ADMITS THE g FACTOR

(Updated post)

In an amazing lapse from peecee principles, Health Editor Jo Revill casually announced to lefties the existence of "general intelligence," of links to maths and reading abilities, and of ""general" genes" governing "achievement at school" (Observer 7 viii or BNN[John Ray] 10 viii).

Not to be outdone, the mighty Chicago Sun-Times told its readers that higher-IQ women are less likely to marry (35% less for every 16 IQ points) whereas the opposite is true for men (40% more likely to marry for each 16 IQ points) and that “IQ is fixed” (whereas ‘Emotional Intelligence’ can be changed….) (8 viii).

Medindia.com claimed that research at London’s Maudsley Hospital had found “continual e-mailing and text-messaging” to be associated with an average IQ of only 90 (6 viii).

A Virginia jury took IQ seriously, finding that a convicted murderer whose IQ had risen from 59 to 76 should prepare himself for Death Row (Sunday Times, 7 viii; Sunday Mirror, 7 viii). Likewise a Georgia jury sent a murderer and rapist for execution when it turned out his low IQ score had been the result of his faking dumb on the advice of his lawyer (Tallahassee Democrat, 12 viii).

Readers of Parade magazine (widely distributed in the USA) guesstimated (viii) that the world’s 12 most intelligent people were: 1 Albert Einstein 2 Bill Gates 3 Marie Curie 4 Stephen Hawking 5 Condoleezza Rice 6 Bill Clinton 7 Sandra Day O'Connor 8 Oprah Winfrey 9 Warren Buffett 10 Jane Goodall 11 Steven Spielberg 12 Dalai Lama (n.b.: 57% of respondents were women).

The Government of Thailand (where IQ averages 91) became sufficiently worried about low IQ as to embark on mapping the whole country to see whether IQs of under 80 were importantly linked to areas of iodine deficiency (The Nation, 13 viii).

British Mensa (membership 25,000) kept going, announcing a search for high-IQ folk in the Chester area (Chester Evening Leader, 13 viii).

And the British Journal of Psychiatry published evidence from 7,000 Danish men that a high IQ in childhood predicted a lower rate of psychiatric disturbance in adulthood – a result which persisted when social class and birth weight were controlled for. {Such a protective effect of IQ is discussed in The g Factor, Chapter 4, which points out that schizophrenia is less severe and disruptive when IQ is higher.}

The Daily Telegraph, too, dared to give IQ a mention, venturing that Cherie Blair, if she were to become an M.P. would “raise the average IQ of the Commons significantly” (12 viii). And IQ even figured centrally in the plot of a new film, Pretty Persuasion, in which super-high-IQ and pretty teenagerettes plotted revenge on an authoritarian schoolmaster (Film Threat, 5 viii).



FILM TO KILL PEECEE

Backed by a multi-millionaire, a fresh-faced 32-year-old computer whizz from New York turned out to be scheduled to produce by the end of the year a send-up of peecee tyranny on U.S. campuses (Daily Telegraph, 13 viii). Director Evan Coyne Maloney believed his film would horrify many rich and elderly alumni and lead to a drying up of funding for American luniversities.

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RACE-REALIST PROFESSOR BACKED BY STUDENTS, UNION PRESIDENT AND GOVERNMENT MINISTER

As Macquarie LUniversity's public law expert Drew Fraser (picture) prepared for a showdown with his multiculti academic bosses, he received strong support from his students - according to The Australian (1 viii). As well as not wanting their course disrupted, students (including one girl from Vietnam) said Professor Fraser was a good teacher, not a racist in any usual sense of that term, and was anyhow surely entitled to free speech.

Reeling under this blow, the LUniversity may have taken consolation from being given the backing of the New South Wales supremo of the National Tertiary Education Union; but it still had no support from the union's Macquarie branch president, Judy Goyen, who called for Professor Fraser to be able to publicize his views, and a new blow landed on it as youthful Federal Government Education Minister Dr Brendan Nelson, a Canberra Liberal, said it was wrong to ban the professor from teaching (Sydney Morning Herald, 1 viii).

Professor Fraser's trials with his LUniversity had begun when he wrote using his university address to a suburban newspaper saying that Australia was at risk of becoming `a Third World colony' thanks to its politicians encouraging non-Anglo-Celtic immigration. {Professor Fraser turned up on campus as promised to meet his 60 students and to encourage them to demand the continuation of his lecture course - though the lecture hall they normally used had been locked against them and secured by guards sent by peroxide-blonde and wrinkled Vice-Chancellor `Lady Di' Yerbury. Fraser's student, Andrew Tennant, said:

"We were just basically trying to hand out some pamphlets saying that free speech is an important issue at Macquarie University and that any lecturer, no matter how far out or extravagant his view should be, he should be allowed to speak and that a university historically is a place for a marketplace of ideas and that they should be allowed to speak and the university should really not get involved in that kind of debate?"

