буковский о политкорректности

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toshick дал ссылку на выступление Буковского о политкорректности, прокомментировав его так: "С каждым разом я все больше и больше уважаю Буковского".

Я же, прочитав его, не знаю, что и сказать. Попробую выразиться помягче и сказать так: там очень много неправды, и этот текст создает впечатление - искренне надеюсь, ложное - того, что он написан неумным человеком.

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если вам нуже пример подобных неприятностей - то вот Самерса укатали за мнение (из вики)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_between_the_sexes

Differences between the sexes

In January 2005, at a Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Summers offended many people by his discussion of why women may have been underrepresented "in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions". In the previous year at Harvard, where Summers was president, 88 percent (28 of 32) of newly tenured faculty had been men.[17]

Summers began[18] by outlining three possible explanations for the higher proportion of men in high-end science and engineering positions. Two of the hypotheses were: (1) that women with children are unwilling or unable to work 80 hours per week in tenure track jobs and (2) that women are subject to both discrimination and different socialization. He argued that discrimination was economically unlikely because it would put institutions at a disadvantage compared to institutions that did not discriminate. And he dismissed socialization, claiming that research shows that socialization is rarely a factor in anything anyone thinks it is.[18]

His third and most controversial hypothesis was what he called "the different availability of aptitude at the high end". He said that his "best guess" was that "there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude". He said that this variation, combined with other factors, "probably explains a fair amount of this problem."[18]

Summers claimed that he was adopting an "entirely positive, rather than normative approach" and that his remarks were intended to be an "attempt at provocation."[18] Nancy Hopkins, a professor of biology at MIT, walked out during the talk in disgust.[19] Summers' lunch-time talk drew accusations of sexism and careless scholarship, and an intense negative response followed, both nationally and at Harvard.[19]

The controversy contributed to his resigning his position as president of Harvard University the following year, and David Usborne of The Independent asserted that the incident cost Summers the job of Treasury Secretary in Obama's administration.[20]