The very specific gag orders of media codes are unopposed; thus lead down a slippery slope to expand and generalize.
- *generalize from crime reports to off limits IQ tests and all embarrassing minority mishaps.
- *expand from journalist’s gag orders to silencing the entire populations, academic scientists, including Nobel Prize winners [note]
- William Shockley, inventor of transistor, was racist:
Physics Nobel laureate William Shockley, inventor of the transistor and (probably) the founder of Silicon Valley [10] pointed “out that to blame all the failures of black people on racism was a misdiagnosis of the problem” [12]. Shockley was reviled for suggesting various well meant “racist” research projects to the National Academy of Science [12]. - James Watson’s Inquisition #2:
James D. Watson, perhaps the most distinguished living American scientist, has now been kicked to the curb by the Cold Spring Harbor genetics laboratory he rescued and rebuilt over the last 40 years for making politically (but not scientifically) incorrect statements about African IQs. - James Watson Racist:
Nobel James Watson Top 20 most influential Americans of all times, top 100 Person of all times, was socially and scientifically destroyed for a well meaning comment about race differences[/note]
Reblogged, with permission from Sincerity.Net: Ever expanding media codes lead to hate speech laws - *hate speech laws and Facebook and twitter evictions are only a logical consequence.
- *“Truth is no defense”[note]Truth no defense in racism trials: The [Swedish] Court notes that the question of whether or not Michael Hess’s pronouncement is true, has no bearing on the case [/note] is a feature. In the original media code, truth is no defense, black crime must not be attributed to Blacks