The Shaming of James Watson & The Cowardice of the Right

[The Lawspeaker]

[Oneeye]

Absolutely agree. Cuckservatives letting us down.

[Morena]

I have a slightly different take on this. What distressed me the most wasn't that people were piling on because they thought he was wrong (although I don't think he's wrong), it was because they didn't respect the fact that he was very old. In my opinion, there should be a certain grace and patience extended to those who are of a certain age. Even if they are incorrect or say something outrageous, the fact that they are elderly should still engender some respect.
At the very most, they should be gentle in their disagreement. (for example: I simply could not laugh along with everyone else when Fidel Castro fell as an 80 year-old-man, even if he was evil, because all I saw as a very old man falling.) This modicum of respect for the elderly was something that was once enshrined in our society. The fact that we, as a society, do not give this very basic respect to those who those who are of such advanced age is a symptom of our decline.

Of course, he was right. And I don't know why anyone expects Ben Shapiro to be intellectually honest. But what I took from it was that our society simply does not respect their elders anymore.

[MissMischief]

An eminent scientist makes a stupid racist remark and is demonized for years and pretty much ostracized from society as a result. For all its stupidity, however, his statement is unlikely to have a very detrimental effect on people's lives because very few people share his opinions.

Dozens of eminent politicians, academics, industrialists etc. endanger the welfare of our whole planet by repeatedly and cynically denying the science of climate change in order to further their own vested interests yet suffer little or no ostracism. Some even get promoted for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Inhofe

As a species, we really do lack a sense of proportion.

[Red Pill]

An eminent scientist makes a stupid racist remark and is demonized for years and pretty much ostracized from society as a result. For all its stupidity, however, his statement is unlikely to have a very detrimental effect on people's lives because very few people share his opinions.

Dozens of eminent politicians, academics, industrialists etc. endanger the welfare of our whole planet by repeatedly and cynically denying the science of climate change in order to further their own vested interests yet suffer little or no ostracism. Some even get promoted for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Inhofe

As a species, we really do lack a sense of proportion.

His remark may even be stupid or incorrect (I will not comment on this here) but the problem is the automatic assumption that the remark and the person who made it is racist.

It's not true that very few people (who work in science - the ones whose opinion matters in this topic) share his opinions. They are just not brave (or stupid) enough to utter them in public.
Look at this new paper, posted on another thread: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/1/1/17/htm
The conclusions point in the direction of Watson's, but are published on a scientific journal with a language mostly intelligible only to other scientists. Had the authors made the same statement on the mass-media they probably would have been subjected to a similar outrage as Watson or Murray-Herrnstein.