Scott Alexander is too dumb to distinguish between the sources in a US news article, a right-wing think tank, and a non-partisan think-tank -- so he can't make up this mind! IS this what "independent" voters are? The actually stupid who imagine themselves smarter than 'both sides'?
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posted on October 13, 2020 07:54 PM by
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Even better: the author of the blog post on the Heritage Foundation
site arguing that predominantly black high schools are just as well
funded as predominantly white schools is none other than Jason Richwine
– who was later fired from Heritage because of his racist views and ties
to white nationalism.
A little further down the thread he muses about how there must be an underlying factor that causes black students performance to be worse than their white peers. But instead of the obvious conclusion "a centuries long history of discrimination that still massively influences peoples lifes today" he wanders of to some related but largely irrelevant point.
Leftist positions are so alien to him, they don't even cross his mind when trying to explain social phenomena.
> That's a complicated question, but we know that even within single schools there are striking performance differences between the white and black students, so whatever causes those would cause the across-school differences too.
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I don't know how much of the gap is explained by within-school vs. between-school factors.
He knows the difference, he’s just using them to show what he thinks
is the spectrum of acceptable thought.
The problem is that the mainstream news, as well as the “tax policy
center” and everything else connected to Brookings, all have an
extremely neoliberal, pro-capitalist, pro-war bias. While the Heritage
Foundation is nazis wearing spectacles.
And maybe that is the range of accepted thought in the US.
Which is kind of the whole problem – a problem Scott has never seemed
particularly interested in. Which is baffling to me. There is a whole
world of thought between the left and the centre that gets zero voice in
American discourse.
Urban institute and EPI exist too and are to the liberal and further left respectively.
Brookings being the one centrist Democrats listen to is an issue, but Progressive caucus and beyond have better thinktanks
That’s what I said, Urban is liberal-left, EPI is further left because it is the unions’ chosen thinktank
As the Democrats become more progressive, there will be a demand for different types of leftward policy and I think more thinktanks will form. Economics departments like those in UMass-Amherst and UMKC are distinctly leftward too, more universities may make departments like those.
This is a prime example of how rationalists are basically parrots
that lack even basic critical thinking skills. This dude is legit
willing to just know those citations exist then just drop them all, but
unwilling to actually read them and make up his mind. Like, this
pretense of neutrality is just so dumb.
Even better: the author of the blog post on the Heritage Foundation site arguing that predominantly black high schools are just as well funded as predominantly white schools is none other than Jason Richwine – who was later fired from Heritage because of his racist views and ties to white nationalism.
But duh duh duh, Scott doesn’t know any better.
He knows the difference, he’s just using them to show what he thinks is the spectrum of acceptable thought.
The problem is that the mainstream news, as well as the “tax policy center” and everything else connected to Brookings, all have an extremely neoliberal, pro-capitalist, pro-war bias. While the Heritage Foundation is nazis wearing spectacles.
And maybe that is the range of accepted thought in the US. Which is kind of the whole problem – a problem Scott has never seemed particularly interested in. Which is baffling to me. There is a whole world of thought between the left and the centre that gets zero voice in American discourse.
apparently yes ;)
Some people are so open-minded their brains fall out
it’s those enlightened rationalists
they’re “some people”
Yes.
This is a prime example of how rationalists are basically parrots that lack even basic critical thinking skills. This dude is legit willing to just know those citations exist then just drop them all, but unwilling to actually read them and make up his mind. Like, this pretense of neutrality is just so dumb.
Undecided voters are basically Pakleds.