Charles Murray, RIP

 

Charles Murray 

By Nicholas Stix

No, he hasn’t kicked the bucket. It’s worse. He’s morally dead.

Last spring, Charles Murray bragged of his magnum opus, The Bell Curve, which he co-wrote with Richard Herrnstein, “We pulled a lot of punches in that book.” Note that they were brutally attacked as “racists,” anyway. But why would a scholar brag about fudging his results? That’s the sort of thing you’re supposed to be ashamed of, and live in dread of being discovered, like a history of incest. But Murray bragged about it!

I responded to Murray at the time with a mock headline:

Journalist Last Heard Expressing Curiosity About Bell Curve in Newsroom Found Choked to Death; Colleagues Made Him Eat His Words

Then, after years of being ostracized from the New York Times Book Review, Murray wrote a book that was supposed to be his swan song, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (not to be confused with my work, The State of White America-2007), and took a dive. He beat up on white men, without giving the context of their dispossession via feminism, affirmative action, and mass third-world immigration.

He got his mess of pottage, and all it cost him was his soul.

And now, this:

US National Character Unaffected by Demographics

By 2045, Hispanics, Asians and African Americans are expected to grow from more than a third of the population to a little more than half of the people living in the United States. [I say, by 2025.]

“The degree of cultural diversity that this introduces to this country is rather like the cultural diversity we had in the 19th century, and for that matter in the 18th century at the time of founding,” observed American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray. In many ways, according to Murray, diversity has been a positive force throughout America history.

“We used to have radically different ways of life among different groups in this country. And the 20th century was something of an anomaly in this regard as we saw an increasingly homogeneous culture with the rise of mass media,” Murray said. “In many ways, I think the America of the 21st century with its increased cultural diversity is going to look familiar to historians of America. And in that respect, it’s as American as apple pie.”

“Americanization” predated the inventions of the radio, TV, and the Internet. The only mass medium in existence at the time was the press.

As phorning commented today at American Renaissance,

How disappointing. Murray not only has to know better, he has to know this isn't going to spare him any of the hate he receives for telling the truth in The Bell Curve. Our popular culture and mass media are disgusting. Why would anyone think they are creating something worth celebrating?