As this happened, DF's case - already mentioned in American Renaissance (29 vii) -- was achieving further publicity in America from VDare (http://vdare.com/sailer/050731_fraser.htm1 viii) - in an article by Steve Sailer which (while omitting any mention of Arthur Jensen, Richard Lynn or Phil Rushton) included a brave discussion of Africa's "endemic cretinism." But the press in the Workers' Paradise was not so sympathetic: Professor Fraser was headlined not as being locked out but as "skipping his lectures" by the Australian, the Melbourne Herald Sun, the Daily Telegraph (Australia), the Brisbane Courier Mail, the Advertiser Adelaide and News.com.au.}


UNION AND STUDENTS BACK FREE SPEECH FOR RACE-REALIST

In a surprise move, Australia's 26,000-strong Melbourne-based National Tertiary Education Union announced its belief that academics should be able to speak freely in public and its determination to ensure that Professor Andrew Fraser should be treated fairly according to the terms of his contract and standard university procedures (2 viii) - the implication being that the union thought Macquarie's teaching ban an over-reaction to an essentially minor incident (in which Prof. Fraser had sent his race-realist views to a suburban newspaper from his university address). The union added: "Universities have a responsibility to promote critical discussion and debate." Meanwhile, Macquarie's exiled public law lecturer was enjoying a groundswell of support from former students and from 2005 students. Colourful banners declaring "Support Free Speech! Let Drew Teach!" appeared around the north-western Sydney campus (Daily Telegraph [Oz], 3 viii). Macquarie, which calls itself `Australia's Innovative University,' is a strongly postgraduate university, with 34% of its 30,000 students being enrolled for second degrees. {The similarity of Professor Fraser's battle with my own in Edinburgh of 1996/7 was noted at the Australian race-realist websites, `Sydney Bluegum', `G-Gnome Rides Out' and `Majority Rights'.}


TOP POLITICOS EDGE AWAY FROM MULTICULTURALISM

In the aftermath of the London Tube bombings (killing 56), Tory leadership aspirant David Davis told the Telegraph (3 viii) that multiculturalism was finished, that Britain needed to reclaim its borders and have a Department of Homland Security, that Britain should stop dishing out `human rights' to all and sundry, that foreign men with prison records in Britain should not qualify for British citizenship and that he favoured allowing preaching and teaching in mosques and Muslim faith schools only under licence, allowing the police to use racial profiling when stopping and searching suspects, and allowing phone tap evidence in court in terror hearings. {Davis covered his backside by pointing out that Campaign for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips had announced `multiculturalism was dead' sixteen months ago (Times, 3 iv 2004; Diary, iv 2004); his advocacy of racial profiling was backed by a top ethnic man at the Met; his fellow Shadow Cabinet member, Gerald Howarth, called for Muslims who justify terror bombings to leave Britain; senior Tory Michael Portillo had written for the Times that the era of multiculturalism was over (17 vii), to be replaced with magnanimous monoculturalism; and Davis would have been pleased to find Foreign Secretary Jack Straw agreeing with him about Islam needing to be provided only under license. However, at the same time the UK Home Office (under one Hazel Blears while Messrs Clarke, Blair and Straw were on holiday) said the police should act only on the basis of intelligence and declined to specify it would be `intelligent' to concentrate bomb searches on Afro-Arab males rather than on White grannies; and Mrs Cherie Blair told the Guardian that judges should dish out more human rights a.s.a.p.} {After ten years of European and American effort to create multicultural societies in Bosnia and Kosovo, the New York Review of Books (Tim Judah, viii) noted that it would take "just a spark" to return these places to civil war.}



BRITAIN CAN'T STOP PASSPORT SMUGGLER

The lunatic state of Britain's preparedness to deal with terror and illegal immigration was revealed when British officials announced they were unable to detain a `British citizen' [newly minted] found with 452 blank European passports in his luggage (Sydney Morning Herald, 5 viii).


