Interesting Links for 12-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• The King of Human Error - a fascinating piece on the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who showed how irrational people are.
  (tags: psychology danielkahneman mistakes )
• Children should not be forced to eat everything on their plate. Dessert should never be used as a reward.
  (tags: food children )
• More on the new sandboxing for the Mac Application Store
  (tags: apple computers mac )
• EMI being split up and sold off. We're down to three major labels.
  (tags: music business )
• Screaming the carrier tone - a talent only useful during a tiny fraction of history.
  (tags: modem phone computers )
• Climate change scepticism is a largely Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.
  (tags: language culture climatechange global_warming )
• LiveJournal under DDOS again
  (tags: livejournal ddos internet )
• R.I.P. "Marvelman" Creator Mick Anglo
  (tags: marvelman obituary )
• Outrage as French magazine bombed by Warhammer enthusiasts
  (tags: funny warhammer religion satire islam )

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

In this context, 'Anglo-Saxon' is a term used in continental Europe to refer to the economic system typified by the United States and the United Kingdom

Interesting concept, but it would hold more water and be more likely to provide an explanation if Gwendally wasn't from Massachusetts and didn't regularly expose the fact that she's barely aware that non-US countries have differences.

And if she didn't regularly say the most astoundingly fuckwitted racist things - and then didn't, regularly, defend them by claiming she didn't know what any of the words meant.

for all I know he/she might be a Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard or a Nazi war criminal in hiding.

Nope. Just a white American with a profound fear of the other, a crippling lack of curiousity, and a severe overestimation of her own education and intelligence.

But I see no evidence of racism in front of me

Someone with a long history of making racist statements said "only white people do critical thinking. Intellectual rigour is why white people are better."

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Oh no, she said only a specific type of white people. Totally different. ;)

More seriously, philmophlegm's saying that they don't see any evidence of racism in front of them. If they opened up the article long enough to read the Guardian byline--thereby providing a context for the term which caused them to assume it referred to the UK/USA--and then the only thing they saw was gwendally's two comments, I could see how they both failed to perceive racism in her comments and didn't see enough to bother to call her on the creative rewording WRT "climate scepticism"/"scepticism".