Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

“If you think we are more sexist than before women could vote, you have pro­gres­sopho­bia… 18% of Harvard students are black [while 14% of Americans are]. Ac­knowl­edg­ing progress isn’t say­ing, ‘We’re done. Be­ing gloomier doesn’t mean you’re a bet­ter per­son”- Bill Maher

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1405863651786084356

“In 1958 only 4% of Amer­i­cans ap­proved of in­ter­ra­cial mar­riage. Now Gallup doesn’t even bother ask­ing. But the last time they did, in 2013, 87% ap­proved. An over­whelm­ing ma­jor­ity of Amer­i­cans now say they want to live in a mul­tira­cial neigh­bor­hood.”

“Since 2017, white stu­dents are not even a ma­jor­ity in our pub­lic col­leges. Em­ploy­ees of color make up 47% of Mi­crosoft, 50% of Tar­get, 55% of the Gap, as com­pa­nies be­come des­per­ate to look like their TV com­mer­cials.”

“The ‘Friends’ re­union looked weird be­cause if you sug­gested a show to­day about 6 straight and white people, the net­work would laugh you out of the room and then can­cel you on Twit­ter. And yet there is a re­cur­rent theme on the far left that things have never been worse.”

“Say­ing white power and priv­i­lege is at an all-time high is just ridicu­lous. Higher than a cen­tury ago, the year of the Tulsa race mas­sacre? Higher than when the KKK rode unchecked and Jim Crow un­chal­lenged?”

“Hav­ing a warped view of re­al­ity leads to poli­cies that are warped—blacks-only dorms and grad­u­a­tion cer­e­monies, a grow­ing be­lief in white­ness as a mal­ady and [that] white peo­ple are ir­re­deemable.”

Vast majority of enviro trends also going in right direction

- air pollutants declined 60-99%

- CO2 emissions in rich nations have declined for decades

- massive increase in protected nature areas

- decline in land used for meat

- nat disaster deaths declined 90+%

DATA:

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1333232992135774208