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Colin Wright

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4 Dec

1/ 🚨 THREAT LETTER sent by attorney last month to a public school Superintendent. Mother and son objected to the content of a mandatory "Sociology of Change" class that teaches only white people can be racist and created a "hostile and divisive educational environment."

2/ The class required "reciting and affirming a predetermined and politically loaded worldviews" and "served no apparent purpose beyond ideological thought reform."

Actual class material:

3/ Students were required to to "publicly profess their sexual, racial, and religious identities so that the teacher and others can scrutinize, interrogate and label those identities in a derogatory manner." Claims classes were "compelled speech" and "psychologically abusive."

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

4 Dec

1/ 🚨 LAWSUIT: A CA junior high school made their Hispanic students (no whites or teachers allowed) attend a program called "Talking in Class" that traumatized them by making them yell out names and slurs they've been called in the past.

2/ The people running the program were "not trained teaching professionals."

Other programs asked white people whether they had been accused of racism, and weren't allowed to give context because that would be "racist" and "a form of 'collusion' against people of color."

3/ A teacher complained that the programs appeared to be "creating more division and more discrimination amongst people of various backgrounds."

Program facilitators told the teacher she "needed to come to terms with [her] 'whiteness'" and was advised to attend more programs.

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

27 Nov

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1/ @UChicago Prof. Dorian Abbot is currently being targeted by student activists for questioning his department's DEI policies. They claim his opinions "threaten the safety and belonging of all underrepresented groups" and are "an aggressive act." They issued 11 absurd demands.

2/ Many of these demands would result in the humiliation and social ostracization of Prof Abbot. They demand stripping him of titles, courses, and privileges. Also want the department to publicly denounce him and require DEI statements on all future department job applications.

3/ This is an ideological witch hunt. I've censored student names on the document (to protect their individual rights to free expression), but look how nearly every student prominently displays their pronouns.

Not a lot of ideological diversity on display here.

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

22 Nov

Activists want to retract AlShebli's paper finding a female protégé's research had less impact under female vs male mentors, citing methodological flaws.

Where are the calls to retract her paper using the same methods finding that ethnic diversity improved research impact? 🤔

This depends on where the claims of methodological errors arise. Perhaps they approved of the way ethnicity relationships were defined, but not how mentorship was defined in the other paper. But the authors properly qualified their definitions on the mentorship paper.

Though this article suggests people are claiming to have problems with both how they defined mentorship and how they quantified scientific impact. Though they also think the paper is flawed because it didn't consider non-binary mentors... 🤦‍♂️ sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/a…

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

21 Nov

1/ I learned a lot more from my experiments that "failed" than from the ones that went according to plan. Failed methods followed by troubleshooting and retesting makes you understand your system much more intimately, and often leads to insight and new lines of research.

2/ In fact, I came up with the idea for my PhD dissertation after a "failed" field experiment where ants destroyed spider colonies within hours that my colleagues spent weeks setting up. And my own subsequent methodological failures led to great insight.escholarship.org/uc/item/4pm302…

3/ And the first time I tried studying paper wasps in the field I attempted to place queens in nest boxes and planned to follow colony growth and reproductive output over the season. The second I opened their nest boxes, EVERY SINGLE QUEEN flew away and never came back. 😐

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

5 Nov

1/ I don't understand the claim that this election will cause introspection among the woke regarding their ideology. They're incapable of viewing problems from a POV outside their ideological framework. In their minds all outcomes are are perfectly consonant with their ideology.

2/ Their ideology has never aligned with reality, and that has never stopped them from doubling and tripling down. It is beyond falsification *by design*. It is not a correspondence theory of truth. It only pretends to be one when some bit of data happens to lean in its favor.

3/ It is fundamentally about power, not truth. It doesn't matter one bit whether *we* view certain outcomes as falsifying woke narratives. We can only hope that those who haven't already succumbed to the ideology will be inoculated against it.

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