Friday, January 12, 2007
SHADES OF ALICE BAILEY IN A TOP SCIENTIST ?
Scientist James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and a Nobel Prize winner, says anti-Semitism is justified, in a recent magazine interview.
The ADL called Dr. Watson's remarks about Jews "disturbing" and is asking Watson to clarify them.
Watson, 78, who lives in Cold Harbor, N.Y., tells Esquire magazine in its January edition that anti-Semitism, in some circumstances, is justified.
In an interview profile for the magazine Watson asks rhetorically, "Should you be allowed to make an anti-Semitic remark?" He answered: "Yes, because some anti-Semitism is justified. Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society."
Apparently a firm believer in eugenics, Watson also feels "Ashkenazi Jews" - Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities in the area of Germany - have higher intelligence than other people.
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If he objects to political correctness, I sympathize. I agree that we should be able to criticize when we strongly object to what is being said or done, even if the person doing it happens to be Jewish. But couple his position on anti-Semitism with eugenics and the picture shifts to something ugly and straight out of the concentration camps--a whole different matter entirely.
