Why XYY?

Some of you may remember Al Gore and his comments about "Extra-Y-Chromosome Conservatives" during the 2000 Campaign, or Maureen Dowd's inept attempt to repeat his phrase. He was referring to a condition where a boy is born with an extra Y chromosome, causing increased stature and frequent learning disabilities.

He wasn't accusing conservatives of having a learning disability, but of being testosterone-fueled criminals. He was talking about a British study from the mid-1960's that found that men with the extra Y chromosome were slightly overrepresented in mental hospitals, and suggested that they were a bunch of violent crooks. A team of Scots later discovered that the Brits were totally wrong, but the damage had been done. The XYY mutation was forever associated with aggression and criminality.

Algore was trying to paint conservatives as a bunch of violent lunatics because we believe insane things like "the military is a necessary institution," or that "people who are executed generally do not kill again."

Pacifists seem to believe that all of the peoples of the world really just want to live-and-let-live. The 20th Century examples of the Nazis and Communism did not shake the confidence of the pacifists that there philosophy is still correct, despite a few mishaps, and they are determined to keep trying it with the Islamofascists.

When we are attacked by others, the pacifists generally make the same excuse: We were asking for it. Mike Tyson used this excuse when he was on trial for rape: "She was wearing a short skirt, so she was asking for it." The pacifist international-version of the Mike Tyson Rape Excuse goes like this: "They are poor, non-white, and they are angry that we do not share our wealth with them, so we were asking for it." They generally keep quiet when people point out that the United States is the main source of income for most Islamic nations, or that Osama was a billionaire and Ayman al-Zawahiri was a rich doctor.

Pacifism and isolationism fail every time they are tried, but the pacifists never seem to change their minds. So thanks, Algore. I'd rather be learning-disabled than incapable of learning from history.