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To: LindyBill who wrote (213687)	7/28/2007 10:30:01 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793914

Most people think like you. If you ignore it, maybe it's not happening. Can't bring yourself to inspect her data or her conclusions, can you. For example, did you notice that the blonde's hand was raised high and the Muslim girl's hand looked tentative, yet mindless Marisol called the Muslim girl more confident. The Muslim girl raised her hand the way I used to when I really wanted the teacher to call on someone else. Maybe IT is, indeed, happening, as you and Marisol claim, but to claim that picture as evidence of it is ridiculous. The most she can reasonably claim as motive for that picture was an attempt to make the Muslim student look "normal." To take the leap from normal to superior is evidence of a major cognitive malfunction. If Marisol wants to prove her point, she needs first to quit baldly distorting her alleged evidence. This approach that anyone who makes a point that supports your opinion must have done excellent work is a strange one and the notion that anyone who objects to the quality of that work must be a "liberal" or "gullible" is even stranger. It seems to me that it's in the best interest of advocates to weed out the exaggerations on their side of the argument, not look dopey supporting them. That's what's killing the global warming crowd, their latching on to the greatest overstatements as though they were truth. Credibility killer.