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MayBee70 History does not find that Enoch Powell was racist. In reality Powell was a brilliant academic it seems.
Written about Rosalind Franklin:
“I suspect that in the beginning Maurice hoped that Rosy would calm down. Yet mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. By choice she did not emphasize her feminine qualities. Though her features were strong, she was not unattractive and might have been quite stunning had she taken even a mild interest in clothes. This she did not. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men.”
“During an interview, I was asked about homosexuality and I related a story about a woman who felt her life had been ruined because her son was a homosexual and she would never have grandchildren. I simply said that women in that situation should have a choice over whether or not to abort. I didn’t say that fetuses found to have a gay gene should be aborted.”
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”
“Some anti-Semitism is justified. Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous.”
“I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.”
I guess all the above are acceptable because they were all said or written by James Watson, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on the molecular structure of DNA. He is (or was) a brilliant academic. 
