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@Sean__Last
Feb 10 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This is confused. If by "racist" we mean having an unjustified racial bias, there are many studies showing liberals are generically racist in an anti-white direction. A similar level of evidence does not exist for conservatives. Granted, you might claim Trump and co are racist even if most conservatives are not. Supposing that is true for the sake of argument, only calling the right racist is still misleading and frames the issue in a confused way.

(In the present case this is relevant because lots of the attacks on Stancil are obviously motivated by anti white racism)Image

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Political bias has caused a clear decline in academia's quality. To reverse this, academics would have to do some smart and truth seeking things. For that to happen, we'd need to have more academics who are not dogmatic leftists. The right increasingly consisting of uneducated...
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Group differences in this are very obvious. Kids and teenagers are really sensation seeking. There's the typical black > white > asian pattern.

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The most obvious argument for censorship is that when people who are smarter, more educated, and spend more time thinking about politics, than the masses, say that a significant number of the masses are dangerously wrong about something our priors should favor elites being...
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