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by skh 8y ago
It might be more valuable for blacks to focus on ways to lower the actual crime rate than the perceived crime rate. Oh definitely this is needed. Poor city black culture has some very negative aspects to it that this community needs to a
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by skh 8y ago
I didn’t make any implicit ad hominems. From my perspective you read what I write and interpret it with an assumption that I’ve got a particular agenda. Here are some pertinent quotes from what I wrote: I did not say that weberc2 is wron
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by skh 8y ago
Thank you for your comment. Why does this attire evoke the image of a stereotypical example of a criminal? Where does this stereotype come from? Is the stereotype correct? Does it have anything to do with originating with black culture
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by skh 8y ago
weberc2 said that the cited paper/study/opinion piece was puzzling given one recent event. I suggested that weberc2 might want to further study the issue to see if his/her perception is wrong. I did not say that weberc2 is
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by skh 8y ago
In general I agree with the sentiment of your comments. I’m not one to dismiss a person’s opinion posted on an internet discussion site due to lack of cited studies. No one can provide studies to back up their views in every instance. In
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by skh 8y ago
I mentioned that whites are a majority of the population. I wrote: This despite the fact that whites - due to being a majority of th population - consume a majority of the welfare. I’m just posting my own observations and views. I did q
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by skh 8y ago
You can cite anecdotes and the person you responded to cited a study. The puzzling thing is that you choose to focus on the former and not the latter. You have been presented evidence that your perception is not correct. Perhaps study the
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by skh 8y ago
I think you read what I wrote with some wrong assumptions. For instance you seem to think that my comment on blacks and crimes was a statement that supports a view of the legal system being racist. Nothing I said implies this or can reaso
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by skh 8y ago
In the U.S. we have a lot of problems that are really socio-economic that are discussed in terms of race. There are historical reasons for this and this is particularly true in the southeastern part of the country. When white people talk
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by skh 8y ago
We’re always 10 years from total annihilation and destruction. I know people talk in hyperbole to make a point but can you point to any credible source in the last 30 years stating we are close to total annilhilation within the next 50 ye
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by skh 8y ago
I think you have it wrong. The language was deliberately changed due to work done by Frank Lutz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming
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by skh 8y ago
Frank Lutz is a big reason for why we went from talking about Global Warming to Climate Change. Frank Lutz is a famous Republcan operative. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming
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by skh 8y ago
But then he doesn't get to passive-aggressively whine about all of his piles of money that the government won't take from him. Suppose you are right that he is being passive agressive. I strongly disagree with this assessment b
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by skh 8y ago
Your position is consistent but for most people not tenable. It’s hard to claim that the “information” as you put it is abstract when it exists in video format that can be watched. When you make statement like Moreover, once you start ce
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by skh 8y ago
Well, society decides. Sometimes societies have a framework for deciding the grey area between individual rights and the right of society to regulate (in the form of government). That’s what political and legal battles are all about. The
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by skh 8y ago
You think child porn is pretty much the only thing that is illegal to video? I think you should do further research on this issue. There’s a lot more than just child porn that is illegal to video. All societies have regulated speech. I d
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by skh 8y ago
Do you apply this standard to all beliefs you have? It’s interesting that you wrote what you did when you could have done a search and found some answers. From the third link below: Meanwhile, Americans’ international peers enjoy more eff
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by skh 8y ago
I never suggested, hinted, or implied that peoples’ non-expert intuition is always wrong. I never suggested, or implied that people keep their brains shut and feelings suppressed if those feelings are not in line with expert opinion.
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by skh 8y ago
How do you eplain all the instances of when government has shown regard for doing the best for its citizens? Do you apply the same logic you used here for government on corporations? Instead of focusing on the fact that it was a governmen
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by skh 8y ago
I’ve only been talking about topics in which the overwhelming majority of experts in that area agree upon. If each year’s class of residency graduates in psychiatry all have different opinions on a given topic then this clearly is not in t
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by skh 8y ago
In an area as concrete and black/white as mathematics it’s still hard to convince some non experts that we really do know what we are talking about. Imagine how much harder it is in trying to convince anti vaxers to vaccinate. When s
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by skh 8y ago
My area of expertise is mathematics. A number of times I’ve explained to someone that the concept of infinite sets is a well defined one. There is a definition and it allows us to work with such sets. I provided the (from my perspective)
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by skh 8y ago
I should have said speech instead of ideas. I think it’s clear from what I wrote what I was getting at. All societies regulate speech. I don’t know anyone who thinks speech should never be regulated.
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by skh 8y ago
We don’t allow people selling certain homeopathic remedies to make certain medical claims while selling the product. So we do regulate speech.
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by skh 8y ago
Of course people are free to practice medicine on themselves. They are free to make up their own minds on what they think is right/wrong. They ought not be free, in my opinion, to unduly influence others. At least not necessarily fr
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by skh 8y ago
We is you, me, and society at large. Yes, it really is the best we can do. If a very large majority of the people who study an area of science agree on a conclusion in that area then it’s more likely they are right than someone who has no
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by skh 8y ago
Science gets it wrong sometimes. New information requires revision. The best we can do is go by consensus expert opinion. There will always be some probabilty of error but we needn’t be afraid to declare some things dangerous and wrong.
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by skh 8y ago
It’s a statement of how I perceive things. It’s not an anti-American or pro-China perspective. It’s just the way the world is now. American soft power is being diminished. I don’t think this is disputable or controversial. As China’s e
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by skh 8y ago
It’s becoming a multi polar world. American soft power is being diminished. I think it’s better to say that obeisance to America is no longer the only consideration.
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by skh 8y ago
All of mathematics is built on sand in the sense that there necessarily are going to be undefined terms. There’s no way around this. Think about the English language. Grab a dictionary. Look up any word in it. Look at the definition of

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