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To: JohnM who wrote (191611)	6/14/2012 11:19:51 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543868

<<I'm certainly not doing that. This conversation was about your observation that: For whatever reason the south is very anti intellectual. It is all connected. How do the Southern High schools match up to the northern High schools? Bigotry and tyranny are alwasy the result of two primary variables ignorance and cultural values <<Which is not an observation about suffering and explanations. Very intellectual "cultures" are, in fact, quite capable of inflicting serious suffering. Take the inexplicable descent of Germany into Nazism in the 30s as one example.>> Germany decended into nazism because it was always a very very militaristic country. Same with Japan and both very conforming cultures. When the depression came to Germany, that was what allowed the evil to rise with nothing to stop it. Both countries were too immersed in conformity. who would stand up? Only two professors stood up to Hitler at Lipzieg university and one of them was Einstein. <<You've got two things confused here. The one is the degree of suffering inflicted on blacks in the south with variations in intellectuality. It definitely was "dumbness" that explained racism not only in the south but in the country. Well that persists even now. It's severe bigotry which intellectuals can practice as readily as "dumb" folk.>> Intellectuals, liberals and dems do not, by and large, practise bigotry to the extent of Republican's which is why over 90% of blacks vote Democratic in every election and 80% of scientists lean Demoratic. Apply some statistics to those numbers. The south is a sea of solid red.