http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/11/30/racist-psychics/ Essays on politics and the social sciences. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:38:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/11/30/racist-psychics/comment-page-1/#comment-4 nsoutter Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:07:32 +0000 http://lamarsoutternews.com/?p=9#comment-4 Regrettably this newsletter does miss, in my opinion, one point. The argument that he posed to argue that statistics alone do not necessarily justify a position – an ad absurdum argument he was proposing, could have been just as easily made without the use of the word “black”. This begs the question why did he use the word “black”, and at what point do the costs associated with such an argument outweigh the benefits of making his point. Regrettably this newsletter does miss, in my opinion, one point. The argument that he posed to argue that statistics alone do not necessarily justify a position – an ad absurdum argument he was proposing, could have been just as easily made without the use of the word “black”. This begs the question why did he use the word “black”, and at what point do the costs associated with such an argument outweigh the benefits of making his point.

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