Ignorance
I once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
( , Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
I once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
( , Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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and so you confirmed her analysis
So it seems that she was alluding to the cradle of humanity being in what is now Africa so that she was probably correct in her rather bold statement and the people you lovingly categorise who appear several millenia later and are not of African origin (in the modern sense of the word) merely confirm that some white people have done rather well at something started by black people. In the same way that lots of non-white people have also done something very well too. Not sure yours is the killer argument.
( , Thu 30 Aug 2012, 16:01, 2 replies)
So it seems that she was alluding to the cradle of humanity being in what is now Africa so that she was probably correct in her rather bold statement and the people you lovingly categorise who appear several millenia later and are not of African origin (in the modern sense of the word) merely confirm that some white people have done rather well at something started by black people. In the same way that lots of non-white people have also done something very well too. Not sure yours is the killer argument.
( , Thu 30 Aug 2012, 16:01, 2 replies)
Isn't that sort of reductive reasoning
going to lead to a collective agreement that amoeba invented everything?
If she was drawing a distinction (by using 'black' as a class) then it does actually have to be distinct ie. if she meant black and all those of probable black origin rather than black as opposed to white etc. The former is not really an argument so doesn't need stating, the latter is and is also fairly easily refutable, n'est ce pas?
Bear in mind she claimed that 'whites stole it'.
( , Fri 31 Aug 2012, 8:52, closed)
going to lead to a collective agreement that amoeba invented everything?
If she was drawing a distinction (by using 'black' as a class) then it does actually have to be distinct ie. if she meant black and all those of probable black origin rather than black as opposed to white etc. The former is not really an argument so doesn't need stating, the latter is and is also fairly easily refutable, n'est ce pas?
Bear in mind she claimed that 'whites stole it'.
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