Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread md7148
>MD writes: >>in the first place, everybody can see that the "funding" sources of the >>report prepared by the Justice Department are highly problematic. They are >>typical liberal type foundations such as Ford and Soros. As the NY Times >>article suggests "An unusual feature of the report is

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread Jim Devine
MD writes: >in the first place, everybody can see that the "funding" sources of the >report prepared by the Justice Department are highly problematic. They are >typical liberal type foundations such as Ford and Soros. As the NY Times >article suggests "An unusual feature of the report is that i

Re: Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: >Hey! Shuger is not a neo-liberal. I'm a neo-liberal. I thought you were a social democrat. You mean there's no difference these days? Doug

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread md7148
Yes, Brad! and Shuger subscribes to "sub-cultural experience thesis"-- the thesis that relates racial inequalities to "cultural preferences" ie., I am an African American and I disbenefit from the system because I culturally "prefer" to do so, not because the system is racially biased. against me

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread Brad De Long
>Jim Devine: > >> the author, Scott Shuger, was simply asking questions about these issues. I >> was hoping for answers to these questions rather than name-calling based on >> a partial reading. > first, let me decompose the neo-liberal journalist Mr.Shuger's Hey! Shuger is not a neo-liberal.