IBM says- THINK

Linkage- Statistics In the ‘Christmas double issue’ –The Economist Dec 20th-Jan2 2015 in the article on ‘Statisticians in WW2’ it says; ‘Karl Pearson is regarded as the father of modern statistics. In 1911 he founded the world’s first statistical department at University College London… A freethinking, proto feminist and believer in the ‘war with inferior races’ as essential to improving what eugenicists called ‘the human stock’ he put the study of variation within populations, and correlations between characteristics on a firm intellectual footing’ p91 20th Dec 2014 The Economist. What we have presented to us as we follow it through in Edwin Black’s book ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ is the unexplained participation of IBM New York under the leadership of Thomas Watson in the extermination of Jews in Germany co-operating with and finding business solutions for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich government. Readers may like to think of this as a mistake on the part of IBM –something which maybe IBM didn’t fully understand or see as being contrary to the foundation principals of USA- Human Rights. But we have seen how in spite of what the American Constitution says and the Declaration of 1776 there is in fact a deeper stronger Aristocratic heritage coming from the Calvinist foundation of New York and New England- Dutch and English which sees the Aryan –Anglo Saxon races as being superior and all others; Blacks, Jews, Italians Irish; as being of inferior stock and Theodore Roosevelt speaking of their elimination! Rather than being ‘Just a Business investment mistake with German managers doing things not under the control of New York’ The actual invention and use of the IBM punch card- Hollerith computer essentially works to allow the statistical science of the categorization of human beings –so that decisions can be made by governments as to which sections of the population to favor, which to persecute, and which to eliminate. IBM developed the machine central to the Holocaust process. Harvard, Yale and Columbia gave the ideology to the elite on these vital race questions and statistics according to what we have just read- was a science for studying these population variations. We need to be linking the story as we study it rather than coming up with excuses as to why we should be making exceptions… USA and Great Britain more naturally wanted to in the 1930s side with Adolf Hitler especially as Germany fully intended to push East and eliminate USSR-Communism. My own Pentecostal forebears in the 1930s supported Hitler because he was against ‘Godless Communism’ Thus the most important date for USA in WW2 was 7th Dec 1941 because on that historic day Russian forces were finally pushing Germany back to the west from Moscow and therefore the disappointment for the military and the elite of the West was that Communism had not be dealt with… And they believed with the nuclear weapon that should then happen.- But this is just one way of looking at a very complex and diverse history- as IBM tell us-THINK!