Comments for Steven White http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on For Those Considering a Political Science Ph.D. by AbuHatem http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/for-those-considering-a-political-science-phd/#comment-93 AbuHatem Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:30:04 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-93 That's why you take a program that is more rooted in actual politics, governance, and policy than one which is more scientific! There are many out there. But the problem is also that some programs are way too on the political philosophy side as well. There are some more balanced programs however if you look! That’s why you take a program that is more rooted in actual politics, governance, and policy than one which is more scientific! There are many out there. But the problem is also that some programs are way too on the political philosophy side as well. There are some more balanced programs however if you look!

]]> Comment on Race, Class, and Homophobia by Recent Links Tagged With "homophobia" - JabberTags http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/race-class-and-homophobia/#comment-92 Recent Links Tagged With "homophobia" - JabberTags Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:04:08 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-92 [...] Police investigate homophobia in Arab-language publication Saved by biosfear on Thu 25-12-2008 Race, Class, and Homophobia Saved by mikebhughes on Thu 18-12-2008 Gay Men’s Health Crisis Launches Public Service Campaign [...] [...] Police investigate homophobia in Arab-language publication Saved by biosfear on Thu 25-12-2008 Race, Class, and Homophobia Saved by mikebhughes on Thu 18-12-2008 Gay Men’s Health Crisis Launches Public Service Campaign [...]

]]> Comment on A Few Election Reflections by Austen http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/a-few-election-reflections/#comment-91 Austen Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:27:16 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=272#comment-91 I've heard a lot of complaining about how the no on 8 people ran their campaign. One of the biggest complaints is that they failed frame the issue as a civil rights issue until very late in the game, which allowed the churches a head start into African-American and Latino communities framing it as a Biblical one. I’ve heard a lot of complaining about how the no on 8 people ran their campaign. One of the biggest complaints is that they failed frame the issue as a civil rights issue until very late in the game, which allowed the churches a head start into African-American and Latino communities framing it as a Biblical one.

]]> Comment on 2008 Electoral College Vote Predictions by A Few Election Reflections « Steven White http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/2008-electoral-college-vote-predictions/#comment-90 A Few Election Reflections « Steven White Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:57:57 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=268#comment-90 [...] My predictions actually weren’t wildly off-base, but I did receive a little lesson in humility when the [...] [...] My predictions actually weren’t wildly off-base, but I did receive a little lesson in humility when the [...]

]]> Comment on 2008 Electoral College Vote Predictions by mischadc http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/2008-electoral-college-vote-predictions/#comment-89 mischadc Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:03:44 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=268#comment-89 That's a hell of a landslide. I'd have to take off at least one from Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, or Georgia. Just seems like too much. (I'd say yes Virginia before I'd say yes Ohio.) That said, I hope you're right. And since VA polls close at 7, you may be able to stamp your bingo card and hit the victory bong by prime-time Eastern. That’s a hell of a landslide. I’d have to take off at least one from Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, or Georgia. Just seems like too much. (I’d say yes Virginia before I’d say yes Ohio.)

That said, I hope you’re right. And since VA polls close at 7, you may be able to stamp your bingo card and hit the victory bong by prime-time Eastern.

]]> Comment on Did I Read That Correctly? by small world after all « mireille + mischa http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/did-i-read-that-correctly/#comment-88 small world after all « mireille + mischa Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:25:07 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=250#comment-88 [...] Thursday, October 16, 2008 by popularheresy Why does Steven get all the good blogger beef? [...] [...] Thursday, October 16, 2008 by popularheresy Why does Steven get all the good blogger beef? [...]

]]> Comment on Did I Read That Correctly? by Will Wilkinson http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/did-i-read-that-correctly/#comment-87 Will Wilkinson Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:26:17 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=250#comment-87 "Is there a way I’m supposed to interpret that that isn’t, you know, racist?" Yes. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/07/the_social_cost.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/noble-abstentio.html “Is there a way I’m supposed to interpret that that isn’t, you know, racist?”

