Thank God he's stepping down. Watson's comments reek of Aryan nonsense. I'd
like to think that his age is the simple excuse for his racism, that he was
raised in a time when white surety of black inferiority was a given. I'd like
to think so... Still, attitudes like Watson's are why I get nervo
It is not his age. as I told someone on my women in microbiology list,
he's been espousing his eugenics wisdom regarding women, Latin
Americans, Africans, people with disabilities and gays for decades. This
is just the first time it was on the public international stage.
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by age, i meant, can this be explained away by him being born back in 1928, and
reared in a racist society? I like to think that geneticists born, say 20 -30
years ago aren't this bigoted.
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