Which "intellectual" (I use this term loosely) has had the most pernicious influence on American public discourse? Charles Murray seems like a very strong contender, but I'm open to other suggestions.
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Which of the 15+ books by @charlesmurray have you actually read? Which ones did you find most pernicious and which ones least pernicious? Just curious.
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Even if this guy's read the Bell Curve, the idea that Murray has had pernicious negative effects is silly.https://twitter.com/RayMcCue/status/1215653072170516480?s=20 …
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It doesn't matter if he's read it. Like all ideologues, he simply assigns incorrect attribution for science/assertions arriving at different conclusions to his. eg. Jeet Heer nominated John Locke therefore Liberalism = pernicious while enjoying the fruits of said wickedness.
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I have a feeling our OP this time has probably read excerpts from exactly one chapter of one book. Give you one guess which chapter of which book.
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Perhaps the better question is which intellectual and ideas have been taken out of context the most and used to for pernicious effect in public discourse ?
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I rate Murray very highly as for dignity, eloquence, scientific rigor, honesty, knowledge, insight, & geniality. I hate it how ideological, hysteric progressives try to shut him down & prevent people from gaining understanding of real world phenomena through his brilliant work.
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Coming apart was very good imo.
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There should be an award for authors who get haunted by idiots who never read a single thing they've written. It should be presented by Salman Rushdie.
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The Bell Curve has bits that made my skin crawl. Also his one about welfare seemed pretry pernicious to me.
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