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To: Neeka who wrote (101328)2/20/2005 7:58:35 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (1) of 793830
 
RE Summers: I think this is why it's such a hot button issue. LindyBill posted it here already & Nadine also hit on this issue.....

..."I think it's worse than (sic) you say, and Larry Summers is in deep doo-doo.

He pretty much laid out the entire case against the "diversity" racket. He even included the most telling argument of all, the one that says: "Look, if, as you claim, there is this pool of super-talented people who are being passed over because of 'discrimination,' then why doesn't some academic entrepreneur sweep them all up and create a super-department out of them?"

These things must not be said. Once you open these doors, there is no telling where thought will lead you. The diversity business is huge -- just look at its glossy magazine, DIVERSITY INC. It will not be mocked. Summers is toast."

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...."Far from demanding the evidence, the women mathematicians didn't want to discuss the evidence. They just got the vapors and began hyperventilating to the press. They must know if they follow the question at all, that there is a great deal of evidence backing differing paths of mental development and interests between the sexes. The most likely explanation now seems to be that women generally have from infancy a greater interest and competence in inter-personal relations than men do, which naturally might lead them away from purely abstract fields like mathematics towards more people-intensive fields.

So any discussion of the evidence would only get in the way of the outraged hyperventilating."

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