Saturday, May 11, 2013

I do not know why Jason Richwine has opted for the facial grooming of a date rapist; perhaps it is a condition of his parole *


Puppet with bad facial hair [right]

The wonderful Intertuba invention has brought Jason Richwine, PhD, C.M.S-p to the world's attention, competing unfairly with our own home-grown shitweasels. Richwine is an erstwhile employee of one Republican front Thought Tonk who moved to a second Thought Tonk for a change of intellectual milieu. There he laboured in the Boilerplate factory preparing material to be stove-piped to the usual pukefunnel recipients.

Attention has recently turned to the PhD Richwine acquired from Harvard University in his gap year between Thought Tonks. His thesis revives the century-old argument that non-Anglo immigration to the US is a Bad Thing because the immigrants are too stupid to feed themselves unsupervised... with a global replacement of the specific list of genetically-inferior mud-people so that it now reads "Hispanics" instead of the original "Eastern and Southern Europeans (and Jews and the Irish)".

Richwine's list of references includes 8 citations of the work of Borjas, his chief examiner, which was probably politic. Linda Gottfredson features five times, she being the co-instigator (with David Brooks) of an egregious 1994 exercise in lending academic respectability to racism.** Six references to the theoretical stylings of J. Philippe Rushton.*** The Herrnstein-Murray "Bell Curve" is there, and eight references to Richwine's mentor, an AEI senior fellow and cross-burner:

Evidently AEI also sponsored the PhD, and provided Richwine with four interns to do the actual research, while Murray is further credited with 'expert editing':

Two questions come to mind:
1. Should not Harvard have awarded the doctorate directly to the organ-grinder AEI, skipping over the figurehead?

2. Is "mentor" a strong enough term for Murray's contribution? Perhaps "ghostwriter" would be better.

Alas, Richwine no longer works for Heritage, who do not wish to be linked to the stink of an overt white supremacist, although they do stand by the white-supremacy reports he prepared for them. This has led the defenders of Academic Freedom to worry about a chilling effect. However, Heritage policy holds that "workforce mobility" and job insecurity are Good Things, so Richwine is no doubt grateful for the chance to experience them.
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* Title changed because kids these days don't recognise Patti Smith lyrics.

** Gottfredson's intellectual odyssey -- to IQ/race quackery from a background in Holland-hexagon employment-psych. quackery -- is worthy of a post in itself.

*** Rushton of black-dick-size fixation fame. He was convinced that black males are stupider than white males because they have larger penes, because dick size and brain size are mutually incompatible, according to a K/r reproductive strategy argument all of his own. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. This theory required him to peruse Penthouse Forum for evidence, which is the BEST EXCUSE EVAH, and to ask his students to rate their own appendages. Liberal scientists are not advised to try this.
The late Rushton never pursued the obvious corollary that women of any race are smarter than men; perhaps the possibility that breed-stock could be intelligent did not occur to him.

18 comments:

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Alas, Richwine no longer works for AEI, who do not wish to be linked to the stink of an overt white supremacist

He went full bigot. Never go full bigot.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

A.E.I. is full of covert racists, of course.

Remember, they advanced the theory that the Wall Street asset bubble was created because the mean government made the hapless giant banks make bad loans to black people.
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El Manquécito said...

Some years ago there was a [strike]study[/strike] internet thing about the 'trustworthiness' of different styles of male chin hair patterns that placed this guy's choice (cat's ass) two or three steps above the 'honest Abe', a mustacheless beard from ear to ear along the jaw line. When I questioned the result, noting that where I live men who choose this tonsorial style are proclaiming aggressive bubba-ness, including racism, anti-science, pro-NASCAR, JD Crowe-Magnon type beliefs I was spanked (virtually) by some academic friends because many of their friends/professors/fathers had worn their chins this way. This drove me to the last resort; experimentation. I grew and maintained a cat's ass for a year and found that while it made small, marginal positive affects on my relations with other bubbas the biggest change was that black folks all assumed that I had the sheet and pointed hood back home. I never considered the date rapist angle but I do believe this beard style to be deeply wrong in our times, such as they are.

tigris said...

Puppet with bad facial hair [right]

You kidding? That guy is a fox!

tigris said...

the facial grooming of a date rapist

And the hair of a barbershop chorister.

mikey said...

Any facial hair that requires careful maintenance - particularly maintenance that can go catastrophically bad if performed poorly - represents a kind of narcissism typically on display among men who, in their younger days, liked to start fires and torture small animals...

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Just throwin' this out there, for no reason at all.
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El Manquécito said...

Is there some evidence, perhaps an internet tradition of which I am unaware, associating this pattern of shaving with date rape? Inappropriate advances, sure, drunken groping perhaps, but I'd like to see the studies. The haircut I would have no trouble believing date rape about.

Smut Clyde said...

Every internet tradition gotta start somewhere.

Yastreblyansky said...

Please note the facial hair of National Review Online's newest immigrant slave, Mr. Charles C.W. Cooke, meant I believe to suggest that Jeeves has been visiting a sick aunt.

Smut Clyde said...

That photograph of Cooke does indeed lead one to suspect the presence of a scarlet cummerbund. Also, heliotrope pyjamas.

Yastreblyansky said...

Yes indeed! Bertie would take the heliotrope pyjamas out of the drawer just because Jeeves was away, but Jeeves wouldn't be able to stay away, too concerned about the possibility that Bertie might attempt to shave himself; and then he'd catch the last of the Woosters in the heliotrope pyjamas and look unutterably sad. "I don't believe those pyjamas suit you, sir," he'd say before donating them to the Christmas panto costuming stock.

El Manquécito said...

Needs more Roderick Spode.

Substance McGravitas said...

No researcher or academic institution is safe if this smear campaign succeeds.

Perhaps some academic institutions may face FUNDING CUTS.

Smut Clyde said...

Needs more Roderick Spode.
Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?

M. Bouffant said...

meant I believe to suggest that Jeeves has been visiting a sick aunt
The guy's a four-namer; what would you expect?

El Manquécito said...

Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?

OK, I laffed. Still laffing.

Yastreblyansky said...

What Manquécito said.