Great piece. I hope you can salvage the data for the study you mention because it sounds like the results would be quite interesting.

Mother fuck. People need to knock this shit off. I don't like everything she has to say either. But some how I can manage to disagree without needing to threaten the woman's life.

They specifically noted Jazz and blues. Which while I much prefer those forms (I'm a sucker for instrumentals) I would say the rap has a broader reach with her demographic of concern (younger adults and children) so while I'm not a huge fan of the genre I have to say that it was a good choice (and for all I know she…

Very interesting post. Props on pointing out that it hasn't been peer reviewed yet. That's better reporting than I expect from the big news companies.

Why don't you explain why you think hysteria about a deadly virus is the same as racism (or if your talking about some other part of my statement enlighten me as to where I'm failing to look outside my own privilege). As I've already explained why I don't think it is in this case (the historic portion of the piece…

They probably are. Though they may also have been against vacating a ruling by a lower court without doing the whole nine yards for them to issue a full ruling on the law.

Probably because her book sets up strawmen and extremes for the antagonists. Then again having been in Russia during the communist uprising and having seen similar things happen I suppose she thought it might be some what realistic. And it isn't like no democracy has ever set prices for what it purchase from it's…

Actually a lot of Libertarian philosophy is based on Classical Liberalism. Of course Ayn Rand's Objectivism is also largely based on it.

Heil apparently is an actual surname. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_(sur…

Quite often. I disagree with some of the authors conclusions. Especially the intent she is implying with the pictures.

Being injected with nerve toxins, not just for women anymore.

On what? The article? Your initial inflammatory post? My happieness that this isn't a CNN article so "your dumb" no "your dumb" tends to be the worst things get (CNN's comment are often rife with racist name calling and xenophobia).

Did you add any new insight to what was in the article or critique it?

This is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing this.

Fair point I suppose. I took it to be a generalized comparison of racism in 2 cases that they felt were comparable statistically. Not that it was accurate (as someone pointed out most of the South was on board with slavery even if they didn't own them and in the US a plantation needed to have 20 or more slaves (though…

They settled out of court. That's why. Like the candy bandit said "judges" don't like it, if they settle out of court it means they get your money and avoid the damage a public trial could cause them.

How are they anarchists?

I would argue that this is an example of something that can happen in a free market (assuming that includes contract rights). Though this is really crappy (the restaurant, the article is depressing but well done).

No one said it was the same thing. They said making a generalization based on skin color is racist.

Spot on. Most American's were racist. And for the North the war had nothing to do with slavery. At least from a very cynical perspective it was for the benefit of the rich who traded across state lines (unsurprisingly most wars are for things that disproportionately benefit the wealthy).