Yes.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/07/the_social_cost.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/noble-abstentio.html

]]> Comment on In Praise of “They” for the Singular Subject by Christopher http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/in-praise-of-they-for-the-singular-subject/#comment-85 Christopher Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:11:28 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=241#comment-85 The point of using "she" etc. as a general pronoun is, like the orthodox usage of the masculine pronouns, simply for cases in which the sex of the person referred to is unkown, or in which there is really no sex as no real person is referred to, but only an abstract hypothetical. To use "she" to refer to a hypothetical or unknown 19th C. U.S. Senator is as ridiculous as it would be for me to say "if a mother wishes to protect his children..." If we know the sex of the person we are referring to we use the appropriate pronoun, if we are sane. The use of feminine pronouns for abstract antecedents, or for those whose sex is unkown, is reasonable according to two systems. In one, we could simply alternate. I might say "The student who forgot his cell phone in the classroom may pick it up at the lost and found" now, and tomorrow in a similar situation say "her cell phone". Or, women could use the feminine pronouns exclusively while men continue to use masculine ones exclusively, just as we (and pre-1975 women) have always done. Again, only in cases where the antecedent is genuinely unknown. So the singular "they" is not needed to avoid the ridiculous. The problem seems to be that some people either genuinely cannot hear what is so awful about sentences such at the one with which Mr. Liberman began his quite relevant and interesting article: "If a tenant cannot pay their rent they..." Cannot hear, or pretend for political purposes to be unable to hear? Someone commenting on Mr. Liberman's article actually called it an elegant solution, but I cannot believe anyone actually finds it so. The point of using “she” etc. as a general pronoun is, like the orthodox usage of the masculine pronouns, simply for cases in which the sex of the person referred to is unkown, or in which there is really no sex as no real person is referred to, but only an abstract hypothetical. To use “she” to refer to a hypothetical or unknown 19th C. U.S. Senator is as ridiculous as it would be for me to say “if a mother wishes to protect his children…” If we know the sex of the person we are referring to we use the appropriate pronoun, if we are sane.

The use of feminine pronouns for abstract antecedents, or for those whose sex is unkown, is reasonable according to two systems. In one, we could simply alternate. I might say “The student who forgot his cell phone in the classroom may pick it up at the lost and found” now, and tomorrow in a similar situation say “her cell phone”. Or, women could use the feminine pronouns exclusively while men continue to use masculine ones exclusively, just as we (and pre-1975 women) have always done. Again, only in cases where the antecedent is genuinely unknown.

So the singular “they” is not needed to avoid the ridiculous. The problem seems to be that some people either genuinely cannot hear what is so awful about sentences such at the one with which Mr. Liberman began his quite relevant and interesting article: “If a tenant cannot pay their rent they…” Cannot hear, or pretend for political purposes to be unable to hear? Someone commenting on Mr. Liberman’s article actually called it an elegant solution, but I cannot believe anyone actually finds it so.

]]> Comment on For Those Considering a Political Science Ph.D. by Link List « mireille + mischa http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/for-those-considering-a-political-science-phd/#comment-84 Link List « mireille + mischa Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:31:14 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-84 [...] I had a conversation with Steven how grad school was treating him where admitted that he found all the math absolutely abhorrent and part of his wishes he had indeed become a starving poli-journo in [...] [...] I had a conversation with Steven how grad school was treating him where admitted that he found all the math absolutely abhorrent and part of his wishes he had indeed become a starving poli-journo in [...]

]]> Comment on Race and the Future of the GOP by The difficulty of breaking old habits « The United States of Jamerica http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/race-and-the-future-of-the-gop/#comment-80 The difficulty of breaking old habits « The United States of Jamerica Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:46:48 +0000 http://stevenwhite.wordpress.com/?p=228#comment-80 [...] a comment » Contra Matt Yglesias, Steven White thinks that it’s more likely that a post-McCain GOP will abandon the harsh anti-immigrant [...] [...] a comment » Contra Matt Yglesias, Steven White thinks that it’s more likely that a post-McCain GOP will abandon the harsh anti-immigrant [...]

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