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> Right Justin. You would have been a lot of help in the Salem Witch Trials.
> "Well it's not implausible these women are witches who have brought social
> misfortune upon us...But should we really burn them?" So you were making an
> argument against gassing and sterilizing people though granting that it's
> not implausible that there are groups that are racially inferior in terms
> of inherited intelligence, though the concepts of race, heritability and
> intelligence have no scientific validity in this context. With friends like
> this...
>
> Yours, Rakesh
Actually, I was arguing for affirmative action, not against mass murder or sterilization. And I did argue that the concepts did lack validity in that context. If your point is that reasoned argument is not always called for, I agree. If your point is that it never called for when faced with ideologues of the other side, I am mystified. If your point is that it was not called for in the context of an audience that had no chance of even hearing anything Levin said, much less being persuaded by him, I disagree. However, I obviously miscalculated, since the audience reacted, at best, the way you did.
Yours in wimpy mealy mouthed liberalism
jks