THEORY THEORY LOSING GRIP ON AMERICA

Postmodern relativism, stemming from a failure to respect human intelligence as a reality-detector, may at last be on the wane in the universities it made its own - those of America's Demmocrat-dominated state sector (Wall Street Journal, 4 viii). {The death of `Theory' [aka Critical Theory = all capitalistic and scientific ideas have detectable problems, therefore Lenin was right] was announced last year in Britain by a leading Marxite previous advocate, Prof. Terry Eagleton (see Diary, May 2004).}


MUSLIM MODERATION? - `DON'T BELIEVE IT!' SAYS "Guardian"

Continuing its balancing act to try to hold together the New and Livingstonian sides of the Labour Party, the Grauniad (4 viii) published a think-piece from a Muslim, one Hanif Kureishi. Could Rev. Blair achieve his wish to deal with the merry moderate Muslim majority of his imagination? `No way, Jose!' said Hanif. He had been to plenty of `moderate' mosques where abuse of the West, the Jews and, above all, homosexuals was very marked - and when he tried to record it he was dumped out on the stree by burly Islamic scholars. More generally, wrote Hanif, Islam opposes the use of reason, argument or evidence except in the service of faith. Needless to say, Hanif found British Mohammedanism "claustrophobic" and "stultifying" - in short, quite unsuitable for Guardian readers.


BLECKS SEEK REVENGE ON RACE-REALIST

Seething at Blacks being called low-IQ, Australia's `African Communities Council' announced it would seek redress against Macquarie LUniversity's Professor Andrew Fraser from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. At a packed meeting at Macquarie, Professor Fraser told a howling mob they would rue the day. {An article in the Sydney Morning Herald (6 viii) noted that, back in 1977, Professor Hans Eysenck had been shielded by guards at Macquarie so that he could speak - which he had been unable to do at Sydney University. But a SMH columnist suggested Professor Fraser was either "pig ignorant" or "plain barking mad."}


TOP LEFT COLUMNIST DENOUNCES MODERN ISLAM

Observer readers all over Britain could be heard choking over their muesli as long-standing lefty columnist Nick Cohen got off the fence and condemned today's Islam as "homophobic, mysogynist, racist, imperialist, tyrannical, homicidal." - Yes, Islam has some good features..but it's nice to know that the White traitors who invented PeeCee are no longer able to agree what these are. On the other hand, as lefties bickered over whether mad mullahs should be indicted as traitors, one of them, `the Tottenham ayatollah' managed to slip away to Lebanon. {Prime Minister Winston Churchill had set a precedent for locking up sworn enemies in times of war when, in 1940, he detained 1,000 leading Mosleyites - though not least for their own safety.}


RACE-REALIST PROFESSOR DEFENDED

After twenty academics at Macquarie LUniversity had written to their Vice-Chancellor complaining of the treatment meted out to Professor Andrew Fraser when he wrote to a newspaper saying Black people had on average a low IQ and high testosterone, one of them, law lecturer Lawrence McNamara, spoke out to defend Fraser at a 300-strong meeting of Macquarie staff (The Australian, 10 viii).


STREAMING REALISM VINDICATED

A Glasgow school announced that its results were 19% better after four years of streaming pupils according to ability. St Paul's High School, Pollok, one of Glasgow's 29 state-run secondary schools, had adopted streaming in English and Maths in 1999, then extended the principle to all classes in 2001. By 2005 they had their result: a 25% boost in the exam results of better students, a 19% boost on average, and a 4% boost for duller kids (all of which boosts compared with a 1.5% `inflation' driven rise for Scotland as a whole (Daily Mail [print version], 9 viii). The Times weighed in to the battle, saying LSE research showed comprehensive schools produced less social mobility, that Northern Irish people were well content with their `divided' grammar vs comprehensive system, and that 80% of 11 year olds finally stuck to their own predictions of whether they would or would not stay on at school for higher education - so why couldn't the authorities use such statements of intent to route children either into academic or business-related studies?


OBSERVER/GUARDIAN ADMITS THE g FACTOR

In an amazing lapse from peecee principles, Health Editor Jo Revill casually announced to lefties the existence of "general intelligence," its links to maths and reading abilities, and of ""general" genes" governing "achievement at school" (Observer 7 viii or BNN[John Ray] 10 viii).

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UNION AND STUDENTS BACK FREE SPEECH FOR RACE-REALIST

In a surprise move, Australia’s 26,000-strong Melbourne-based National Tertiary Education Union announced its belief that academics should be able to speak freely in public and its determination to ensure that Professor Andrew Fraser, 61, should be treated fairly according to the terms of his contract and standard university procedures (2 viii) – the implication being that they thought Macquarie’s teaching ban an over-reaction to an essentially minor incident. The union added: “Universities have a responsibility to promote critical discussion and debate.” Meanwhile, Macquarie's exiled public law lecturer was enjoying a groundswell of support from former and from 2005 students. Colourful banners declaring "Support Free Speech! Let Drew Teach!" appeared around the north-western Sydney campus (Daily Telegraph [Oz], 3 viii).

