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Entry: Postmodern, Not Hypermodern: Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/postmodern_not_hypermodern_russell_kirk#14209 Post contents: Let NANR present his credentials on "race": 1. He is to state his full and real name. 2. He is to state his degree in organic chemistry, the year he obtained it, and the institution that granted it. 3. He is to state his degree in cell biology, the year he obtained it, and the institution that granted it. 4. He is to state his degree in genetics -- Mendelian and molecular -- the year he obtained it, and the institution that granted it. 5. He is to cite, correctly, his published research in these fields and the peer review. Were NANR to so credential himself, I might take seriously what he says about race. But of course he can't, and thus must be ranked with with snake oil salesmen and the corn doctor at the county fair, and his natural "science" ranked with spoon benders and alien space ship kidnappings. Let's go a step further. Germans are good at piano making. Pray tell us, NANR, where is the piano making DNA strain or gene in Germans? Let's all have a good horse laugh. Then, once again, lets preach the truth: <b>Racialism and Burkean/Tory Conservatism have NOTHING in common</b>, the latter knowing that people are the product of history, habit, custom, class, tradition, ceremony, and religion -- and NOT the product of a category so risible as "race". Skin color is as about as important as eye color. What one's folkways are are everything. Roger Thackery is the real heretic. Sorry to have to go over all this again. I'd like to think that our latest tedious fraud is new to this site, but more likely he's the same old Stormfronter who, by changing his name, gives the illusion that they are many. A more remote possibility is an Neocon or Cultural Marxist <i>agent provocateur</i>. Now lets get back to honoring a real conservative, Kirk. Sent at: 2008 07 06