tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post6355133941793552716..comments2024-03-27T09:44:59.329-04:00Comments on Free North Carolina: Support for Confederate Flag now a “mental illness”Brock Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-17916318740735151362013-02-26T21:51:37.461-05:002013-02-26T21:51:37.461-05:00Thanks man and I'll make this a separate post....Thanks man and I'll make this a separate post. I used to visit Taki's every day, but don't have the time anymore to go to most of my favorites, so I thank readers like you for alerting me to these gems.:)Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-63204979129620070142013-02-26T21:12:11.615-05:002013-02-26T21:12:11.615-05:00FYI for you Americans far to the south. The Toront...FYI for you Americans far to the south. The Toronto Star is referred to as 'The Red Star' for it's pro-communist slant for the past 70 or so years, and also as the 'Liberal Party Newsletter'. It is far more to the left than say the New York Times. Also the Toronto District School Board is the most 'progressive' school board in Canada which is saying something. In the past few years they have created 'Afrocentric' curricula for black students and at one High School an Imam comes in every Friday to give a sermon to Muslim students. The seating arrangement is boys in front, girls behind them and any girls who are menstruating at the back of the room against the wall as far from the Imam as possible. <br /><br />Here's an article <br /><br />http://takimag.com/article/menstruating_at_the_mosqueteria/print#axzz2M3rQr0ig<br /><br /><br />Al_in_OttawaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-10016891693807029352013-02-26T14:32:36.962-05:002013-02-26T14:32:36.962-05:00The weakest of excuses will do to further Control....The weakest of excuses will do to further Control.Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-74314376659865568262013-02-26T14:24:31.737-05:002013-02-26T14:24:31.737-05:00"We are only dealing with a handful of studen..."We are only dealing with a handful of students who view it as a white pride kind of thing, "<br /><br />Can't have that! It could lead to questioning affirmative action and the benefits of diversity!Roger Uhttp://nclinksandthinks.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-51211232012353467462013-02-25T20:23:20.859-05:002013-02-25T20:23:20.859-05:00Great post.Great post.Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-13851111486291808022013-02-25T20:19:25.576-05:002013-02-25T20:19:25.576-05:00Let me put on my (dusty, since I've retired) p...Let me put on my (dusty, since I've retired) psychiatrist's hat: no.<br /><br />I just pulled the abstract up on the internet (and I'll be damned to the lowest level of Baptist hell before I shell out good money to buy the whole thing for 24 hours, as is Wiley's standard practice), and it can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00797.x/abstract<br /><br />Here's the first red flag: "We predicted that exposure to the Confederate flag would activate negativity toward Blacks and result in lowered willingness to vote for Obama." Note the 'predicted', rather than the more neutral (and standard) 'hypothesized'. To no one's surprise "As predicted, participants primed with the Confederate flag reported less willingness to vote for Obama than those primed with a neutral symbol." So, they proved what they wanted to prove. Can you say 'thumb on the scale?'<br /><br />Now, here's my question: what if they had done this study with, say, actual crime statistics? Since the proportion of crimes committed by black men is FAR out of proportion to their prevalence in the population, what would it have shown if 'priming' voters with crime statistics made them more reluctant to vote for a black man? RAAACISM? Or, maybe common sense?<br /><br />Still and all, Anon probably has the right of it. Although, I feel a letter to the principal of this school coming on...nah. I'm not going to waste my time.Hype And Failhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01303538046088087655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-72944950961870422972013-02-25T17:12:36.889-05:002013-02-25T17:12:36.889-05:00:):)Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-33397771151648705542013-02-25T15:41:58.161-05:002013-02-25T15:41:58.161-05:00Brock, i believe TPTB already have! The writing i...Brock, i believe TPTB already have! The writing is on the wall (IMHO).Roswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12168288596103213288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-73196066818125034522013-02-25T15:21:42.534-05:002013-02-25T15:21:42.534-05:00Heh! Good one. Hope they don't think of it.:...Heh! Good one. Hope they don't think of it.:)Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-28478603884840709452013-02-25T15:09:53.811-05:002013-02-25T15:09:53.811-05:00...and since mental illness is a prohibiting facto......and since mental illness is a prohibiting factor for gun ownership...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com