Muppets (was Re: BK on Identity)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Anecdotes -- especially un-representative anecdotes -- allow you to
>>  grasp neither structure nor agency, much less agency rooted in
>>  structure.  Everyone has anecdotes -- including neo-conservatives who
>>  can also trot out black muppets (my black neighbor, my black friend,
>>  etc.) in their anecdotes.
>>
>>  Yoshie
>********
>
>Better to have charts and graphs. Gotta hand out the regressions to the one's
>who believe in the material benefits of racism [make it so!] first so they can
>feel confirmed by the high priests of civilization. Don't worry, they're
>sufficiently beyond the rational/irrational dyad to let any counter evidence
>deter them from their ways.
>
>"Dr. My multiple sclerosis symptoms disappear after I smoke pot."
>
>"No, that's impossible, we don't have any evidence of that."
>
>Ian

Why limit alternatives to anecdotes versus charts, graphs, and 
regression analyses?  Rejection of the former doesn't logically 
entail the embrace of the latter.

Yoshie