Angelus Novus: They believe that certain groups of people are inherently smarter than others. [clip]
And Tom writes: Academics are exempt from natural selection. --------- I think it was Hobbes who said something to the effect tht there was more difference between two dogs than between any two persons. But if you go back and read comments on Bush both on this list and lbo-talk you will find innumerable posts which focus on Bush's "stu0idity." In other words, leftists often find it impossible to talk about a politician or a theorist without implying that there is a difference of intelligence involved. But intelligence (intellect) is NOT a feature of persons; it is a matter of context. A person is either intelligent or unintelligent in relation to contexts. All statements aboaut the intelligence or lack of it in individuals are false. Bush was obviously more intelligent than Obama, since Obama has been able to do nothing except cross the t's and dot thei's and add italics to Bush's policy initiativesd. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
