# New York Times hires unapologetic racist writer

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 4, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086 "2018-08-04T10:58:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-times-hires-unapologetic-racist-writer/819086/754 "2018-08-31T05:32:16Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> EE, you did not understand it correctly (or, much more likely, you were trying to pull a rhetorical “fast one”). …  
> No, it is not my claim; furthermore, I don’t believe you can find anything I did say that can reasonably be paraphrased (“restated”) this way.

Actually, it is your claim. You don’t realize it’s your claim because you don’t actually understand what you’re saying. (Because you’re stupid)

I’m going to explain your own claim to you, in small words. Stop me where you get lost:

STATEMENT 1: Black schoolchildren get more funding on average than white schoolchildren  
STATEMENT 2: Excluding Special Ed funding, black schoolchildren get less funding than white schoolchildren  
STATEMENT 3: STATEMENT 1 and STATEMENT 2 can both be true because a higher percentage of black schoolchildren receive Special Ed funding

Do you not realize that, mathematically speaking, this must mean that non-special-ed black schoolchildren must receive less per capita funding than non-special-ed white schoolchildren? And that special ed black schoolchildren must receive less per capita funding than special ed white schoolchildren?

Or, to put it another way:

> [@Interesting podcast conversation between Sam Harris and Charles Murray (of "Bell Curve" fame)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-podcast-conversation-between-sam-harris-and-charles-murray-of-bell-curve-fame/785052/1188):
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> So your claim is that regular black schoolchildren receive less funding than regular white schoolchildren, and special education black schoolchildren receive less funding than special education white schoolchildren, but that there are enough special education black schoolchildren to make overall spend higher for black schoolchildren, even though they’re being discriminated against on a like-to-like basis?

> [@](#):
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> One of my greatest weaknesses is an inability to simply let it go when someone is [“wrong on the Internet”](https://xkcd.com/386/). :smack:

Have you tried not being wrong?

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