[lbo-talk] specious generalizations...

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 14:34:21 PDT 2005


On 7/16/05, Chris Doss wrote:
> I have seen this bizarro confusion of Islamist
> quasi-fascism and "anti-imperialism" in Chechnya for a
> billion years now.

Justin writes: >It's just that 3/4 of the left can't
> hear the word biology mentioned in the same context as
> behaviort without thinking that that it's some sort of
> reactionary justification for the worst aspects of the
> existing order.

Michael Pugliese seems to think that the "left" is almost entirely populated by "third worldists."

I wish that people would stop making generalizations about some allegedly big segment of the "left" that has crazy opinions. It's a version of the straw-man argument. Instead, simply present your viewpoint and argue its validity (or argue against the specifics of some specific viewpoint). -- Jim Devine "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" -- Richard Feynman



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