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𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛 Alvin Grissom II Profile picture
𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛 Alvin Grissom II
@AlvinGrissomII
Asst Prof of Computer Science/computational linguist in #NLProc, #ML. Occasionally post my music. Views mine alone. alvingrissomii@sigmoid.social
Mar 12, 2018 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
1/ I went down the surreal rabbit hole of Steven Pinker's tweets on race. I noticed some things.

2/I was struck by the fact that "race doesn't exist" is a "PC 1/4-truth," but examining police violence against black people is a "[distraction]." So, race is only useful when showing how different we supposedly are, but not how differently we're treated