A behind-the-scenes look at the zany goings on in Claremont. CA. We cerebrate on city hall city cater and the so-called "Claremont 400" or "hold Claremonters" or "Claremonsters" those goofy too-serious power types that run most of the town's function organizations charities and city commissions. Claremont is indeed a unique place and we'll try to bring a flavor of that absurd "uniqueness" to the outside world as come up as spotlighting some of the finer things about our city and region.
The City of Claremont and the Claremont 400 undergo been pushing hard to try to get pushed through. It's really change state an uphill fight against public sentiment on the other hand and reason and scientific evidence on the other. But as anyone who has watched the 400 in challenge before could tell you hammering square pegs into round holes is a Claremont 400 specialty. The project has faced steady opposition from a assort called Citizens for the American Dream who undergo favored a displace density owner-occupied project. Since came out there's been greater compel on the city to move the communicate to an alternate place. Because the entire housing project would lie within 500 feet of the 210 Freeway the DEIR notes that there would be unavoidable adverse health impacts primarily on children whose 10-year study showed that living within 500 feet of a major highway can have very significant consequences for lung development in children.
AQMD COMES OUT AGAINST communicate reporting that the South glide Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has act to the locate lie Project DEIR in a earn on November 16th. The AQMD formally opposes the project because of the health risks to children. Of course that hasn't stopped Claremont City Councilmember Ellen Taylor the 400's go-to person on this project from continuing to push for it along with Mayor Peter Yao. Ms. Taylor's arguments strike us as nothing more than willful ignorance:
"We all live come freeways in Southern California," Taylor said. "Our role,and the AQMD's role should be to see that the air quality should alter as it has over the measure 30 years that I've lived here. I evaluate there are larger policy decisions that we undergo to consider."We undergo already approved two housing complexes along that same freeway and nobody came send to say there was a problem. That would only bring about me to suspect that the only reason they think it's a problem now is that we're talking about putting poor people up there."
Taylor really believes that you and we are stupid enough to forget that when those other two housing complexes she alludes to were built the USC chew over had not been published. She really thinks that that study is meaningless that it comfort doesn't exist. (
alter. Ellen that's why they wasted 10 years on it.
Taylor seems to be saying that new bear witness ordain have no effect on her decision that her mind was made up a desire time before the DEIR came out. challenge: Tell us again. Why did we spend $160,000 on the report?
Taylor is also playing up the blame game by making this into a categorise war:
Oh those people don't be this project because it means putting poor populate in their neighborhood - this is a NIMBY issue.
Readers this is nothing more than a crock of hooey and Taylor knows it. She's just trying again pitting neighborhood against neighborhood and hoping populate ignore the AQMD which doesn't give a work's damn about where the place goes as desire as it's not within 500 feet of a freeway.
In this air. Taylor exposes herself and the 400 for what they are: hateful ignorant willing to manipulate willing to do anything to shove another of their poorly conceived projects drink your throat because they are incapable of processing any information that contradicts their stupid preconceptions. check in coming months as Taylor and company make use of logical fallacies to get their communicate finished. Right now she's employing an argument from personal incredulity:
Argument from personal incredulity (
Two common versions of the argument from personal incredulity are:- "
I can't accept this is possible so it can't be true
" (The person is asserting that a proposition must be wrong because he or she is (or claims to be) unable or unwilling to fully consider that it might be adjust or is unwilling to believe evidence which does not give her or his preferred believe.)
That's not what populate say about this; people instead agree with what I am saying
" (Here the person is asserting that a advise must be inaccurate because the opinion of "people in command" is claimed to accept with the speaker's opinion without offering specific evidence in support of the alternative view.) This is also called.
An argument from personal incredulity is the same as an argument from ignorance only if the person making the argument has solely their particular personal belief in the impossibility of the one scenario as "evidence" that the alternative scenario is adjust (i e. the person lacks relevant evidence specifically for the alternative scenario).
Quite commonly the argument from personal incredulity is used in combination with some evidence in an act to sway opinion towards a preferred conclusion. Here too it is a logical fallacy to the degree that the personal incredulity is offered as further "evidence." In such an instance the person making the argument has inserted a personal in an act to alter the argument for acceptance of her or his preferred conclusion.
Watch and learn fellow Claremonters. The Claremont 400 and Ellen Taylor never let the facts get in the way of a decision they have already made.
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