Re:Company town
by mikeash on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:50AM
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This is a casual internet discussion, not a scientific paper. It is actually acceptable to make a claim without providing citations or other evidence. If you don't believe the claim, either go look it up yourself, ask nicely if they have support, or present your counter-claims. Snidely ignoring the claims because they didn't include cites up front is not cool.
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I understand that. I wasn't looking for some long peer review process. But the post I was responding to was literally a catalog of just-so stories supported by the existence of a song, like responding to statistics about mistreatment of slaves with a paragraph about how it would be in a slaveowner's best interest to treat them well and here's a line in "Dixie" about happy slaves.