The claim that 'white supremacy' is entirely responsible for differences in social outcomes between white and black Americans is the whole of CRT.
Anything more is just grift, sophistry, and content padding.
... The more stubborn white-black differences prove, the more hysterically 'white supremacy' needs to be attacked, with some new horizon of insanity being opened. ...
... Equally stubborn differences in social outcomes between -- for instance -- Ashkenazi Jewish and gentile white Americans are apparently best left out of the 'conversation'. ...
... In this latter case the "So is it going to be HBD or Holocaust II?" looms a little too starkly.
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... Their prime directive, in his model, is to prevent any serious galactic infrastructure being built, using a coercive centralized government to enforce it. ...
... Looks like a weird artifact of the Fermi Paradox to me. Main function of intelligent life in the universe is to prevent anything appearing that looks like intelligent life in the universe.
"... my default assumption since the 1990s has been to begin by guessing that, for whatever trait is under consideration, genetics and the environment are about equal in influence." takimag.com/article/twins-… ...
... My default is far more contrarian. Official dogma would require far less hysterical policing if it wasn't in approximate direct opposition to reality.
... Taking eye color as a model trait helps.
Nature or nurture -- which has the greatest influence on you not being a fruit bat?
... "Corporations are woke, meaning left wing on social issues relative to the general population, because institutions are woke. So the question becomes why are institutions woke?"
... "... how bad people want something to happen ..." is a nice Gnon-slip.
"Tessica Brown hired an attorney and is weighing litigation against Gorilla Glue, because while the product’s label warns against using on eyes, skin or clothing – it does not mention hair ..." nypost.com/2021/02/08/wom…
... Apologies for sharing this, but I had to know what "Gorilla Glue Hair Horror" was, so then you had to.
... The disparate impact of commercially available functional adhesives is an under-reported social crisis.
The foundational principle of Macro since its inception is that no deflationary currency should be permitted to exist.
Oops. ...
... Economics is going to be the professional discipline with the greatest anger management issues over the next few years. Krugman is the avatar of this. ...
... They'll recommend Bitcoin being crushed by government action, which would convert it from a comparatively docile exit option into a planetary war of secession. ...