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friendlyskies wrote:Does anyone think it's a little weird that the top ten are all Islamic (or Middle Eastern) intellectuals? (I didn't look all of them up, though.) Or that the two top White names are Noam Chomsky and Al Gore? Nothing against Al and Noam, but are they really our best and brightest? And how is General Patraeus a public intellectual, he's never published! It looks like the first Latino doesn't clock in till #20, the first Asian at #33, and I don't even see any obviously African names other than De Waal, ahem. That just seems like a statistically unlikely spread.
And good point about Hawking. I see EO Wilson, Richard Dawkins, and Jared Diamond made it on there, all of them biologists who have unusual insights into humanity's place in the natural order of things. Which is cool, I love all three of them, but are their musings so important that all three were included at the expense of the other sciences?
Nasir wrote:I wrote a long reply but deleted it by accident to summarize
Friedman and Hitchens are pathetic they think they are way smarter than they are
and those Islamic guys dont have any real power so they shouldnt have those top spots.
Zero wrote:Nasir wrote:I wrote a long reply but deleted it by accident to summarize
Friedman and Hitchens are pathetic they think they are way smarter than they are
and those Islamic guys dont have any real power so they shouldnt have those top spots.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms. ... ry_id=4349
What the shit? This was a popularity contest open to the public? There are a few names on there that deserve to be on there, a bunch of names that were prominent in the past few decades but are less relevant now, and a bunch of 'lets throw _____ a bone', but for some reason, it was publicized to the people who promoted whackjobs like Imam Penta (Yusuf Al-Qaradawi) to the top of the list. At least Muhammad Yunus (#2) deserves to be on there.
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