I am, as promised, RT-ing people's favorite pieces of my writing. This ALREADY CLASSIC article, suggested by @findingvinay, takes a look at what I like about whites (modern civilization), Blacks (humanity, tho), Asians, and everyone else historically...spiked-online.com/2021/07/01/wes…
(2) Another one, suggested by my Cut the Bull partner @CDouglasLove3, and one of my favorite pieces. I take an empirical look at whether "mediocre white men" actually ARE held to a lower standard than woke women of color...theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-lon…
(3) This piece, preferred by @Jivvvvvvvvv (one of the more entertaining debaters on the page in recent days) makes the point that pulling back police stops and giving cops less money increases crime.
(4) This may be my favorite article of all time (so far) - a cover story for @Commentary just factually breaking down the pros and cons of race relations in the 2021 USA.
(5) #Anotha_One, from @Michaelstm23. Edgy title, but I stand by it: this is an empirical breakdown of what happens to "systemic racism" claims at least re income when you...err...adjust for stuff other than race in one model. spiked-online.com/2021/02/10/sys…
Last one: this - suggested by 2-3 people - is my critique of credentialism, an inspiration for the "Thuh Science" tweet the other day.
Three questions re ANY argument are: how (1) logical, (2) intelligent, and (3) biased does this person seem to be? quillette.com/2021/04/04/fac…
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An interesting phenomenon today is that there exists a whole genre of plain truths which everyone - across all races, etc - would agree to in a barbershop, on a basketball court, or on a golf course...but which almost cannot be mentioned in "polite" discourse.
(2) I'll name one for every 50 likes.
(3) While police brutality is Very Bad, something like the 90% majority of people shot by cops are violent repeat felons, usually struggling with the officer.
The Janester was interested enough in the origins of the term "demisexual" to research yesterday. As far as anyone can tell, it was coined by a teen in a role-playing forum, describing themself or a fictional character as neither "slutty" nor chaste.
(2) Pressure from online communities resulted in the adoption of the term by WebMD, etc. Now, there are multiple citable papers/chapters discussing the rise of the term, and debating what it means + whether this is a real identity (i.e. "Demisexuality as a Contested Sexuality").
(3) The majority of Woke Science is of this kind. Robin D'Angelo makes a statement in a popular book. This author/idea are then cited in the qualitative Conclusions section of a Sociology paper.
"Scientific evidence" of "white fragility" now exists. Why do you hate science?
As a methods prof, a lot of the social science done or cited - especially by journalists - to "prove" contemporary Wokish talking points seems almost intentionally badly done.
(2) An example would be the claim single parents do as well as married couples at raising kids, IF YOU ADJUST FOR INCOME. Maybe. But, 2 people make more $$$ than 1, and men out-earn women. You'd have to make ~220% what the mean single mom does to be as stable as the mean couple.
(3) On a different note, 3+ complex "Bayesian" analyses of police shootings look at B:W risks of getting shot by cops, and find ratios of 2-3:1. However, none adjust for the B:W difference in victim-reported crime rate, which is 2.4:1, and totally explains the gap.
The most basic thing we can do to help the poor is provide them the services we do everyone else. The hood is UNDER, not over-policed, and should have officers to match and BREAK the crime rate. Poor kids need schools with smart teachers, or vouchers to leave.
(3) I also don't mind - although a few hurrrd-right wing haters nationally do - state services targeted specifically at POOR (as vs, say, "bisexual bi-POC") people. Enterprise zones, CLASS-based affirmative action, IQ-boosting programs like ABCdarian, etc. all can do good work.
There were four major college-campus hate crime hoaxes basically last week.
"Prove it!!!"
Ok. While, more specifically, it's the TRIAL here that's happening now, the dorm fire - like, probably, most of the other hate incidents at - Vitterboro U was a hoax. thecollegefix.com/black-student-…
(3) The "noose" reported at Central Connecticut State U on Memorial Day, and discussed for days, turned out to be a crane cable...literally ON a construction site. fox61.com/article/news/l…
Illegal immigrants should, as a general rule, be deported.
(2) There are a few exceptions, i.e. real asylum claims, but the intentional conflation of invited immigrants with un-invited immigrants banned by law ("A path for EVERYONE!!!") is yet another thing that would have been utterly remarkable to ~everyone until very recently.
(3) No hate for hard-working foreign citizens who technically aren't supposed to be here. I'm an aggro-nuff person, and would 100% sneak into a richer state if I were (say) a journeyman carpenter.
But, I wouldn't expect THEIR COPS to support me in this amoral personal mission.