ZGram - 1/16/2002 - "Glayde Whitney: A Tribute"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January 16, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Here is an important press release from the Institute for Historical Review:

Glayde Whitney: A Tribute
By Mark Weber
weber@ihr.org

Director, Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org

January 14, 2002

Glayde Whitney, a nationally renowned psychologist and a friend of the
Institute for Historical Review, is dead. He was 62. He died on January 9
at a hospital in his home town of Tallahassee, Florida, of cardiac arrest
due to complications of emphysema and bronchitis. He is survived by two
sons.

 Along with many others, we were startled to learn of his untimely death.
Just a few days earlier, he and I had exchanged e-mail messages. Our only
face-to-face meeting was in May 2000, when he joined us as a speaker at the
13th IHR Conference in Irvine, California. Although I did not know him
well, I very much appreciated his cordial support for the IHR and our work.
I liked his intelligence and quick humor, and was impressed with his
obvious regard for truth and his sense of responsibility for the future of
humanity.

 Whitney earned his doctorate in psychology at the University of Minnesota,
and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at
the University of Colorado. He served on active duty with the U.S. Air
Force. After a stint teaching at New Mexico State University, in 1970 he
joined the faculty of Florida state University, where he taught for 31
years. At the time of his death, he was a full professor of psychology at
FSU and a member of the school's graduate program in neuroscience.

 Even colleagues who did not agree with his views on history or politics
acknowledged that he was an able scholar at the forefront of his field.
Whitney was a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association, for
example, and several years ago the National Institutes of Health awarded
him a prestigious research grant that is bestowed on scientists who have
made outstanding contributions to their field.

 In 1999 Whitney came into national notoriety for contributing a foreword
to My Awakening, a detailed work -- part autobiography, part manifesto --
by David Duke, the well known defender of the rights and interests of
European-Americans. In his foreword, Whitney wrote:

 "Individuals of Jewish ancestry are vastly overrepresented in the ranks of
highly successful scientists. They are among my best students and closest
friends. Organized Jewry, on the other hand, dogmatically attempts to keep
the general population from awareness of the findings of modern science....
The Anti-Defamation League may have been founded to counter bigotry; sadly
it has transformed into one of the most bigoted of organizations. Wielding
the two mega-smears of 'racist' and 'anti-Semitic,' it attacks whomsoever
it dislikes."

 Whitney predictably came under hateful attack for his bold expression of
politically incorrect views. In the Florida state Senate, for example, the
black, Hispanic and Jewish members co-sponsored a resolution condemning him
for his "racist, intolerant and divisive teachings." (It failed to receive
enough support for passage, however.) With grace and good humor, Whitney
weathered the spiteful criticisms and malign efforts to dismiss him.

 In his lecture to the 13th IHR Conference, entitled "How Psychology Lost
Darwin," Whitney said the social sciences in the United States during most
of the twentieth century have consisted largely of "ethnically motivated
disinformation." He spoke of "the subversion of American anthropology," and
its "shift from legitimate science to ideological pap under the direction
of the Jewish immigrant Franz Boas." In spite of the important scientific
discoveries and landmark advances that have been made in psychology, he
said, "members of the Jewish intelligentsia are, if anything, becoming more
strident in attempting to subvert Darwinian psychology."

 Whitney concluded his lecture on a somber note:

 "Even though common knowledge among academics, the suppression of
knowledge about Jewish involvement in issues linking genetics, race,
psychology is being actively pursued. In many countries "politically
incorrect" discussion of these topics can get you fired, while world-wide
the B'nai B'rith and allied pressure groups are pushing to criminalize any
mention of race differences."

 During the question and answer period, the quick-witted Whitney made a
number of striking points. Whereas Darwinian evolution was widely accepted
at the beginning of the 20th century, he said, this is no longer true.
Egalitarianism, "multi-culturalism," and modern liberalism are now as
entrenched in psychology as they are in the other social sciences, and
Darwinism is now attacked as racist and "Nazi." This drastic, ideologically
driven transformation has taken place in spite of empirical evidence to the
contrary. Indeed, added Whitney, "psychological traits are every bit as
inheritable as physical traits." In the worldwide struggle in psychology,
he concluded bleakly, "international socialists are winning."

 Contrary to the image that scholars like to cultivate of themselves as
intellectually courageous, the great majority of men and women in American
academic life are, in truth, timidly conformist. While many academics
privately disdain key tenets of the prevailing dogma of "political
correctness," very few dare to publicly express their true views, out of
fear of being stigmatized by colleagues or by the media.

 During this dark age of widespread intellectual conformity, Glayde Whitney
stood out as one of a handful of American scholars who defied entrenched
taboos and prejudices. He will be remembered as a man of intellectual
courage and forthrightness. His untimely death is a sober reminder of our
own mortality, and that life is too short for timidity. His life, and his
death, remind us -- in the words of the ancient saga -- of the immortality
of the brave man's deeds.


 Institute for Historical Review (http://www.ihr.org/) PO Box 2739
 Newport Beach, CA 92659
 fax (949) 631-0981

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