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24 Dec
A point that's rarely made is that the OBJECTIVE risk of COVID today - given vaccination (or natural immunity) and a basic variant like Omicron - would be below that of flu in a normal flu year, at least as re death and probably hospitalization.
(2) This is basically just a mathematical note: the risk of COVID (350K lost pre-vaccine in a bad year) was always pegged at 5x that of flu. The vaccines reduce risk of most-serious-outcomes by 80-90%.

The analysis is straight-up 5/5-10 = (X)?
*I meant to say "apparently mild." Not sure where "basic" came from.
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10 Nov
It's remarkable how semantic many major arguments are. When left- debaters say "critical race theory does not exist" in high schools or ed schools, they are NOT denying that Zinn/1619/etc curricula are common - they are making the technical claim that crit. pedagogy is not CRT.
(2) Examples of this abound. I, too, would think that "racism is the biggest current problem for Black people," if I accepted the definition of 'racism' as being "any system within which Black people perform badly, for literally any reason."

But, I don't. #word_games_matter
(3) I'm not going to respond to every comment - writing book - but two quick notes:

(a) my response to intentional semantic confusion is the old good-faith "define your terms" technique. This is what I mean by or "ethno-Marxism" or "critical theory." city-journal.org/what-is-critic…
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3 Nov
This stuff is just low-IQ gibberish, and people should stop trying to analyze which normal day-to-day actions are "white supremacy" and which are not.

None are. Words mean things.
(2) It's actually worth breaking down the "logical" framework behind the claim that everything is WS.

Essentially, the idea here is that any large gap between groups must be due to either (a) racism, however subtle/hidden or (b) probably-genetic "inferiority (Kendi 2019)."
(3) If you accept this thesis (and reject all hereditarian claims), the "logical" next step must be: "Any system which produces performance gaps between groups is thus racist/WS, and any person who DENIES this is also is racist, because they are supporting hereditarianism."
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1 Nov
This is pathetically corny. My primary weakness, to the extent someone as great as me can have any, is arrogance.

When people can't rebut anything you say, they engage in - frankly stupid - performativity like this.
(2) What's especially funny about this is that what dude's unironically re-tweeting is my half-joking argument that no left-winger can logically - WITHOUT ad hominems - that Ben Shapiro is not smarter than "thinkers" like Kendi. #keep_the_SAT
**prove that**
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31 Oct
White applicants "think" this because there is a 150-300 Black-over-Asian affirmative action advantage at nearly every selective college.

When actual facts become taboo, goofy "God HID them dinosaur bones there!!!" word games ensue.
(2) You can take issue with my takes and jokes, but the numbers are ~always on point - these (attached) are some representative affirmative action edges, from recent studies and lawsuits.
(3) Worth noting: none of this has anything to do with the question of whether a 200pt SAT advantage is needed to "compensate for racism."

The point is that one EXISTS, and every single urban Caucasian kid knows this.
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29 Oct
Worth noting: the label of Wokism/CRT isn't broad and meaningless - equivalent to "supports the civil rights laws," or "has a bisexual girlfriend."

These definable terms refer specifically to belief in particular post-Critical theories, which all share certain characteristics.
(2) The first True Crit characteristic is the belief that (per Delgado) racism/bias is "everyday," "everywhere."

Facially neutral systems like crim justice and SAT testing do not exist to help us lock up rapists or let smart kids into college. They exist to oppress Black people.
(3) The second big claim here is the idea that all disparities in group performance BY EXISTING prove discrimination (Sowell 2018; Kendi 2019).

According to the man IK, the only possible explanations for something like an SAT gap are "racism" and probably-genetic "inferiority."
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