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Cooking posts coming, I promise. But for now, some race posts!

I have two more cooking posts backlogged... I'll write them soon. Honest.

But while you're waiting, if anyone is interested in the debate about blaming black people for proposition 8, I have two posts on it at Uncommon Priors, arguing basically that even if there's a relationship between blackness and voting for proposition 8, the correct causal attribution is to the oppression that black people have suffered. 1. Correlation is not causation, OR: there are no racial essences, for fuck?s sake. A political fable. 2. Fallacies of racial causation.

I think this is a really important discussion, and I'm trying to spread it all over the internet. It's time to put a stop to the unreflective assertion that prop. 8 is the fault of black folks.

There's also a discussion of this going on in my facebook -- anyone may feel free to search for me (there aren't many Paul Gowders on facebook), friend me, and then participate in that locus of discussion.

Full post as published by Law and Letters on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).