Comments on: The most common findings are thought to require special explanation

By: James James

James James — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 15:35:25 +0000

Same goes for the various male-female gaps. When someone attributes these gaps to “discrimination”, a good rhetorical technique is to ask them how big they think the gap would be if there was no discrimination.

By: lucklucky

lucklucky — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:16:36 +0000

In a sense the Opressor-Victim and the Exploiter-Exploited are thought mechanisms to build the return of a permanent sin.

As a metaphysical apple from which to derive power.

By: lucklucky

lucklucky — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:11:16 +0000

Further: And most of times it is just employed as a tool to show virtue as a way to get social power then afterwards translated into political economic power.

By: lucklucky

lucklucky — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:04:25 +0000

All this text and never appears the crucial world: Marxism.

Marxist neo-primitive culture can only explain reality by Opressor-Victim or the Exploiter-Exploited duality.

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:26:10 +0000

Oh come on.

It takes a lot more than that to overcome magical thinking.

The magical thinking of the self-defined rationalist, or the critical theorist [these don't have too much overlap except in sensibility] is particularly powerful.

It is perfectly possible to be aware of the realities of the Jim Crow era and still acknowledge Sowell’s and others figures as valid. But by themselves they could trigger some sort of outrage and ritual accusations of being a Denialist.

Never fear. Multicampus covens of grad students shall gather by night to chant the mantra of Systemic Racism, and all will be well again.

By: Adar

Adar — Tue, 29 May 2018 17:04:31 +0000

“when a disparity runs the other way — that is, blacks outperforming whites — discrimination is never invoked as a causal factor.”

Black men get prostate cancer at a rate twice as great as white men. Always said to be a result of a lack of health care in black areas. But white men get bladder cancer at a rate three times as great as black men. Never said to be a result of a lack of health care in white areas.