Re:For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time
by byrneseyeview on Thursday August 14, 2008 @11:03AM
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Okay, so because he made unspecified errors in a book he cowrote years ago, we should not believe what some other social scientists have researched. After all, Murray has cited them!
but calling her a socialist is typical political name-calling.
Apparently you don't 'know who Barbara Ehrenreich is':
http://www.dsausa.org/about/structure.html
She is a a member of the Democratic Socialist party. Her Wikipedia page mentions that she's a socialist before it mentions that she's a writer! Calling her a socialist is like calling Obama a Democrat -- a radical redefinition of name-calling, though it does please me that merely identifying someone as a member of a leftist party is considered grievously insulting.
Given The Bell Curve, none of his number-crunching statements are believable, without close scrutiny. I do know who Barbara Ehrenreich is, and I agree much more with her than with Murray, but calling her a socialist is typical political name-calling.
Edit: changed "right-wing" in the last sentence to "political" as being more accurate and less political.