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August 11, 2002
You have it or you don't that's a fallacy
Or: Finally someone let me out of my cage.
I have noticed a trend.
I said that you SEEMED to be IMPLYING something along those lines. . .
Dawn Olsen (same source):
. . . or you really WERE implying I was racist. . .
. . . the implication being that my failure to mention affirmative action by name weakens my position. . .
Emphasis added.
No one else had an English teacher who went totally bugfuck about the difference between imply and infer, then?
While we're at it, Manichaean doesn't mean "someone from Manchester," and racism isn't a fucking on/off switch in your head, where you're either a card-carrying member of the KKK or utterly free from prejudice. Zadeh's first paper on this stuff came out in '65, you must have encountered the idea at some point.
Oh, one last thing. Rachel Lucas, whose site motto is "Life's too short to be politically correct", wrote the following:
But the 'insensitivity' police can just ram it. There is no reason we should guard our words and defuse any ticking bombs of negative association we might inadvertently create.
"We"?
Bitch, you better be pregnant, have a mouse in your pocket, or be talking about humanity in general, because from your post on this, I'm inferring that this is another of those white privileges you claim don't exist.
You maybe want to consider carefully before you answer this one. The title of this post refers to how Jason and George ain't around much to rein me in.
So I don't have to "imply" anything.
Posted by Aaron at August 11, 2002 07:01 PM
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