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Old 02-28-2020, 10:57 AM   #451 (permalink)
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Old 02-28-2020, 02:10 PM   #452 (permalink)
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Prager University, eh? Would my professors allow me to cite Wikipedia if they started calling themselves Wiki University?

Prager makes wonderful videos that are completely one-sided, but issues are rarely that cut and dry. The problem is that they come across as calm and rational while everyone that I have seen that argues against them rants and insults them. I quickly lose interest and turn my attention to something else.

I am left with only Prager's side.

Doesn't MPGe fall as the battery capacity reduces? Don't you need just as much electricity to charge it while your range shrinks?
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Old 02-28-2020, 02:22 PM   #453 (permalink)
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Insult is what proceeds when rationality has been conceded to the other side. I don't agree with all Prager viewpoints, but they are generally well thought out and logically presented. I'd be curious to hear what specifically people take exception to AND where they find fault with the logic.

Anyhow, Prager videos are not 1-sides, quite the contrary. He's got videos presented by distinguished people of all political views. Bjorn is hardly a "right-wing conservative". Prager himself doesn't espouse a political agenda, rather he presents his position on individual problems, similar to my way of approaching things.

Traditional universities are more church-like than university-like in any subject other than the sciences. Heck, even the quasi-sciences are church-like. I had a sociology teacher say we would be skipping the "culture of poverty" section of the book because it "wasn't science". That idea didn't fit the religion there, so we pretend it doesn't exist.
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One of the top comments of the video that you linked was about cherry-picking and sins of omission, but I did not really care.

"Almost every politician can find something good to say about [charter schools]"--Mitt Romney.

Don't like him?

You can probably find a politician that you like promoting them. John Oliver showed clips from W., President Obama, Turnip, Sanders, and others.

That is a pretty wide range.


I do not know why YouTube showed this result for "Prager Charter. I could not find any mention of Prager in the transcript, but hey, John Oliver is entertaining.

What is the actual topic of this thread again?

Oh hey! John made a joke! Haha!

He talked about all of the charter schools closing. Anyway...

Nevermind. He criticized Papa John's.

I was trying to find someone criticizing this video:
Just to show that charter schools require public schools to be better, they depict school buses racing.

As a former school bus driver, racing school buses is pointless and boring, but still not an idea that you want to promote.

Found it! I do not have any idea who pointed this out, but someone made dozens of criticisms of Prager, and the only one that I remember is of this video:
At 2:52 it shows a rich black family and a poor white family, but that generally isn't how it works out and they gave some statistic about how disproportionately white charter students are.

It turns out that there are many charter schools that almost exclusively have minorities.

Anyway...

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Proportion of white vs black in any statistic is the most boring and distracting subject. The black or white skin didn't cause the outcomes.

As I've said elsewhere, 2-parent families predict avoidance of negative outcomes more than anything else. Single parent white families have children that succumb to problems just like single parent black families.

Anyhow, pointing out the color of cartoons suggests the person noticing and commenting is racist.

Finally, there are all black colleges and many other organizations, and very few white only. That's racist (and I'm in principle fine with people organizing themselves however they see fit).
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Imagine divorce courts where the judges say "You don't like each other? Fine, but this last couple broke up for the same reason. Congratulations, you just traded in your spouse sight-unseen."
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Exactly, which is fine (even if not preferable in all cases). Why would I want to force the hand of someone else to be included into a group that doesn't want me, or isn't designed to address my interests? It's perfectly reasonable the Girl Scouts want to exclude me.

...somehow this reminded me of a brief period in time in which I had a dim view of anyone with low enough standards to date me. Obviously I couldn't associate with anyone with such a poor judge of character.

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