Ben Stein's Expelled: Was Darwinism a Necessary Condition for the Holocaust?

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Ben Stein's Expelled: Was Darwinism a Necessary Condition for the Holocaust?

Dr. Kevin MacDonald

December 1, 2008

In my previous column, I noted the Stalinist tendencies of the leftists that are so entrenched in the academic world. The fact is that the academic left has never been concerned about truth. This is the fundamental message of my book, The Culture of Critique where I trace the involvement of Jewish intellectual activists in producing a leftist academic culture that promoted specifically Jewish goals, including lessening the political power and cultural influence of European-derived peoples and the eradication of anti-Semitism.

Chief among the bogeymen of these Jewish intellectuals is Darwinism. The war against Darwinism is a major theme of The Culture of Critique, and it persists as a constant drumbeat in our culture—from the cultural Marxists who are in charge of socializing our college students to a great many examples in popular culture.

Consider Ben Stein's film Expelled. Stein depicts Darwinism as a stifling orthodoxy that suppresses free inquiry into how things got this way. And in particular, the triumph of Darwinism has meant that the theory of intelligent design has been banished from the realm of reasonable discourse in the academic world.

Of course, intelligent design is not a reasonable alternative at all, but a highly motivated effort to legitimize a religious world view in the sciences. But why would Ben Stein produce a movie that panders to religious conservatives? It would doubtless be pretty hard to find anyone in the Jewish intelligentsia who in the privacy of their innermost thoughts believes in God.

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Occidental Observer

 

[Diuretic]

Read this:

April 26, 2007
Professor of Hate?

In December, the psychology department at California State University of Long Beach added three statements to its Web site — all under the new heading of “Statements on Controversial Issues.” One endorsed principles of academic freedom, another emphasized the department’s commitment to diversity and equity, and the third discussed the “misuse of psychologists’ work.”

That statement says: “The department of psychology regards it as deeply unethical that any faculty member knowingly allows his/her work to be used to support groups that disseminate views of racial/ethnic superiority and/or racial/ethnic hatred.... We are concerned that psychological research has been used in the past in intellectually unjustifiable and socially harmful ways, such as limiting immigration of certain groups or justifying unequal opportunities in education and employment. We wish to make it clear that these uses are distortions of scholarship in the field.”

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It pays to work out where someone's coming from, particularly when they're writing outside their area of academic expertise. Knowing this bloke's form is essential to get the context of his views in this article. I'll be sure to read his article carefully and then come back with a view or two.

 

[William Joyce]

I'll be sure to read his article carefully and then come back with a view or two.

That would put you in a league over most. In our society (and yours -- Google "Andrew Fraser"), "racist" is the new "communist" -- anyone so "blacklisted" doesn't get a fair hearing, only expulsion!

 

[William Joyce]

Interesting article. For me, ANYTHING a Jew says or does should be eyed carefully, skeptically. That's not to say I reject everything they say -- they are sometimes pretty bold, intellectually. But as Prof. MacDonald has shown, they have a strong tendency to advance views that end up benefitting them. Neoconservatism is a powerful example.

 

[editec]

Are we chumming the waters for Jews, this evening, boys?

Aren't there any windows you can break in the neighborhood or something?

 

[Sunni Man]

they have a strong tendency to advance views that end up benefitting them.

You mean "overwhelming" tendecy!!!

 

[Sunni Man]

Are we chumming the waters for Jews, this evening, boys?

You are right!

Where is DavidS and Jillian???

 

[Diuretic]

That would put you in a league over most. In our society (and yours -- Google "Andrew Fraser"), "racist" is the new "communist" -- anyone so "blacklisted" doesn't get a fair hearing, only expulsion!

I know the story with Andrew Fraser, it's apparently settled now.

 

[Diuretic]

Interesting article. For me, ANYTHING a Jew says or does should be eyed carefully, skeptically. That's not to say I reject everything they say -- they are sometimes pretty bold, intellectually. But as Prof. MacDonald has shown, they have a strong tendency to advance views that end up benefitting them. Neoconservatism is a powerful example.

Neoconservatism was more about Leo Strauss than Jews.

 

[mightypeon]

In my opinion, if you give someone like Torquemada (Chief inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition) or even just Luther the control over a industrialized Germany you will end up with a Holocaust.

Christians do not need Darwinism to start killing Jews.

Hitler was not that special, History is full of genocidial nutcases, but the average genocidial nutcase in history did not have the technology to conduct a holocaust.

 

[LandNeal]

You are right!

Where is DavidS and Jillian???

why am I not here? Sounds like another round of Religous HATE.

 

[Diuretic]

Look, the plain facts are that the academic quoted is just another Jew hater. His hatred taints his views. That's all folks.

 

[UptoDate]

Look, the plain facts are that the academic quoted is just another Jew hater. His hatred taints his views. That's all folks.

Post some quotes from Dr. Kevin Macdonald that are hatefull.

Then I'll post some quotes fron famous Jews and we shall compare.

You up to the challenge?

 

[bigdaddygtr]

That would put you in a league over most. In our society (and yours -- Google "Andrew Fraser"), "racist" is the new "communist" -- anyone so "blacklisted" doesn't get a fair hearing, only expulsion!

You don't deserve a fair hearing cause you've already made your feelings known that you liked Hitler and the separation of the races/white superiority BS that you were spouting in the other thread

You are a disgusting human being

 

[strollingbones]

damn i knew that bullshit was all an act....my male jewish friends....strap on leather around their forearms.....wear a box strapped to their heads with a bit of the torah in it and pray....and to learn none of them believe in god...i thought it was jesus?

 

[Diuretic]

Post some quotes from Dr. Kevin Macdonald that are hatefull.

Then I'll post some quotes fron famous Jews and we shall compare.

You up to the challenge?

Why would I bother?

 

[William Joyce]

Why would I bother?

Uh, because you said the professor who wrote the article "hates Jews", Diuretic. He's asking you to back that up. But as we all know, anyone who screeches "hater"! doesn't have to back up anything... it's an accusation and a conviction, all wrapped up in one tidy package!

The truth is that you can't even point out basic facts about Jews without being accused of "anti-Semitism."

That alone could be enough to make you an anti-Semite.

 

[SW2SILVERQUASI]

Stein's purview is economics. Hitler was a fascist totalitarian. I don't think Herr Hitler cared about facts, he wanted to rationalize hatred of anything outside his race, culture or mentality. He was looking for reasons to explain irrationality. Darwinism ? Just a theory, not dogma. Anyone here know the difference between scientific theory and irrational conformism? Hitler didn't and some you don't either. Creationism isn't any more scientific than National Socialism was.

 

[William Joyce]

Hitler was a fascist totalitarian. I don't think Herr Hitler cared about facts, he wanted to rationalize hatred of anything outside his race, culture or mentality. He was looking for reasons to explain irrationality. Darwinism ? Just a theory, not dogma. Anyone here know the difference between scientific theory and irrational conformism? Hitler didn't and some you don't either.

This is a kindergartner's take on Hitler. You may not have liked him, but saying he didn't care about facts or was irrational doesn't cut it. Unfortunately for his enemies, he was very rational.

 

[editec]

Was Darwinism a Necessary Condition for the Holocaust?

Of course not.

Wiping people out genocidally is a time honored way of eliminating the threat of the other.

Genocide and mass murder is way older than the theory of social Darwinism.

The oldest books we have recount tales of genocide and applaude those acts as great victories for whatever GOD they use as their excuse for killing the heathens.