tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post8921523554951457154..comments2024-03-14T11:09:32.759-05:00Comments on Falkenblog: Disingenuous Hair SplittingEric Falkensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07243687157322033496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-42983998965690397782010-10-20T08:54:36.775-05:002010-10-20T08:54:36.775-05:00Dave: How does 'miscegenation' relate? He...Dave: How does 'miscegenation' relate? He seems to be saying that you can't say anything about blacks unless you embed it within a complete socio-cultural-economic-historical theory of the West, which of course does not stop him from selectively saying things about black culture without the embedding when convenient to his point. I think he's just totally self-serving to how rhetoric can be applied criticizing blacks versus lobbying for redress and victimization status.Eric Falkensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07243687157322033496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-29609206726554641692010-10-20T06:50:48.771-05:002010-10-20T06:50:48.771-05:00I think the technical term is the "Chewbacca ...I think the technical term is the "Chewbacca defense" <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defensepaulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-47372119750943957322010-10-20T00:10:23.330-05:002010-10-20T00:10:23.330-05:00Reading my comment, I realize I used "culture...Reading my comment, I realize I used "culture" in an ungenerous way myself. Perhaps Loury and Sowell did as well. If it's ungenerous and hostile to define black culture as a bundle of dysfunctions, then of course it's also ungenerous and hostile to define southern white or American culture that way either. That wasn't my intention, just sloppy writing on my part.Davehttp://steamcatapult.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-60204635276253480672010-10-19T13:37:15.497-05:002010-10-19T13:37:15.497-05:00Not so fast. Old school monetarism still works, it...Not so fast. Old school monetarism still works, it is just very difficult to measure money created by the shadow banking system:<br />http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2010/10/was-milton-friedman-right-after-all.html<br /><br />By the way, serious monetarists just measure MV these days.themoneydemand.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13082972557599397165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-51222270342592063722010-10-19T12:12:00.404-05:002010-10-19T12:12:00.404-05:00Ugh, I just watched that. Loury is a really disgu...Ugh, I just watched that. Loury is a really disgusting person, and certainly bolstered by previously impressionistic low view of ability. It's instructive how intensely he tries to poison the debate almost immediately by parrying with various bomb throwers including: "this isn't 1963", "money-grubbing Jews", and various allusions to the myth of mulattoes by forcible miscegenation. He obviously wasn't there to have an honest debate.Billarenoreply@blogger.com