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This misses the point a bit. Intellectuals are not a commodity. How do you weigh one Fermi or Einstein against 3 other scientists?
by throwawayjava 8y ago
This misses the point a bit. Intellectuals are not a commodity. How do you weigh one Fermi or Einstein against 3 other scientists?
- oblio 8y agoYou're assuming that the native Germans were somehow second rate scientists. Re-check my list :) Germany not only destroyed its Jewish population willingly, therefore losing some of Germany's best minds but also destroyed its own research facilities, economy and even a good chunk of its native German scientists by shipping them off to war or having them bombed back at home. Folly of the greatest magnitude, any way you look at it.
- throwawayjava 8y agoI don't see where I made that assumption. Kick out a few key faculty members and the rest of the good ones will follow, Jew or not, because they are good and have the choice to leave. You don't need all your faculty to be Jewish in order to lose all your good ones by kicking out a single Jewish faculty member. If you lose 4/16 of your academics but all 4 of those were the Giants, then you haven't decimated your department, but you have lost what made it good in the first place. Even before the war reached the borders, German mathematics was decimated. Sometimes by numbers, but always by the numbers that mattered. Because anyone good knew someone effected, and everyone good had the option to leave.