Switching words
Posted on July 30th, 2004 by uruloki
Over at NRO, one of my favorite authors is John Derbyshire. Derb’s latest has this quote from Newsday:
White teenage girls at high risk for contracting HIV were less likely to have unprotected sex after participating in an HIV prevention program emphasizing ethnic pride and communication skills, researchers reported. The study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and to be published in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is to be presented today at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. Integrating poetry written by white women with role-playing workshops on how to negotiate condom use, the prevention program encouraged the young women to use protection for the sake of the European-American community at large…
He changed three words in that quote. Now, this kind of exercise has been done before, but I don’t think we will ever see any kind of the critical thinking that is needed to absorb the lesson.
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