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Other people's homework: healthcare and women
Using a simple search phrase:
disparity in health care for women
at that thing called Google
turns up these, in the top 1 2 3
Yet people who don't do basic homework, never mind read basic news which often obviates the need to do homework, pretend that other people do not make fact based arguments.
They usually screech some variation of "Cite!" as if someone, if not everyone, else needs to spoon feed them the reality that is the most common of memes.
When they don't spend their time imagining that cars have vaginas and carry the young of our species in their trunks.
That's politics. You're welcome.
disparity in health care for women
at that thing called Google
turns up these, in the top 1 2 3
Yet people who don't do basic homework, never mind read basic news which often obviates the need to do homework, pretend that other people do not make fact based arguments.
They usually screech some variation of "Cite!" as if someone, if not everyone, else needs to spoon feed them the reality that is the most common of memes.
When they don't spend their time imagining that cars have vaginas and carry the young of our species in their trunks.
That's politics. You're welcome.
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It is true that it's easy to use Google. But it is also true that when doing a blog, at least on TPM, citing a few sources is customary. The more obscure the topic, the more reason to cite a few sources. Doing this also lets the blogger pick out some really awesome examples that the common search wouldn't find right away.
When you write a blog, the onus is on the blogger to provide the best supported, best written piece that they can in the time that they do it. The blogger does her homework, in other words. This is also because not all readers have infinite amounts of time. Easier on the reader means more chance of getting the blogger's point across and avoiding confusion, reaching more people, and more of a chance that they will read the whole thing.
September 23, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gunter Grass said something along the lines of 'the duty of a citizen is to keep his mouth open'; along with that, I believe it is the citizen's duty to render herself informed about current issues.
Demonstrating a lack of knowledge about current issues, manifest as "you didn't make a (correct|reasoned|acceptable) argument", should never be viewed as acceptable; never mind anything like a rebuttal.
Stupidity should not be mislabeled.
It seems to me that if a person genuinely wanted real debate, they would rebut their putative opponent's argument with the exact thing they say their opponent's argument lacks. If the goal of debating is to win, then it seems to me such a response would be devastating and a genuine rebuttal.
September 23, 2009 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink