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Iftheshoefits on May 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Test for School Reform in Newark

Yes, and "incapable" isn't anything I suggested applied to "young, energetic" types. That was an equivalence you drew while your knee was jerking.

Karunamon on May 13, 2014 [–]

No, you merely suggested it applied to "privileged" white males.

Iftheshoefits on May 14, 2014 | [–]

I did no such thing. I wrote, quite explicitly, that they haven't the empirical foundation; not that they aren't capable of obtaining it.

Karunamon on May 14, 2014 | | [–]

And even that is an unsupported assertion.

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