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Feb 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I've never claimed to be "neutral". I can lean left or right, depending on the issue. But the "average" of my views is in the center.

I attack the woke left — not liberalism — most because their ascending control of our institutions makes them far more dangerous than the right. Image
Anyone who has followed me for a while has seen me lose thousands of followers for criticizing militant antivaxxers, James Lindsay, assorted rightwing conspiracies, retarded rightwing Twitter accounts, Trump, and antiwoke echo chambers.
I've tweeted about this before. I wish people would read my Twitter bio. I only claim to monitor a very specific kind of bias: That against whites and Asians by our opinion-shaping institutions.
The fact is that the right is not just an underdog in our culture but has pretty much disappeared. It has almost zero traction in any of our most important cultural institutions. As a centrist seeking balance this is alarming.

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Feb 26
Just how bad is the bias in the media in favor of its own oppression narratives?

This chart quantifies some of it: Unarmed white victims of police violence get only a *tiny* fraction of the news coverage that black ones do — maybe about two to three percent as much.
The great majority of Americans, like this guy here, have no idea just how few unarmed people are fatally shot by police each year.

In 2019, the year before the riots, only 17 unarmed blacks were shot and killed by police. (More whites were killed.)

Given the fact that there are tens of millions of police encounters every year, and that most of the shootings of unarmed persons are found to be justified given the situation, the *overall* performance of police seems like a miracle of restraint and competence.
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Feb 24
This claim is absurd on its face.

"C" students "of color" are not "all" getting into Stanford and Berkeley.

To begin with, a "C" grad can barely handle community college coursework. Also, grade inflation ensures that there are tens of thousands of BIPOC "A" students in Cali.
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Feb 23
1/ Dilbert guy sees poll which shows only half of blacks agree that "it's OK to be white," and recommends that white people live as far away from blacks as possible, and says that race problems "cannot be fixed."

The first opinion is excessive, but the second one is correct.
2/ America's "race problem" cannot be fixed because there is no solution to it. Colorblind policies can't close outcome gaps, and approaches that force "equity" (through quotas etcetera) can only be implemented in an authoritarian environment which most Americans won't tolerate.
3/ Colorblindness hasn't worked because groups aren't equal in ability and talent across all traits and fields of endeavor. Group IQ distribution is the strongest predictor of group success in most meaningful outcomes, and these IQ distributions are hugely different.
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Feb 22
[THREAD]

1/ This is fascinating.

Women of which race/ethnicity are most likely overall to receive a response from a man (across all ethnicities) to a message they send on a dating app?

Answer: Middle Eastern women.

Almost 1/2 of men will respond to a Middle Eastern woman.
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(I believe these data are from OK Cupid.)
3/ The results below show how different ethnicities rate each other on attractiveness on OK Cupid.

Overall, women find white men to be the most attractive and Asian men the least attractive.

Men find Asian women to be the most attractive overall and black women the least.
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Feb 21
Highlights from the Ford Foundation listserv in 2021:

"Why should people with opposing viewpoints be listened to?"

"I reject these invocations of dialogue and understanding the other side."

"I do not agree with you. I encourage you to take on counseling."
"We must first agree that my facts are facts."

"Those who feel compelled to hear both sides is [sic] intellectually moribund."
The Ford Foundation endowment is now over $16 billion dollars.
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But Coca-Cola is demanding that 30% of all its outside billable hours be reserved for "diverse" attorneys.

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"If firms fail to meet their commitment over two quarterly reviews for new matters, their fees will be reduced by 30% for the matters going forward until the commitment is met. Firms that don’t meet the goals over time won’t be considered for new work."
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