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> It's not the same as a layperson describing gravity in terms of some basic understanding of Newtonian physics and a physicist describing it in terms of genera
by shantanubala 14y ago
> It's not the same as a layperson describing gravity in terms of some basic understanding of Newtonian physics and a physicist describing it in terms of general relativity. It was just dumb.
You're mixing up what I said: a sociologist describing a social phenomenon is analogous to a physicist describing a physical phenomenon.
In the tweet, Adria colloquially used the word "racism" in a way that's different from colloquial usage (she used the sociologist's definition and not the Dictionary.com definition), but that doesn't make her stupid or a "loony bird."
Do a couple tweets, screwups, or overreactions deserve this kind of outrage?
- doktrin 14y ago> You're mixing up what I said: a sociologist describing a social phenomenon is analogous to a physicist describing a physical phenomenon. Sorry, no. All academic disciplines are not analogous and equivalent. The sociological re-casting of "racism" that we are referring to here is an opinion, and not even a majority one at that (among sociologists).