Quite honestly, I usually like your reasoning on various topics, and unlike most I feel many things can be discussed analytically without necessarily constantly referring back to empirical evidence. I feel, like you probably, that numbers are often smoke and mirrors can in fact hide that we have no clue.
Quite honestly, I usually like your reasoning on various topics, and unlike most I feel many things can be discussed analytically without necessarily constantly referring back to empirical evidence. I feel, like you probably, that numbers are often smoke and mirrors can in fact hide that we have no clue.
Nevertheless, just like polls which are often incredibly inacurate and unreliable, they are still better tools than mere 'I said so'.
For this one I feel like some more data and sources would be much welcome. You make pretty significant claims about the influence of religion on immigrant communities in very direct terms, any data or sources for this? You say the anti-semitic violence come from this contingent rather than traditional far-right activists, any source or data that you are drawing on to make these claims?
Trying to understand the world in my mind necessarily implies doing so with others, which means at least some basis of shared reality and thus 'facts' - however much we may wish to critique these same facts or underline the importance of other 'facts'. Otherwise, it isn't so much 'trying to understand the world' that we are doing, but instead doing straightforward soft politics - which is fine of course, but it's not the same thing.
Quite honestly, I usually like your reasoning on various topics, and unlike most I feel many things can be discussed analytically without necessarily constantly referring back to empirical evidence. I feel, like you probably, that numbers are often smoke and mirrors can in fact hide that we have no clue.
Nevertheless, just like polls which are often incredibly inacurate and unreliable, they are still better tools than mere 'I said so'.
For this one I feel like some more data and sources would be much welcome. You make pretty significant claims about the influence of religion on immigrant communities in very direct terms, any data or sources for this? You say the anti-semitic violence come from this contingent rather than traditional far-right activists, any source or data that you are drawing on to make these claims?
Trying to understand the world in my mind necessarily implies doing so with others, which means at least some basis of shared reality and thus 'facts' - however much we may wish to critique these same facts or underline the importance of other 'facts'. Otherwise, it isn't so much 'trying to understand the world' that we are doing, but instead doing straightforward soft politics - which is fine of course, but it's not the same thing.