One female cop even says this isn't an assault. Watch the video, and if you aren't pissed off...well, just watch the video at the above linked blog.
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Photos of the woman and the Blacks.
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FORMER BANK OF ISRAEL HEAD AND DUAL-CITIZEN TAKES FED POST
Will he push American or Israeli interests?
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THE FALLACY OF FALSE CAUSE
Yesterday, we ran a short piece that included this statement from the police chief of Detroit:
In those few lines, the chief committed several logical fallacies, but the two most egregious ones--under which additional ones may be subsumed-- are that he made a Hasty Generalization when he used too few examples to then posit a general rule. And he also committed the fallacy of Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, or False Cause, and it is this latter fallacy that we so often encounter when we deal with humans and human problems, internationally, nationally and right here in Costa Mesa.
This False Cause fallacy pops up all the time when people want to be PC regarding race/ethnicity.
For example, some people say things such as: "Costa Mesa schools are bad." They then go on to blame the teachers or the principals or the school district administration because the schools are "bad."
Now, what do they mean when they say the schools are bad? Poke them a little and they may reluctantly tell you that the schools have lower scores than schools, say in Newport Beach or Huntington Beach. But, of course, they are still equivocating and trying to not give a good answer.
Poke them some more and a little harder and they may refine this a bit to say, "Well, the students are scoring low on standardized tests." But, then they'll usually give you the false cause fallacy again to explain why, in their opinion, students in Costa Mesa on average score lower, as they once again blame the teachers or the principals or the school district administration.
Folks, Costa Mesa schools have the same quality teachers, principals, and school district administrators as Newport Beach and Huntington Beach. They are not the problem. Thinking so is to engage in the fallacy of false cause.
The reason that students, on average, in Costa Mesa score lower on standardized tests is because of the demographics of the students. And, this reflects on the demographics of the City as a whole.
To improve Costa Mesa school scores, the demographics of Costa Mesa, as a city, need to be improved. And, how does a City do that? It attracts upwardly mobile people, not downwardly mobile people.
Do a simple mind experiment: What do you think would happen to school scores in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa if we did nothing else but transfer all Costa Mesa students to Newport Beach schools and all Newport Beach students to Costa Mesa schools? You know the answer: Newport Beach schools would be bad and Costa Mesa schools would be good.
But this rooting out of fallacies in thinking and especially, as we did here, regarding the fallacy of False Cause, needs to be done in all areas where we deal with human beings and human problems.
The truth is not always PC, but it remains the truth, and if we, as individuals, are to live happy, productive, and peaceful lives as we alone determine these things, then we have to start facing the truth that not all humans are the same, and not all distinct peoples are the same as other distinct peoples and that different groups of humans have different abilities and liabilities that are genetically determined.
It is no different with other species. Plow horses are great for plowing and can't be matched in this by race horses, and race horses are great at running and can't be matched in this by plow horses.
Genes are us. Look to them first, fearlessly, when you consider human differences that show up statistically.
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