Monty Python’s John Cleese – “I notice that some people run faster than others. And others swim better than others… so we’re not perhaps equal in every single way”
In an interview with the UK’s RebelWisdom.com, June 12, Monty Python’s John Cleese doubled-down on previous statements in favor of race realism.
Echoing subspecieism and the views of this website, Cleese stated clearly and forthrightly, 19 minute mark:
“The race relations people… people get excited and they don’t really listen to what I say. But I make a huge difference between culture and race. I believe that races are completely equal in the sense that they have all the rights that any other race has. I mean, I notice that some people run faster than others. And others swim better than others. And that’s in itself interesting. We’re not perhaps equal in every single way. Some people are more talented here, and less talented there.”
Background from the Harvard Gazette,
With his “theory of multiple intelligences,” Gardner challenged the notion of a singular entity of mind, mostly genetic, and instead put forward the idea that all of us possess different types of intelligences, including linguistic, spatial, and musical.
Gardner, a 1981 MacArthur “genius” fellow, would branch out to write books and formulate ideas in a range of other fields, including ethics. He is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an adjunct professor of psychology and senior director of Project Zero.
As an interesting aside Gardner predicted AI in that 2018 interview, continuing,
all bets are off because this is the first time in history that we’re going to be able to affect the brain directly, to affect genetics directly, and of course, create artificial intelligences, which we either interact with, internalize, or merge with our brains. At present there are many things we can’t imagine because we’re limited by our evolved brains. But with technology, we — or the technology! — might create all sorts of new intelligences. Until 15 years ago, that would have been science fiction, but it’s not science fiction anymore.
Cleese a Howard “Gardner-ian” on human variation
On Race and IQ:
“I’m one of those people who’ve read Howard Gardner. And I know there’s lots of different types of intelligence. You can be very high on one intelligence and very low on another. Like have you ever seen a philosopher dance well?”
John Cleese, a self-described liberal, defended by the libertarian right
An outpouring of support is coming Cleese’s way from some unlikely corners of the internet.
As David Marcus at the mainstream conservative news site The Federalist notes, June 11:
John Cleese, of “Monty Python” and “Fawlty Towers” fame, has been stirring up a bit of controversy. Last month, he went on record saying that he no longer views London as an English city as a result of immigration and cultural change in the English capital. Cleese, who left England last year to take up permanent residence in the Caribbean, is not backing down from the comment. In fact, he’s lighting up Twitter, to the dismay of the woke.
Alt-Right celebrity PJW defends Cleese
Also chiming in, British right-libertarian YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson defends Cleese:
JOHN CLEESE DID AN OOPSIE https://t.co/LNKhpXH6vQ via @YouTube
— Luanne M. Ashe (@LuanneAshe) June 7, 2019
Others are taking him to task. See Political Bulls
Update from HelloMagazine… Cleese is no longer happy with London…
John Cleese is looking to move to the West Country
Speaking at Clifton College, as reported by the Daily Mail, the incredibly expensive private school in Bristol that he attended when he was younger, he revealed: “Unquestionably, my home is the West Country. My wife and I are thinking very seriously of buying in Bath.”
The 85-year-old continued: “When I look back at my time in Weston-super-Mare… There were a lot of very nice people having peaceful, friendly lives and being nice to each other and behaving really pretty well. And how little of that there is around these days.”
Buy me a coffee. Because mainstream anthropology needs a wake-up call.
