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ciroccojChrist, I just stumbled onto The Heritage Foundation site in my research for our EnvLaw activity for tomorrow.
Never again. Never ever again. I want to read sane, rational, well-defended arguments against what I hold true, because they make me think, make me question my assumptions, help me hone my arguments and occasionally convince me I'm dead wrong. But this... holy *&^%, I can't stomach this. One issue after another after another steeped in reverence for the status quo and doubletalk and misrepresentation and flawed logic, all very prettily expressed.
The final straw for me (not the worst comment at all, just the one that finally made me hit my Back button and delete the bookmark I'd made for myself) was this:
Critics argue that unmarried fathers earn too little to support families. The facts show otherwise: If poor single mothers married the fathers of their children, nearly three fourths would be lifted out of poverty immediately.
This in an article on child poverty in the US.
Yeah, that'll fix everything. Let's please not consider abuse or abandonement or rape or raising kids in a home where the parents hate each other or oh never mind.
Never again. Never ever again. I want to read sane, rational, well-defended arguments against what I hold true, because they make me think, make me question my assumptions, help me hone my arguments and occasionally convince me I'm dead wrong. But this... holy *&^%, I can't stomach this. One issue after another after another steeped in reverence for the status quo and doubletalk and misrepresentation and flawed logic, all very prettily expressed.
The final straw for me (not the worst comment at all, just the one that finally made me hit my Back button and delete the bookmark I'd made for myself) was this:
Critics argue that unmarried fathers earn too little to support families. The facts show otherwise: If poor single mothers married the fathers of their children, nearly three fourths would be lifted out of poverty immediately.
This in an article on child poverty in the US.
Yeah, that'll fix everything. Let's please not consider abuse or abandonement or rape or raising kids in a home where the parents hate each other or oh never mind.
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Date: 2004-10-20 04:51 am (UTC)I need to look at that website. I'm collecting crapass arguments.