On Sunday 28 July 2002 11:31 am, you wrote:
> Never have I read a book which has been damned and derided on almost all
> sides, so steeped in controversy and outrage, yet, after reading this book
> it has become glaringly obvious that the detractors have not read it.
> Perhaps a few of its right-wing* critics have skimmed it looking for choice
> morsels which they can extract from the surrounding context and infuse with
> their own meaning (you know, much like they do with the Bible), so let me
> set a few things straight. What Judith Levine has actually written in her
> book http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/levine_harmful.html "Harmful to
> Minors" is not radical, unusual or beyond common sense.
It's not all that common for people to delcare statistics politically
inocorrect. A few months ago, there was a government inquiry into mobile
phone theft in the UK, and it found that around 70% of mobile theft in the
Greater London area was commited by black youths.
Immediately after this was reported, racial "equality" groups (would there
have been the same outcry if the report found that 70% of mobile thefts in
the Greater London area were commited by white youths?) started frothing out
the mouth declaring the report racist.
When it comes to a controversal study, I'd recommend ignoring all the
comments load with emotional outbursts, and just looking at the numbers. Of
course, if the methods used to conduct the surveys were less than objective,
it's usually a good idea to ignore the reports (i.e. The Bell Curve....
cultural I.Q. tests aren't exactly unbiased)
-- === Mark 'Nurgle' Collins http://www.thisisnurgle.org.uk Stupid IRC quote of the <variable time period>: <phoenix> insider, you'll have to excuse nurgle, he's the epitamy of evil
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