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Title: The Crucifixion of Jason Richwine
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URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-crucifixion-of-jason-richwine
Published: May 9, 2013
Author: Michelle Malkin
Post Date: 2013-05-10 04:01:21 by Big Meanie
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[See also Burn The Witch!” Heritage Foundation Scuttles Away From Jason Richwine—And The Cold Hard Facts, By John Derbyshire] How low will supporters of the Gang of Eight immigration bill go to get their way? This low: They've shamelessly branded an accomplished Ivy League-trained quantitative analyst a "racist" and will stop at nothing to destroy his career as they pave their legislative path to another massive illegal alien benefits bonanza. Jason Richwine works for the conservative Heritage Foundation. He's a Harvard University Ph.D. who co-authored a study that pegs the cost of the Ted Kennedy Memorial Open Borders Act 2.0 legislation at $6.3 trillion. Lead author Robert Rector is a senior research fellow at Heritage, a former United States Office of Personnel Management analyst and the intellectual godfather of welfare reform. He holds a master's degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University. Both Democrats and Republicans leaped to discredit the 102-page report without bothering to read it. The Washington Post falsely claimed the study did not take into account increased revenues from amnestied illegal alien workers. It did. Haley Barbour immediately proclaimed that the Heritage assessment of government costs incurred by amnestied illegal aliens was "not serious." They want to talk gravitas? Let's talk gravitas. Blowhard Barbour is a career politician and paid lobbyist for the government of Mexico who has carried water for open borders since the Bush years. Richwine received his doctorate in public policy in 2009 from Harvard University's prestigious Kennedy School of Government. He holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and political science from American University. Before joining Heritage in 2010, he worked at the American Enterprise Institute on a dissertation fellowship. Richwine's 166-page dissertation, "IQ and Immigration Policy," is now being used to smear him—and, by extension, all of Heritage's scholarship—as "racist." While the punditocracy and political establishment sanctimoniously call for "honest discussions" on race, they rush to crush bona fide, dispassionate academic inquiries into the controversial subjects of intelligence, racial and ethnic differences, and domestic policy. Richwine's entire thesis is now online here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/140239668/IQ-and-Immigration-Policy-Jason-Richwine. Part One reviews the science of IQ. Part Two delves into empirical research comparing IQs of the native-born American population with that of immigrant groups, with the Hispanic population broken out. Richwine explores the causes of an immigrant IQ deficit that appears to persist among Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. through several generations. The thesis analyzes social policy consequences of these findings and uses a model of the labor market "to show how immigrant IQ affects the economic surplus accruing to natives and the wage impact on low-skill natives." The smug dismissal of Richwine's credentials and scholarship is to be expected by liberal hacks and clown operatives. But a reckless and cowardly pileup of knee-jerk dilettantes on the right—including former McCain campaign co-chair Ana Navarro and conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin—have joined the character assassins of the Soros-sphere, MSNBC and Mother Jones in deeming Richwine a "racist." The drooling attack dogs of the far-left blog Daily Kos have now launched a pressure campaign against the JFK School demanding to know "why the school awarded Richwine a Ph.D. and what they plan to do in the future to prevent it from happening again." No researcher or academic institution is safe if this smear campaign succeeds. Richwine's dissertation committee at Harvard included George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy. The Cuban-born scholar received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. He is an award-winning labor economist, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the author of countless books, including a widely used labor economics textbook now in its sixth edition. Richard J. Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at JFK, also signed off on Richwine's dissertation. Zeckhauser earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He belongs to the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences). The final member of Richwine's "racist" thesis committee is Christopher Jencks, the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard's JFK School. He is a renowned left-wing academic who has taught at Harvard, Northwestern, the University of Chicago and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He edited the liberal New Republic magazine in the 1960s and has written several scholarly books tackling poverty, economic inequality, affirmative action, welfare reform and, yes, racial differences ("The Black-White Test Score Gap"). The willingness of Republican Gang of 8'ers to allow a young conservative researcher and married father of two to be strung up by the p.c. lynch mob for the crime of unflinching social science research is chilling, sickening and suicidal. These are serious people doing serious work. The crucifiers of Jason Richwine pretend to defend sound science. But if it is now inherently racist to study racial and ethnic differences among demographic groups, then it's time to shut down every social sciences department in the country. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: HELP! We’re trying to avoid blocking VDARE.com, which we’ve found we have to do to get attention for our fundraising appeals, during the 2013 Amnesty/ Immigration Surge War. My post in this space a couple of days ago produced a gratifying burst of support—many thanks to those of you who helped—but now it’s completely stalled. I urge you to help keep VDARE.com open. There are many ways to do—all tax-deductible. Please click here—and help us save America. ----------- Poster Comment: Links at source
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#1. To: Big Meanie (#0)
Referring to Richwine as being "crucified" because his highly tendentious dissertation has come to light - and it closely relates to his recent participation in the Heritage report - is not merely disproportionate but it analogizes Richwine to someone very much unlike him.
You offered nothing to back up your opinion. Here's a challenge to you from Steve Sailor: HERE is Richwine's Harvard Ph.D. dissertation, "IQ and Immigration Policy." HERE is a short bio of the three Harvard scholars that signed off on Richwine's dissertation. One of them, Christopher Jencks, is "perhaps the leading left-of-center social scientist of his era." Here's a good summation of the situation from Steve Sailor: "In any case, what the (Washington) Post is doing is the rhetorical fallacy called 'Poisoning the Well'. They're saying that no one should listen to Richwine about the cost of legalizing millions of minimum wage, low IQ illegals because his dissertation is evil." "What we can say is that people ought to listen to Richwine, because his dissertation shows he's an expert"....Link
Rachel Maddow - Racist revealed at Republican policy group "Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results."; Margaret Atwood, "Surfacing"
#2. To: Shoonra, ferret (#1)
"I have had a look at what Jason Richwine has said, and his comments are in line with the current data. So here is the challenge: a bottle of fine French wine sent to the first person who can show that Hispanic/Latino American intelligence and scholastic ability is on the same level as European American intelligence and scholastic ability. Data please."
"It's all part of the fantasy that we're repeating the experience of New York in 1908. In the early 20th century we had Irish, Jewish, Italian,Scandinavian, and Asian immigrants. Most of their descendants are net taxpayers, and the grandsons of the Jewish and Asian immigrants are doctors and engineers. We are not going to get a large number of doctors and engineers out of the children of Mexican immigrants, most of whom don't graduate high school. We are going to get barrios, colonias, and participants in the Food Stamp Program."
#3. To: Big Meanie (#2)
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