Subject: Re: RSM and White supremacy!
From: Mike Tuggle <mikectuggle@att.net>
Date: 12/23/09, 17:52
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Barrett,

But you're so crafty, you cleverly disguised your real intentions by NOT doing those things. 

But seriously, one can be a "white nationalist" and not be a "white supremacist."  Not that McCain is either; again, he can speak for himself.

Anyway, it's time to wrap presents and check the oil for a long drive.  Congratulations on the book, and have a Merry Christmas.  Sincerely.

Mike


At 03:14 PM 12/23/2009, you wrote:
Howdy-

I understand your objections, particularly to the manner in which certain charges, such as that of racism, tend to stick whether or not there is anything to them. I'm not accustomed to making such charges; McCain is the exception for reasons I've already stated and which I will lay out more comprehensively in the chapter I'll be finishing up this week.

As for your simile, if you were to find that I had been writing messages on Reese Witherspoon fan sites under some assumed name which itself was drawn from the annals of Witherspoon, you might indeed be inclined to suspect that I have a crush on Reese Witherspoon, particularly if I had also spent a good deal of time hanging around with the president of some Reese Witherspoon fan club. I see the situation with McCain and white nationalism to be similar.

Anyway, thanks for responding to my offer.

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Mike Tuggle <mikectuggle@att.net> wrote:
Barrett,

We may as well try to debate whether Barrett Brown has a crush on Reese Witherspoon.  How am I to know what's REALLY going on in the mind of another person?

CJ has already ruled that RSM's denial of being a white supremacist means nothing (Charles' psychic abilities being clearly greater than mine), so what's the point?  These days, an accusation of racism is a prima facie case of racism -- it's like being accused of hiding witches' teats in Salem -- the more you deny it, the guiltier you are.

RSM has stated he does not believe blacks are less intelligent than whites, convinced that a just God would not burden an entire race with such a handicap.  That puts McCain in a different category than, say, Steve Sailer, who points to analysis of SAT scores, IQ statistics, and end-of-grade scores as evidence there is a gap between the average IQ of whites and blacks.

And even if a person was convinced by Sailer's argument, that still would not make that person a "white supremacist," since those same studies show northern Asians to have an average IQ higher than that of whites.

Sorry.  As much as I'd like to promote my sputtering writing career and blog, such a debate is impossible when the issue has already been concluded by such nebulous, subjective terms.

Mike