My grandfather was half Scots-Irish and my daughter-is-law is white. Whites are regularly in and out of my home, especially some "Redneck Revolt" members (anti-fascist). 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Conservatives tell Blacks to pull themselves up by their bootstraps then sue a venture capital firms that aims to do just that. Conservatives have no moral authority to chastise anyone.
Here is a classic Sowell strawman argument
Sowell is an inveterate trafficker in straw man arguments and in slippery logic, so it really doesn’t matter that he “refers to rigorous research” if he misuses it to bolster his position instead of rational conclusions. His columns often impute the worst motives to Democrats and progressives instead of the most logical.
Here is a perfect example, in which Sowell warns against the consequences of “allowing” two Democratic senators to be elected from Georgia:
In this essay, we find two glaring examples of false logic. The first is his creation of a slippery little straw man by implication, when he writes:
Senate Democrats’ leader, Senator Charles Schumer, has already announced what he has in store, if the Democrats get a majority in the Senate. So has President-elect Joe Biden. And it goes way beyond specific policies. It includes institutional changes that can be permanent, and almost guarantee one-party rule in this country, as far out as the eye can see.
If more than 10 million people who are in this country illegally are given the right to vote — and most of those votes are almost certain to go to Democrats — that is a major new political reality that will be with us for generations.
Did you notice the little sleight of hand? Sowell says that Schumer and Biden have said what they “have in store” for the country—but doesn’t bother to quote anything they have said. Then he makes a declarative statement about illegal immigrants voting that has no connection to the previous paragraph, except by innuendo.
in Sowells smaller opinion pieces, he often assumes that the reader is well informed of the issues and familiar with information he references. If not, they would be lengthy essays in one of his books. Unfortunately, it is a shortcoming of necessity in the opinion form media...something I believe he has discussed about its limitations when you are constrained to x amount of words to get a point across... and he does reference one thing in particular, Bidens promise to not give any federal funding to Charter schools. "These politicians are almost all Democrats. President-elect Biden has already assured teachers unions that there will be no more federal money for charter schools. The Trump administration gave more than $9 million to a charter school network in New York’s ghettos. Do not look for that to happen in a Biden administration." The public schools are failing while Charter schools are thriving the opinion piece is about what is best for youth education. One can not deny the data that Charter schools are performing better than public schools.
According to a Biden campaign official, “Joe Biden opposes the Trump/Devos conception of ‘school choice,’ which is private school vouchers that would destroy our public schools. He’s also against for-profit and low-performing charter schools, and believes in holding all charter schools accountable. He does not oppose districts letting parents choose to send their children to public magnet schools, high-performing public charters, or traditional public schools.”
Magnet schools are part of the local public school system, and function under the same administration (unlike charters). They typically have a curricular focus — like STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) — and students from across the school system with an interest in that curricular focus can attend.
In short, whether Biden opposes school choice depends on one’s definition of school choice. Some consider offering choices between traditional public schools, magnet schools and charter schools to be “choice” — which Biden supports. Others define choice as federal support for private school tuition — which Biden opposes
Biden supports school choice. Conservatives twist the facts. Black Democrats favor school choice. We will see if the recent Stanford study finding improvement in the results in charter schools in 2009 holds up when assessed by other investigators.
My grandfather was half Scots-Irish and my daughter-is-law is white. Whites are regularly in and out of my home, especially some "Redneck Revolt" members (anti-fascist). 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Conservatives tell Blacks to pull themselves up by their bootstraps then sue a venture capital firms that aims to do just that. Conservatives have no moral authority to chastise anyone.
Here is a classic Sowell strawman argument
Sowell is an inveterate trafficker in straw man arguments and in slippery logic, so it really doesn’t matter that he “refers to rigorous research” if he misuses it to bolster his position instead of rational conclusions. His columns often impute the worst motives to Democrats and progressives instead of the most logical.
Here is a perfect example, in which Sowell warns against the consequences of “allowing” two Democratic senators to be elected from Georgia:
https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/columnists/thomas-sowell-a-vote-at-the-crossroads/article_e34abb8c-933b-5650-b0c0-5d43496aeeb7.html
In this essay, we find two glaring examples of false logic. The first is his creation of a slippery little straw man by implication, when he writes:
Senate Democrats’ leader, Senator Charles Schumer, has already announced what he has in store, if the Democrats get a majority in the Senate. So has President-elect Joe Biden. And it goes way beyond specific policies. It includes institutional changes that can be permanent, and almost guarantee one-party rule in this country, as far out as the eye can see.
If more than 10 million people who are in this country illegally are given the right to vote — and most of those votes are almost certain to go to Democrats — that is a major new political reality that will be with us for generations.
Did you notice the little sleight of hand? Sowell says that Schumer and Biden have said what they “have in store” for the country—but doesn’t bother to quote anything they have said. Then he makes a declarative statement about illegal immigrants voting that has no connection to the previous paragraph, except by innuendo.
https://www.quora.com/What-did-Thomas-Sowell-get-wrong-in-Basic-economics?top_ans=127308910
BTW, in Washington’s time, pulling your self up by your bootstraps was a joke. It was a physical impossibility.
in Sowells smaller opinion pieces, he often assumes that the reader is well informed of the issues and familiar with information he references. If not, they would be lengthy essays in one of his books. Unfortunately, it is a shortcoming of necessity in the opinion form media...something I believe he has discussed about its limitations when you are constrained to x amount of words to get a point across... and he does reference one thing in particular, Bidens promise to not give any federal funding to Charter schools. "These politicians are almost all Democrats. President-elect Biden has already assured teachers unions that there will be no more federal money for charter schools. The Trump administration gave more than $9 million to a charter school network in New York’s ghettos. Do not look for that to happen in a Biden administration." The public schools are failing while Charter schools are thriving the opinion piece is about what is best for youth education. One can not deny the data that Charter schools are performing better than public schools.
From FactCheck. org.
According to a Biden campaign official, “Joe Biden opposes the Trump/Devos conception of ‘school choice,’ which is private school vouchers that would destroy our public schools. He’s also against for-profit and low-performing charter schools, and believes in holding all charter schools accountable. He does not oppose districts letting parents choose to send their children to public magnet schools, high-performing public charters, or traditional public schools.”
Magnet schools are part of the local public school system, and function under the same administration (unlike charters). They typically have a curricular focus — like STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) — and students from across the school system with an interest in that curricular focus can attend.
In short, whether Biden opposes school choice depends on one’s definition of school choice. Some consider offering choices between traditional public schools, magnet schools and charter schools to be “choice” — which Biden supports. Others define choice as federal support for private school tuition — which Biden opposes
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trump-twists-bidens-position-on-school-choice-charter-schools/
Biden supports school choice. Conservatives twist the facts. Black Democrats favor school choice. We will see if the recent Stanford study finding improvement in the results in charter schools in 2009 holds up when assessed by other investigators.