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Sat May 2, 2015, 08:16 PM May 2015

Jeb says he's a fan of author of what's been described as a "scabrous piece of racial pornography"

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Can'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 OP
Bob Herbert..... daleanime May 2015 #1
The Bell Curve book is based on racism Gothmog May 2015 #2
The Bell Curve has been shown to be vile bullshit over and over ismnotwasm May 2015 #3
Effing disgusting and hurlworthy. stevenleser May 2015 #4
Wow... just wow XemaSab May 2015 #5

ismnotwasm

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3. The Bell Curve has been shown to be vile bullshit over and over
Sat May 2, 2015, 11:29 PM
May 2015

And this asshole Bush resurrects the author. I could literally vomit.

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