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Re: Bulgarian Gypsies (Counter Argument)! (4.00 / 2)

Racism needs no proof. They can make it up anytime.

Lemme refine this. Racism can also operate with proof - by turning the particular into the general. "some X did Y" becomes "X do Y". And unless members of X are 100% innocents, racism will always find examples to reinforce the theory.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Apr 14th, 2006 at 06:52:09 PM EST
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Lemme refine this. Racism can also operate with proof - by turning the particular into the general. "some X did Y" becomes "X do Y". And unless members of X are 100% innocents, racism will always find examples to reinforce the theory.

You are talking about generalizing here, "if one is bad, all are bad". We have statistics to prove whether that is right or wrong.

Be careful! Is it classified?

by darin (dkaloyanov[at]gmail.com) on Sat Apr 15th, 2006 at 07:10:59 AM EST
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Re: Bulgarian Gypsies (Counter Argument)! (none / 0)

None of your sweeping generalising statements I flagged were based in statistics. And statistics is irrelevant, at least if you try to equate "more of X do Y than of Z" with "all/most X do Y", as you do with crime statistics below.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Apr 17th, 2006 at 05:18:53 PM EST
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Re: Bulgarian Gypsies (Counter Argument)! (none / 0)

In fact I've provided statistics (I've linked to Worldpress article) and commented that they are important.

Be careful! Is it classified?

by darin (dkaloyanov[at]gmail.com) on Tue Apr 18th, 2006 at 04:08:47 AM EST
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Re: Bulgarian Gypsies (Counter Argument)! (none / 0)

Not for what I flagged as sweeping statements, I repeat.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Apr 18th, 2006 at 06:40:41 AM EST
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Re: Bulgarian Gypsies (Counter Argument)! (none / 0)

Provide a couple of the most shocking for you and I will try to provide links (or/and will translate).

Be careful! Is it classified?

by darin (dkaloyanov[at]gmail.com) on Tue Apr 18th, 2006 at 12:36:04 PM EST
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