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TPM LivewireCan't Unring That Bell: Jeb Bush Says He's A Fan Of Charles Murray's Books
____ Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared himself to be a fan of controversial social scientist Charles Murray's books at a forum Thursday in Washington.
Bush lauded Murray's books on two separate occasions during an interview with National Review editor Rich Lowry, at a forum sponsored by the conservative magazine...
Murray is the author of the highly influential 1984 book Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 which argued that social welfare programs of the 1960s and 1970s actually hurt the poor rather than helped. It was and remains a seminal work in the conservative policy canon.
Ten years later Murray authored the highly controversial The Bell Curve, which he co-authored with Richard Herrnstein. Critics denounced it as racist, saying it essentially argued that African-Americans aren't as intelligent as white Americans because of genetic differences. In 1994 Bob Herbert, then a columnist at The New York Times, described the book as a "scabrous piece of racial pornography masquerading as serious scholarship."
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Jeb says he's a fan of author of what's been described as a "scabrous piece of racial pornography" (Original Post)
bigtree
May 2015
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. Bob Herbert.....
was too polite.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)2. The Bell Curve book is based on racism
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)3. The Bell Curve has been shown to be vile bullshit over and over
And this asshole Bush resurrects the author. I could literally vomit.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)4. Effing disgusting and hurlworthy.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)5. Wow... just wow
That's gonna be a tar baby.
What?