Petr Bakalář

Petr Bakalář (born January 27, 1970 in Prague ) is a Czech publicist and psychologist who had published some controversial works in the field of racial theory and eugenics , which are considered obsolete .

Attitudes and criticism

Bakalář, who studied psychology , drew attention to himself since 1999 at the latest with his publications on various sub-areas of racial theory and eugenics. His theories and statements, which are usually backed up by many sources, studies and specialist literature, have received considerable media coverage. They are not only criticized and attacked, but also received positively precisely because of their apparent scientific nature : “The strength of Petr Bakalář (in contrast to neo-Nazi amateurs) lies in the fact that he does not trumpet his views and attitudes in football stadiums and also not openly racist media, but artfully presented them in the form of 'scientific' findings and 'unbiased' research. "

Published in 2003 his book Bakalář taboo v sociálních vědách (Tabu in the social sciences), the work of about 300 pages with 400 tables, counts and other materials that allegedly prove that the intelligence of the race or ethnicity depends. The racial differences are due to the long-term selection , whereby the genofond was formed. These traits are hereditary and the environment only plays a marginal role. The multicultural society idealized in western civilizations is only a false left and environmentalist notion. The criticism of his book, which also deals extensively with Judaism as an "evolutionary group strategy" and takes the biological and genetically caused racial differences (including the skull measurements) as given, also included the accusation that he selects the sources and leaves facts and publications aside that contradict him.

His other work, Psychologie Romů (The Psychology of the Roma, 2004), is no less controversial. Bakalář generalizes and postulates that the Roma belong to the so-called “ Europid race”, but their evolutionary history led to a selection of genes that are characteristic of the so-called “ Negroid race ”, which then equates to a lower intelligence (and subsequently higher crime). Especially in view of the excited discussions caused by the attacks on the Roma population in the Czech Republic, his statements that the “lower intelligence” of the Roma population is “genetically determined” are dangerous to prejudice. In doing so, Bakalář disregards other evidence that might suggest the opposite.

Bakalář's publications are compared in the Czech media with the publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Czech, the Czech Jewish community describes them as “an attack on human rights and the tolerance of minorities”, and his scientific approach is described as repulsive and unnatural. Petr Bakalář replied to this criticism by pointing out that there are people who suffer from an “Auschwitz complex” and react to every mention of the terms eugenics, Roma or Jew with “such an associative chain Hitler - concentration camp - genocide”.

Publications (selection)

• Psychology v otázkách. Portál, Prague 1999, ISBN 80-7178-330-7 .
• Kniha otázek. Kniha, která zpříjemní čekání. Portál, Prague 2001, ISBN 80-7178-565-2 .
• Cvičebnice psychology. Votobia, Prague 2003, ISBN 80-7220-144-1 .
• Taboo v sociálních vědách. Votobia, Prague 2003, ISBN 80-7220-135-2 .
• Psychology Romů. Votobia, Prague 2004, ISBN 80-7220-180-8 .
• Psychologický průvodce Prahou. Votobia, Olomouc 2006, ISBN 80-7220-279-0 .
• with others: Dluhy české politiky. Lucie, Vimperk 2006, ISBN 80-903639-4-6 .
• Bůh jako psychický virus. Beta Books, Prague 2008, ISBN 978-80-87197-14-1 .
• Briefly sebepoznání. Triton, Prague 2009, ISBN 978-80-7387-345-5 .
• Tak pravil mimočlověk. Druhé město, Brno 2015, ISBN 978-80-7227-375-1 .
• Konverzační slovník podlidí. Milan Hodek, Hradec Králové 2018, ISBN 978-80-87688-71-7 .

Others

Bakalář is a strong chess player who achieved his highest Elo rating of 2355 in January 1994 and holds the title of FIDE Master . From 1990 to 1992 he played with the ŠK Slavoj Vyšehrad in the Česko-Slovenská celostátní liga, the highest Czechoslovak chess division, from 1994 to 1996 with the SK ZČE Plzeň in the Extraliga , the highest Czech chess division.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tomáš Kamín, Rasismus na pokračování (Racism in Episodes), in: Lidská práva (Journal of the Český helsinský výbor ) 2/2004, online at: www.helcom.cz ( Memento of July 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Czech, accessed on August 11, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tabu: strach z degenerace Petra Bakaláře (Taboo: Fear of Degeneration by Petr Bakalář), online at: www.holocaust.cz , Czech, accessed on August 11, 2016
3. ↑ David Halatka, Nová kniha rasistická: Psychology Romů? (New racist book: Psychology of the Roma?), Online at: www.blisty.cz ( Memento from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), in Czech, accessed on August 17, 2010
4. ^ Roma in the Czech Republic. Czech racism and ethnocentrism? (a 2003 report) Czech Racism and Ethnocentrism? ( Memento of September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 11, 2016
5. ^ Petr Bakalar: The IQ of Gypsies in Central Europe. In: Mankind Quarterly. Volume 44, No. 3/4, 2004, ISSN  0025-2344 , pp. 291-300, doi : 10.46469 / mq.2004.44.3.3 .
6. ↑ Roma discrimination: the Czech Republic is subject to Strasbourg. Roma children had been sent to special schools - families struggle for compensation, 2007, online at: www.tschechien-online.org ( memento of November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 11, 2016
7. ↑ Books in the dock, online at: www.radio.cz , English, accessed on August 17, 2010
8. ↑ Petr Bakalář chápe vědu podobně jako Mengele (Petr Bakalář understands science in a similar way to Mengele), online at: www.blisty.cz ( Memento of July 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Czech, accessed on August 17, 2010
9. ↑ Petr Bakalář in a radio talk on February 22, 2003, in: Vydání knihy Tabu v sociálních vědách, online at: www.rozhlas.cz , in Czech, accessed on August 17, 2010
10. ↑ Petr Bakalář's Elo development, online at: olimpbase.org / ...
11. ↑ Petr Bakalář's results in the Česko-Slovenská celostátní liga, online at: olimpbase.org / ...
12. ↑ Petr Bakalář's results in the Czech Extraliga, online at: olimpbase.org / ...

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Petr Bakalář in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Petr Bakalář at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• www.radio.cz: Books in the dock - comparison of the publications of Tabu v sociálních vědách (Bakalář) with the Czech edition of Mein Kampf (Hitler)
• Institut pro výzkum tabuizovaných témat (Institute for Research into Taboo Topics) - Petr Bakalář's homepage