{Macquarie -- which calls itself ‘Australia’s Innovative University’ and says it is “research-driven, flexible, interdisciplinary, richly international and boldly entrepreneurial” -- is a strongly postgraduate university, with 34% of its 30,000 students enrolled for second degrees.}

BRITAIN BUGGERS ON

As Islamist bombs killed 56 in London, triggering an orgy of political correctness by the police, British politicians set an example to the nation by going on holiday. – As well they might, for Labour (see Guardian contributors, e.g. Jonathan Freedland vs others) was split down the middle over whether to back the Jews or the Muslims and whether to grant the whole world ‘human rights’ to stay in Britain on welfare while would-be immigrants’ cases are considered and appealed for years on end without their in any event being removed. (Mr and Mrs Blair were particularly at loggerheads, the former spiritedly saying he wouldn’t give Muslims an inch, the latter saying British judges should take over from politicians and issue even more rights on the basis of their powers from Brussels – see Guardian, 28 vii, where she won the blessing of the editor).

The Tories, too, largely holidayed, with none of their 197 candidates for their leadership feeling able to say anything much about anything; though in the Spectator the Tories’ own rift was clear to see, with brave-and-boyish Boris Johnson saying that Islamofascism could be dealt with by British bobbies, but hard-man Mark Steyn saying the West needed a full scale wake-up war on terror since the Islamists had in recent years taken over Pakistan, Iran, Chechnya, Bosnia and Sudan and were busily establishing themselves in Kashmir, Thailand (where 10% of people have in recent years moved home to get away from Muslims) and Nigeria (now 50% under Sharia law).

Meanwhile what remained in the UK of the Government took five days to establish whether a Brazilian killed with seven bullets to the head in London by plain clothes police had or had not been in the country legally – eventually it turned out the Home Office stamp in his passport giving ‘right of indefinite stay’ was a forgery; and the Government Minister for Northern Ireland, ex-anti-apartheid activist Peter Hain, completed the U.K.’s 50-year struggle against the IRA with a complete and final sell-out, releasing top Eirish psychopaths and beginning to withdraw the Army from the now fully divided province, allowed to develop its own apartheid system of Caff and Prod regions – presumably a harbinger of what Britoid politicians will provide on the mainland in response to Islamist terror.

For British intellectuals, Prof. John Gray of the LSE, was wheeled into the New York Review of Books (11 viii) to say that nationalism may or may not be the coming response to globalization and Pax Americana – thereby agreeing with what I wrote in American Renaissance in March, but failing to say which versions of nationalism might catch on or how the West’s current peecee religiosity might be replaced.


RACE-REALIST PROFESSOR BACKED BY STUDENTS AND UNION PRESIDENT

As Macquarie LUniversity’s Drew Fraser prepared for a showdown with his multiculti academic bosses, he received strong support from his students – according to The Australian (1 viii). As well as not wanting their course disrupted, students (including one girl from Vietnam) said Professor Fraser was a good teacher, not a racist in any usual sense of that term, and was anyhow entitled to free speech. Reeling under this blow, the LUniversity may have taken consolation from being given the backing of the New South Wales supremo of the National Tertiary Education Union; but it still had no support from the union’s Macquarie branch president, Judy Goyen, who called for the Professor Fraser to be able to publicize his views.


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RACE-REALIST PROFESSOR BACKED BY STUDENTS AND UNION PRESIDENT

As Macquarie LUniversity’s public law expert Drew Fraser (picture) prepared for a showdown with his multiculti academic bosses, he received strong support from his students – according to The Australian (1 viii). As well as not wanting their course disrupted, students (including one girl from Vietnam) said Professor Fraser was a good teacher, not a racist in any usual sense of that term, and was anyhow surely entitled to free speech. Reeling under this blow, the LUniversity may have taken consolation from being given the backing of the New South Wales supremo of the National Tertiary Education Union; but it still had no support from the union’s Macquarie branch president, Judy Goyen, who called for the Professor Fraser to be able to publicize his views. Professor Fraser’s trials with his LUniversity had begun when he wrote to a suburban newspaper saying that Australia was at risk of becoming ‘a Third World colony.’

{Professor Fraser turned up on campus as promised to meet his students and to encourage them to demand the continuation of his lecture course – though the lecture hall they normally used was apparently blocked off by guards despatched by peroxide-blonde and wrinkled Vice-Chancellor ‘Lady Di’ Yerbury. As this happened, DF’s case – already mentioned in American Renaissance (29 vii) -- was achieving further publicity in America from VDare (1 viii) – in an article by Steve Sailer which (while omitting any mention of Arthur Jensen, Richard Lynn or Phil Rushton) included a brave discussion of Africa’s “endemic cretinism.”}