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    Would you like to address any points specifically, or nah?

    For the record, I dont think it matters who the author is. The fact that you are focusing your energy there tells me you dont want to touch the arguments. Also, zerohedge said they confirmed the authenticity

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    This is a thread about race. There is a long letter that makes several points about race.

    You are choosing to discuss the author.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Would you like to address any points specifically, or nah?

    For the record, I dont think it matters who the author is. The fact that you are focusing your energy there tells me you dont want to touch the arguments. Also, zerohedge said they confirmed the authenticity
    That's part of it. It is so long and all over the place that I hesitate to engage in a discussion of its contents. If it were more coherent and concise, I'd do so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    This is a thread about race. There is a long letter that makes several points about race.

    You are choosing to discuss the author.

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    Tell you what. If you want to pick one paragraph or point in the letter, I'd be happy to share my view. There are some parts of it I agree with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Tell you what. If you want to pick one paragraph or point in the letter, I'd be happy to share my view. There are some parts of it I agree with.
    I'd like to know what you disagree with actually
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    That letter goes off the rails at a few points but a lot of uncomfortable truths in there. If we insist on looking at these problems through a PC lens we will not solve the problem. Heres something no one ever talks about. Police dont believe you when you say you cant breath because many people fake anything they can to try to control or delay the arrest. I view that a lot like fake rape claims should be taken seriously because of the damage it does to the real victims credibility. I dont want people charged for doing it because it would be abused and it's hard to prove but if less people faked it cops could take it more seriously.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    I'd like to know what you disagree with actually
    much of the letter consists of arguing against things that no one is arguing

    for example

    "The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians."

    This is farcical. No one is making this claim. It is juvenile strawmanism. I think I will revise down that C-.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Would you like to address any points specifically, or nah?

    For the record, I dont think it matters who the author is. The fact that you are focusing your energy there tells me you dont want to touch the arguments. Also, zerohedge said they confirmed the authenticity
    of course it matters who the author is

    Tenured faculty do not write letters that " go off the rails"

    Reading this I see nothing I haven't read on a baseball message board
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    give this , like everything else you and thethe bring forward, a few days to verify authenticity
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    I guess you guys are not really anti-elitist. Otherwise a pseudo-Berkeley affiliation wouldn't get you so excited. What you seem to be is pro fake elitist.
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    this looks like a picture from my Jr High School days.
    Except then you could see all of the faces



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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    much of the letter consists of arguing against things that no one is arguing

    for example

    "The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians."

    This is farcical. No one is making this claim. It is juvenile strawmanism. I think I will revise down that C-.
    This doesn't happen?

    You're being serious?
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    Pretty sure he is objecting to the use of the word "entirely". As in its part of the problem but not the whole problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post
    Pretty sure he is objecting to the use of the word "entirely". As in its part of the problem but not the whole problem.
    It is not written as a thoughtful piece to engage other people in discussion. It is more in the spirit of thethe saying police are not gunning blacks down so there is no evidence of a problem.
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    You've literally disproved not a single statement yet

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    In my experience when tenured faculty so much as wrote a letter to the editor for the local rag they always sign their name.

    And live for the intellectual confrontation

    This has been out since this past Thursday. No one from UC Berkley has contested it or engaged in a back and forth and no one has claimed authorship
    If this goes on into the end of the week this is for lack of a better word .
    Bull****

    Still curious to know what and how we address the grievances of BLM or for that matter MAGA
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    You've literally disproved not a single statement yet
    yeah...like no one has "proven" differential police treatment of blacks
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    The author is irellevant. The content is what matters.

    But I dont blame anybody for claiming anonymity knowing how the mob works.

    We've seen how many people now unemployed in the media industry in a month simply for publishing an unapproved narrative?

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    the content is the same content you have written over the past 10 years.
    move a participle here an adverb there.

    You will have to do better than try to pass off your white grievance as " academic"

    Dont you get tired of being the ideological victim over every ****ing issue ?
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    Trumps niece claimed anonymity if you want to discuss the "mob"

    UC Berkley History Department is not "media"
    and this is not in any way an academic "publication"

    my guess is ... we'll see
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    There is nothing new or even interesting in this
    and should it all be on the level.

    What do we do about it ?
    Are you advocating clearing out all of academia with some sort of an acid test?
    And who decides who gets to stay and who gets to go?
    Our local university Bussiness Department has been over taken with Koch.
    Do we "censure" them too ? Real epeople with names and faces have stood up to that money

    And the big picture racial issues this writer brings up --- how do you resolve those issues?
    ...........

    or like a true Libertarian you can throw stones but not build anything with those stones
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    It is not written as a thoughtful piece to engage other people in discussion. It is more in the spirit of thethe saying police are not gunning blacks down so there is no evidence of a problem.
    Well when the data overwhelmingly shows no dissproportionate treatment its the onus of the person with an opposing viewpoint to bring something else to the table.

    So please, aside from saying 'bro'(hahahahaha) where is your evidence that this systemic racism is happening? I have concsluive data. What do you have? Trump hatred?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    the content is the same content you have written over the past 10 years.
    move a participle here an adverb there.

    You will have to do better than try to pass off your white grievance as " academic"

    Dont you get tired of being the ideological victim over every ****ing issue ?
    ////////////////

    Trumps niece claimed anonymity if you want to discuss the "mob"

    UC Berkley History Department is not "media"
    and this is not in any way an academic "publication"

    my guess is ... we'll see
    .................................................. ...........................

    There is nothing new or even interesting in this
    and should it all be on the level.

    What do we do about it ?
    Are you advocating clearing out all of academia with some sort of an acid test?
    And who decides who gets to stay and who gets to go?
    Our local university Bussiness Department has been over taken with Koch.
    Do we "censure" them too ?

    And the big picture racial issues this writer brings up --- how do you resolve those issues?
    ...........

    or like a true Libertarian you can throw stones but not build anything with those stones
    Exactly...standard grievance dressed up as courageous academic dissent...give me a break
    "I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."

    "I am your retribution."

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