Dr. Watson indifferent to feelings.

Nobel prize-winning scientist Professor James Watson voiced the opinion that differences in skin color are not the only thing that could have resulted from lengthy periods of geographical separation between the races – which resulted in the loss of his job. A college student makes this excellent observation about the danger of expressing even scientific truth in the U.S.:

What is most ironic of all, is that those same people that championed the theory of evolution to their own political and social ends, now seem totally incapable of accepting where those theories lead… to the possibility that natural selection combined with thousands of years of geographic separation produced more differences than just skin color. But the point is not whether Watson was right or wrong, but that he is not allowed to express an opinion. The moral outrage witnessed made a mockery of true science. Instead of being told how and why Watson was wrong, we were told that he can’t say what he said because it offends people. The cry that scientific truth is subordinate to people's feelings is of course the height of hypocrisy. Where were people’s feelings when they were being told that they descended from monkeys?

Anonymous student quoted in "Racial Racketeering." By Nikola, Victory or Death, 11/4/07.