Also racial issues just don't seem to register for Dan Savage, but in his column yesterday he pointed out that Prop 8 went the wrong way by a much smaller margin than the last time gay marriage was on the ballot in CA. The other thought that comes to mind: I am all for gay marriage, It will happen soon or later, one way or another. And sometimes I wish people who care about gay rights issues would also try to excite the chattering classes about other issues too. I remember the flap about gays in the military at the beginning of the Clinton administration while the country was also trying to grapple with health care. Gay marriage will solve some health care problems; alliances and targetted action on health care would solve a lot more and for a lot more people.
DC On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com>wrote:
> Doug asked:
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> Is [William Saletan] the jackass who was promoting genetic/racial
> theories of IQ not all that long ago?
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> Yes, he is.
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> I wrote about his dark night of the liberal soul regarding race here:
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> "The Discussion of Black IQs Considered as a Downhill Auto Race"
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> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2007/2007-November/022210.html>
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> Perhaps it's unfair, but after his Slate series on 'Black IQs', I'm
> inclined to think of him as a clever idiot.
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> His statistical information seems impressive; he even quotes the
> National Black Justice Coalition to add a patina of super legitimacy
> ('look, a black LGBT group is saying this, not me!').
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> Still, as Miles points out, none of that supports Saletan's conclusion
> we should throw more science at the reluctant till they 'get it'.
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> I've been a Future Science Jesus my entire life and have convinced
> precisely one person of something using 'data'. Dorene's right:
> alliance building is key.
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