Mutual exclusivity is a concept where physics, the
humanities and natural philosophy overlap. Simply put, mutual exclusivity means
that if combination A exits, combination B is excluded. Of course, the same also
applies if you have it the other way around.
In that vein, we have in physics a rule that says two
electrons in the same atom cannot have the same set of quantum numbers. That's
because the two sets would be mutually exclusive. Also, in the humanities, we
often use the analogy: A woman cannot be pregnant and not pregnant at the same
time. That's because the two conditions are mutually exclusive.
When it comes to natural philosophy, however, something must
be said ahead of discussing the role it plays in the concept of mutual
exclusivity. It is that before the rules of scientific inquiry were “cast in
stone,” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a scientific “truth” was
established not by experiment but by the deductive speculation of anyone considered
to have attained the status of public philosopher. When he said that all
elements were made of dust, air and fire, the declaration became scientific
truth and so remained for centuries.
Well, believe it or not, that in this modern age where the scientific
method occupies a paramount position in our daily lives, there are people who
use the ancient method of deductive speculation to reach conclusions no more
valid today than the declarations of ancient philosophers – and then try to
impose them on the rest of us despite the fact that modern rational thought
excludes them entirely and effectively.
The most glaring and most asinine of these situations is a
declaration of the Jewish Establishment to the effect that anyone who considers
himself a Jew is a descendant of the Hebrew tribes that lived in Palestine
thousands of years ago, therefore has the right to chase away at gunpoint the
people who have lived continuously on that patch of land, to take their properties
and make himself or herself at home.
The logic they employ to justify that absurdity is that as
long as someone has a drop of Jewish blood in them, it means that he or she can
be classified as a descendent of the ancient Hebrew tribes who lived in Palestine . They have a
connection to the land, says the Jewish Establishment, thus have more rights
than the people who never left the land but lived on it since the beginning of
time.
As absurd and asinine as this may sound, there were people –
such as the mentally retarded in the American Congress – who bought that
argument, and dedicated the entire panoply of the Republic's resources to
defend it. They say it is not self-evident that their stance is absurd and
asinine on its face, and wish to see a convincing counter argument that would
push back against the argument of the Jewish Establishment.
As it happens, the experienced people who know the mentality
of those in the Congress – have posited that you'll never find a counter
argument that will successfully push back against the argument of the Jews
because in the eyes of the retarded in Congress, a word uttered by a Jew is
worth a million uttered by a non-Jew. Thus, you can talk to the boneheads for a
million years, and they'll never understand a word you say.
Fair enough. But what if we found a Jew who says
(inadvertently of course) what we want him to say? Will they listen and be
convinced? Well, it's worth a try. And we have none other than Elliott Abrams
to make the point in our behalf. He is dean of the most fanatic non-Hebraic
Jews you'll find on the planet today; and he wrote: “America 's 'Disappearing White
Majority' Is Not Disappearing,” an article that was published on January 15,
2016 in National Review Online.
He begins the article with this: “Intermarriage and
assimilation blur racial and ethnic lines...” He uses the study conducted by
the sociologist Richard Alba to complain that “the Census Bureau counts all
children of mixed parentage as minority.” But he subscribes to the argument
which says: “If we classify anyone with some white ancestry as white, the data
show that whites would make up three-quarters of the population.”