Derbyshire; Primer on how/why whites should eschew blacks gets ass fired by NRO

[Torie]

Yes, John Derbyshire finally let it all hang out.  His little essay about Bayes meets blacks means whites should not meet blacks, got his ass fired on Saturday by National Review. The editor of National Review, Mr Lowry was concerned that Derbyshire's association with NRO was giving Derbyshire's attitudes about blacks far too much oxygen.

John, you should get out more. I just don't think you could hold those views if you met real people, and made an effort to interact with them on their own terms. You are really missing out.

[Torie]

P.S. Nathan,

Derbyshire's children are Eurasian. So Torie should have wrote "Primer on how/why Eurasians should eschew Blacks." Derbyshire  told his children to get used to the fact that Blacks would consider them "White." Torie seems to have made the same mistake.

Does the below resolve your beef?  Because if it does, you know what they say: a dime's worth of accuracy can cost a dollar in confusion. Plus the headline is less punchy. I suppose the second fix below is the punchiest of them all, but unfortunately then you would point out that blacks are part of the "everyone," and round and round we would go.

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[Torie]

Sam Spade has clearly read the Unheavenly City, which I notice Banfield subsequent to my reading it, has "revisited."  Anyway, one of Banfield's claims was that there had been very little upward mobility among blacks who were slaves until the Emancipation Proclamation. I suspect there was more truth to that claim then, than now. Murray I think picked up on the theme when he noted that the top students in some High School in black Miami, all had French names (they were from Haiti).  So as a codicil to Derb's do's and don'ts, if you happen by a "black beach" and you hear Caribbean accents, Derbyshire should be reassured.