Comments on: Against Disclaimers

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:26:18 +0000

“If the student fails the course, is the teacher to blame for grading objectively? What about the students who get ‘D’ grades and respond by working harder?” This is strained analogy

“Good point. I don’t doubt the pernicious effect of negative messages. However, I’m not sure what you think is the solution: to censor ourselves for fear of making the situation worse?”

This is also as far fetched. No, but we can simply think different, the discussion anyway was not whether you can, but whether it is right to be racially biased about negative yet true statistics making them weight on an individual, you know the thing about more black people in jail, doesn’t mean the next black individual is more prone to break the law.

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:18:05 +0000

Obviously yes. But where do you see those implication? Did you need a disclaimer?

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:28:11 +0000

Iq tests are made based on paradigm typical of west society. Mind also that a stone age men would make close to 0 score in iq tests, probably, that wouldn’t make him less intelligent, if you accidentally time travelled as a newborn in this past you would do the same because not exposed to what men become. Also a culture non receptive of west paradigm is not necessarily worse.
And yours are anyway a bonafide racist claim as you include genetics and not culture, being jew is no genetic it is a descent, yes so it is partially genetic but they were primarily a people.

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:15:38 +0000

Well, sometimes there are good ideas that wouldn’t hold a pure money based analysis, and its good in in fact about “forcing” the economical model to change, to take the good out of it.

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:06:25 +0000

In fact, take anarchy, I know its difficulties nevetheless i propose it. Afterall even democracy has its difficulties, never overcome.

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:03:40 +0000

In fact you are not racist as long as you limit it to observe the somatic traits, including possible difference in force strength whatever. Once you correlate race to a cultural behaviour well you are plain wrong, culture is not linked to race but interdipendently, say, if a southafrican get adopted by americans he will have an american culture. And even among cultures there can be different individual behaviour so we always have to consider the individual.
But this has not to be implied every time.

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:58:03 +0000

But actually it is false, i bet you agree.

By: Sociology Graduate Student

Sociology Graduate Student — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:01:00 +0000

While I appreciate this post, I think there are also times when people should give more disclaimers than they do.

People tend to hold many beliefs with too much confidence. One of the best ways to encourage them to be more skeptical is to demonstrate that you are skeptical of your own beliefs. The way one does this, is by offering disclaimers.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:49:00 +0000

As a concrete example:

Hardworking Americans voted for Clinton; ergo Obama voters are non-working elitists.

By: anomdebus

anomdebus — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:17:00 +0000

Hopefully,
I didn’t see anything on the webpage linked to your name, so I disregarded your message.. Any significance in the numerical sequence I was not able to discern? (there was an apparent transcription error in one of those sequences)
Also, I wasn’t 100% clear on the message I did receive, proving apparently a little cleverness will get you only so far