@a_centrism Being raised in a society in which epistemological integrity was accepted as among the highest values, it can be hard to accept that was just a phase, now gone.
@a_centrism ... Within the last half-century of Western history, epistemological integrity has passed from an admirable virtue, to a tolerated irrelevance, and finally to a crime.
@a_centrism ... This is what universities have done.
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'. ...
... 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?