http://mcgees.org/2006/03/04/blank-slate/ Website of Joshua McGee Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mcgees.org/2006/03/04/blank-slate/comment-page-1/#comment-75216 mcgees.org » Blog Archive » But is it “politically correct” to offend everyone equally? Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:14:22 +0000 http://mcgees.org/wordpress/?p=656#comment-75216 [...] Are some of his theories speculations correct?  Maybe.  It is almost certain that some things labelled “political correctness” at some times and in some places are inconsistent with some facts of evolutionary development.  Well, duh.  But it’s not binary, and it’s not monolithic.  Why is he willing to make such a facile statement as “human nature is simply not politically correct”?  Not quite sure — but one can be certain that this willingness to dichotomize and falsely generalize characterizes his entire approach to the subject matter.  And I must note that Steven Pinker, who has different horses in the race, has quote-reasoned-unquote his way to opposite conclusions, such as that the validity of political conservatism over political liberalism is confirmed by the observation that artificial intelligence software with distributed rather than top-down organization function better I did not make that up). [...] [...] Are some of his theories speculations correct?  Maybe.  It is almost certain that some things labelled “political correctness” at some times and in some places are inconsistent with some facts of evolutionary development.  Well, duh.  But it’s not binary, and it’s not monolithic.  Why is he willing to make such a facile statement as “human nature is simply not politically correct”?  Not quite sure — but one can be certain that this willingness to dichotomize and falsely generalize characterizes his entire approach to the subject matter.  And I must note that Steven Pinker, who has different horses in the race, has quote-reasoned-unquote his way to opposite conclusions, such as that the validity of political conservatism over political liberalism is confirmed by the observation that artificial intelligence software with distributed rather than top-down organization function better I did not make that up). [...]

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