tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post3548599347903789255..comments2023-11-03T08:25:59.048-07:00Comments on The Enlightenment Project: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-88080904308297845702011-10-07T11:55:04.158-07:002011-10-07T11:55:04.158-07:00Thanks for this article, very effective informatio...Thanks for this article, very effective information.formula 1http://www.vbarcelone.com/index.php/component/content/article/15--1-/27--1-noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-90626962732343136832009-07-19T16:35:01.212-07:002009-07-19T16:35:01.212-07:00I suppose the thinking is that the noble lie is ea...I suppose the thinking is that the noble lie is easier to get across in a public address. But then sound bites can come back to bite, qite apart from any other consideration. So the hard truth would have been better both ways.Ophelia Bensonhttp://www.butterfliesandwheels.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-12912170364014429212009-07-19T11:17:10.491-07:002009-07-19T11:17:10.491-07:00I don't know. Both kinds of communities are sy...I don't know. Both kinds of communities are systematically distorted along arbitrary lines. But by creating an affirmative action system that's distorted in favor of inclusiveness, and consistent with the demands of merit, you have a kind of diversity of starting points, a diversity of intuitions, that may lead to a more competitive environment by providing more grist for the mill of BLS Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09221793753245953967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-71479101102212006152009-07-19T10:27:26.208-07:002009-07-19T10:27:26.208-07:00Of course race, and gender, are not irrelevant: th...Of course race, and gender, are not irrelevant: there is robust empirical evidence for the persistence of implicit bias and discrimination is still a fact of life for us.<br /><br />But why promote the noble lie in response rather than the hard truth that we operate according to these biases, evaluate people unfairly even when we have the best of intentions and, innocently, blamelessly Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-55076061467578189242009-07-19T09:21:43.960-07:002009-07-19T09:21:43.960-07:00Well, yes and no, don't you think?
On the one...Well, yes and no, don't you think?<br /><br />On the one hand yeah, I don't want to do azza talk - azza woman, azza [fill in the blank]. I sure as hell don't want to be imprisoned in some ghetto of 'women's subjects' and I don't want other people to be imprisoned in such ghettoes either.<br /><br />But on the other hand - I kept thinking of Dredd Scott and Plessy - Ophelia Bensonhttp://www.butterfliesandwheels.comnoreply@blogger.com