From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: Hate Speech Okay, says the Supreme Court
Summary: Ed Nilges is right about the decline among American students.
Keywords: DELENDUS EST FEMINISMUS
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:41:51 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.

In article <1992Jul27.140918.17178@Princeton.EDU> 
egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:

>. . . I've taught at the university level and witnessed, in the
>period 1970-, a wide decline in writing and thinking ability.  You
>don't have to believe me; take a look at SATs.  The Urban Legend is that
>students from poor backgrounds are getting stupider, but the decline is
>across the board.  [Ed Nilges]

Mr. Nilges is correct, in my estimation.  I have encountered college
graduates of whom it is hard to believe, from their writing and from
their state of general knowledge, that they graduated from high school.

Naturally, I've got a scapegoat to blame for this "wide decline in
writing and thinking ability," and my scapegoat is probably not one
that Mr. Nilges would think of blaming.  

See, there was a time when the make-up of elite secondary schools,
such as the Bronx High School of Science, was over 90% Jewish.  Daniel
Patrick Moynihan wrote, in an article in _Commentary_ magazine in 
the early '70's, that if admissions were to be made according to ethnic
quotas, seven out of eight Jewish Harvard students would have to leave, 
because Harvard at that time was 24% Jewish while Jews made up only 3% 
of the population.

Why were the Jews so successful academically?  I believe it was because
their parents, especially their mothers who were full-time mothers with
no outside employment, devoted their lives to preparing their children
to "succeed."  That's what the mothers in today's Asian immigrant
families do for their children.  Meanwhile, the daughters of the
previous generation's Jewish mothers have gone into outside employment
with a vengeance, and although today's Jewish mothers greatly love and 
cherish their own children and make "quality time" for those children
when it does not interfere too much with their own careers, it seems
that *by comparison with what their mothers did for them*, today's
mothers are neglecting their children.  That's why Asians have displaced
Jews at places like the Bronx High School of Science and Harvard.

It's not just Asian-American immigrants, either.  American cars are
as good as they are because they are made by full-time auto workers
whose career is making automobiles.  Imagine how shoddy they would be
if they were mass-produced during evenings and week-ends by part-timers
whose real careers were something else.  Japanese cars are even better,
even though they, too, are made by full-time auto workers whose 
career is making automobiles.  The difference is that the Japanese
workers were raised by full-time mothers whose career was raising
children, whereas all too many American workers were raised during
evenings and week-ends by part-time mothers whose real careers were
something else.

So, yes, there has been a decline in American students' ability, 
just as Mr. Nilges writes.  And it will come as no surprise to readers
of this newsgroup that I lay the blame for this decline squarely at
the feet of feminism, that pernicious movement that has misled millions
of American women into neglecting their children.

Good article, Mr. Nilges!

					-- Matt Rosenblatt
                                        (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)

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