N.S.: I used to sometimes like Conrad Black's writing, but either he's been going downhill, or I had caught him writing out of character.
My experience is that when people say, "The problem is your tone," they're lying, and really don't like what you're saying.
In 1998, Bill Kristol <a href=https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2013/04/up-from-cuny.html>published a pseudonymous essay of mine</a> on the old City College of New York, which had for generations had much tougher admissions and graduation standards than Harvard. (None of the Kennedy brothers would have been admitted to CCNY.)
I then pitched a 2,000-word report on college remedial education, about which <a href=https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-cuny-remedial-education-debate.html>I was then</a> the nation's <a href=http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2010/11/q-should-colleges-offer-remedial.html>leading scholar and critic</a> (not that the racial socialists running the field would ever have acknowledged me as such, but Steven Farron did devote two pages to my work on "affirmative grading," in his masterpiece 2005 book, <I>The Affirmative Action Hoax</I>).
Although I didn't breathe a word about I.Q., Kristol reneged on his promise to publish the report. When I called up and asked one of his deputy editors, Claudia Schaeffer (sp.) what the problem was, she said, "I don't think Bill liked the tone."
If a manuscript that said nothing about I.Q. and backed itself up with examples had an unacceptable "tone," then no possible "tone:" would have been acceptable. Schaeffer was lying for Kristol. It was the facts that were the problem, not the tone.
The reason I didn't mention I.Q. in my manuscript was not due to opportunism, but because I was then an I.Q.-denialist.
Back in 1990, I had done a quick study of I.Q. for a section of a 30,000-word manuscript, "A Black Cultural Revolution? Our Racism is Better than Yours," for my magazine, <I>A Different Drummer</I>. I had been deceived by lying, communist—if you'll pardon the redundancy—I.Q.-deniers Stephen Jay Gould and Leon Kamin. Only in 1999 or 2000, did I learn how I had been conned.
The problem with Bill Kristol was that he was, and is, a coward and a cynic.
That was an early experience with what passes for "Republican intellectuals."
What Conrad Black is advising Trump to do resembles the advice that Democrat and Never-Trump concern trolls were advising him to do on cable news shows in 2016.
If Donald Trump had had a less abrasive tone, he'd presently be "former presidential candidate Donald Trump," would never so much as have won the Republican nomination, and would be a frequent butt of jokes by President Hillary Clinton. 'That sounds like something Donald Trump would say.'
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