Answering Durocher

A response.

The dishonest Durocher writes

I received some interesting comments as well as some pushback for my previous article summarizing a scientific study showing correlations between brain shape/size and regional European ancestry. This is understandable given the sensitivity of the topic. Individual and ethnic amour-propre is a powerful motivator in the face of emotionally hurtful facts and hypotheses. However, as I like to say, the science is coming, ready or not, whether people like it or not, whether these fit with the current ideological fashions or not. I am confident that the progress of science and free discussion on the Internet will lead to an increase in human consciousness and apprehension of the truth.

Yes, indeed, the science is coming, ready or not, and I’m sure that the sweatily obsessed “movement” of which you are a part would be interested in knowing the truth.  Or perhaps not. Genetic archaeology is not going to be kind to Der Movement and its theories, I believe.

Two points. First, the above comment of Durocher comes from a post (at the anti-White Jew Unz blog of course) primarily discussing a paper analyzing cortical geometry among the major racial groups - a more generalized look at the subject of Durocher's previous foray into the subject. Of course, this more generalized paper was also discussed at my original blog post from which Durocher was alerted to the intra-European study.  But, also of course, after my criticisms of him over the last few days, Le Grand Frog this time omits reference to my original post. Injured individual amour-propre perhaps?

Second, Durocher is being typically dishonest in his characterization of his critics. I've read the comments at the Unz blog, and I am or course aware of what I have written here.  None of these people are attacking the actual science. No one - unless I missed a comment among the 100+ there - critiqued the actual original paper and its findings. The conclusions about intra-European brain differences were not substantially challenged. No one, you pathetic weasel, is avoiding truth or dismissing objective scientific facts. Instead people are criticizing Durocher's over-interpretation, hand-waving "spin" to dismiss contrary facts (avoiding truth?), and his overall hyper-Nordicist "take"on the science. That Durocher already has a well-established reputation for being a Nordicist - and also dishonestly denies it in Kempian fashion - adds to the perception of an underlying racio-political agenda, rather than a dispassionate discussion of data. People are not objecting to facts, but to Durocher's tendentious reading of those facts.

By the way, Durocher you won’t find any avoidance of racial and ethnic facts at EGI Notes because as you wrote:

I want to thank Ted Sallis for bringing attention to a fascinating study…

This blog has always been about getting to the facts about race and ethnicity, regardless of what it says about one group or another.  Your post – complete with groundless speculation and a juvenile picture of an anti-WN Austrian playing a fictional barbarian in a Hollywood move – is not “science” or “truth.” If your snide comments are directed at me, then you expose yourself as a fool, having learned about the study in question from my own work.

If the snide comments were instead about those criticizing you at the Jew Unz blog, then the fact that others criticize aspects of your post is not necessarily an indication of “individual and ethnic amour-propre” but instead - who knows? – maybe they look at other information and have their own hypotheses and interpretations that differ from your own. Or are the defensive comments by you quoted above a reflection of your own “individual and ethnic amour-propre?” Are you unable to take criticism without resorting to ad hominem?  

I know that the French have a reputation for being obnoxiously arrogant – related to brain structure, perhaps? – but, maybe, just maybe, your own interpretations and hypotheses are not correct, not reflections of science and reality, and, maybe, just maybe, the opinions of others are not merely “individual and ethnic amour-propre” attempting to avoid your hard truths. Maybe the comments made by others have some degree of validity on their own merits.