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Apr 22 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Because women, but specifically young women, moved way to the left in many countries in the 2010s, it seems plausible that social media is a big explanatory factor. And it seems plausible that the thing women find on social media that moves them to the left is the posts of men... Image ...who obviously hate women and who are conservative, or at least anti-left. My guess is this is not true of most conservative men, but it is true of some of them and they, like many anti-social groups, like to be loud on the internet. Probably, they were on the right before...
Mar 28 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This is a good example of how, in live debates, how people look, move, and speak, causes in people a perception of winning and losing that is fairly independent of the arguments being made.

Consider the first thing they go back and forth on, Peterson's claim that... "It didn't do anything to transmission". Destiny points out that this is false because it reduced the rates of transmission. Peterson then seemingly completely abandons his original claim, that vaccine's don't influence transmission, and moves to the claim that the government...
Aug 6, 2023 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
Hanania has explained his change in views. In this thread I will, because people were asking about this and it is probably an unusual frame, self indulgently use comparisons between this and my own reasons for changing the racial views I held back then to argue this... ... implies some negative things about Hanania. First, three examples of my own changes.

In my late teens I saw Putnam's work showing that ethnic diversity predicts less social cohesion and I overestimated this effect, and didn't understand that economic variables are even...
Aug 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It's surprising to me that anyone would be surprised if men didn't want to have sex as much with women while they were pregnant. Evolutionarily, there's no point. Many responding to this thread recommend lying to your wife if this is the case. This reminds me of the norms... ... encouraging men to lie to their wives about how attractive they are as they get older. I've spoken to some women about this, and seen others talk about it, and many express that they would feel a sense of worthlessness knowing that their husband didn't think they were hot...
Jul 28, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
We don't consistently transfer resources from the ancestors of victims to the ancestors of whoever victimized them so this whole line of reasoning is special pleading.

Furthermore, black people today aren't significantly harmed by these historical incidents.

Wrt red... ...lining, the worst marked neighborhoods on the maps redlining was based on were 15% black and 85% white. Black people were rare in neighborhoods marked as safe to give loans in, but the relationship between neighborhood racial composition and loan rating was extremely weak... Image
Mar 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It is true that since the 1970s the right has made progress on issues relating to abortion, school, and guns. But these represent the partial regaining of ground lost in the 1950s-1970s. If you expand the time horizon examined, most conservative short run "wins" become losses... ...Even with respect to taxes, Hanania looks at changes in the top marginal tax rate which is a misleading metric of taxes on the rich. Looking at effective tax rates over a longer time horizon makes clear this too is a conservative (or libertarian) loss.

The rise of...
Mar 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The idea that there isn't a single person who can't be successful if given a good family is so self evidently false I assume this guy doesn't actually even think this.

Anyway, the idea that black parents don't value education is not supported by survey data. The assumption... Image ...that parenting style has a significant effect on student achievement is also generally not supported, good parents have good kids largely due to genes (e.g. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…).

As for two parent homes, prior to the rise of the federal welfare state... Image
Mar 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@Langerhans_isle They do think this for groups in their coalition. It's worth noting that some long poor performing groups are not in their coalition (e.g. appalachian whites) that show they don't do this with any and all traditionally poor groups. More importantly, while this belief is a... @Langerhans_isle ...common gateway, probably the most important one, for becoming woke, wokeness goes beyond this. You could accept this thesis and be focused on eliminating the effects of past oppression, or even just accepting that history wasn't fair and moving on, w/o hating the groups...
Mar 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Wokeness is not thinking that all group differences must be due to discrimination. Woke people don't generally say that about group differences favoring women, homosexuals, or a non-white minority. Wokeness is about hating the groups that have traditionally done well in society.. ...and trying to invert traditional hierarchies so as to dominate those groups. Narratives about equality are deceptive. The only cases where they care about equality are those where their groups are losing. When they flip a group difference, such as education by sex, their...
Mar 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Dozens of studies spanning over a century of research have shown that at every level of socio-economic status racial gaps in IQ still exist. IQ gaps not explainable by SES are present before children even begin school (e.g. jstor.org/stable/1131385…). SAT scores show the same... ...and these analyses over-state the role of the environment because SES is partly caused by IQ.

As for other countries, the racial IQ gaps found in the US have also been found in Europe (e.g.researchgate.net/publication/34…), Latin America (e.g. researchgate.net/publication/29… , and Africa...
Nov 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It is potentially important that the number of election denying republicans is likely going to increase relative to 2020 suggesting very serious election skepticism will continue to grow. They won't get enough key positions this time around, but if they keep at this they could... ...capture a number of key states in the future. Looking like they will get AZ this time. Will be interesting to see if election skepticism outlives Trump. If so, this could make for some very eventful future elections.

In this sense, I don't think democrats are totally...
Nov 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Jackon's argument seems to be that banning racial considerations would inhibit people's ability to submit life stories that revolve around race to college admissions. I doubt that Jackson would generally endorse the view that when people have racial motivations to do something... Image ...these motivations can be considered in selection processes w/o being unfairly discriminatory.

By this logic, there's be no legal problem with a firm hiring people or a college admitting people partly because they said that as white men they felt they deserved the thing in...
Jul 25, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The recent Mr. Beat video on the great replacement is one of the dumbest things I've watched in a long time. Can't tell whether he's lying or really stupid or both. Crazy to think there are people who liked that video. Even if you're not familiar with any empirical evidence, what he says lacks basic logical coherence in such an explicit and over the top way it's honestly kind of astonishing.
Jul 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
@RichardHanania There's much of value in that article, but I'm not confident it provides a sufficient summary of the laws we have covering discrimination in a purely private (non-contracting /w gov) work place. For instance, it notes that Griggs v Duke Power ruled that using an IQ test to... @RichardHanania screen employees was not legal in contexts where such a test had not been shown to relate to job performance and even goes as far as to say that "“standardized tests are racist if they show disparities”... basically been the law in the United States for 50 years, albeit...
Jun 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
So, this is wrong in basically every way possible. First, skin color has been shown to predict IQ in studies going back nearly a century and racial differences in brain size have been recorded for even longer. Second, racial differences in attitudes about education have not... ...not been reliably shown to even exist. By many measures, black parents don't have worse attitudes about education than do white parents. They don't seem less likely to check on homework either.
Jan 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Looking at intellectual history, especially in the humanities and social sciences where the truth is less easily discernable than in the hard sciences, it is hard not to notice that we have obvious reasons for thinking that people who hold this attitude will lose in a... ..."battle of ideas" with people who do not.

It also is not obvious that the idea of scholars being value neutral, saying the truth no matter the consequence, etc., isn't utopian and implausible given human psychology. And however plausible it is, it is surely less...
Oct 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My take on the debate: I had watched some of destiny's older debates and said various things which, based on said debates, I expected him to aggressively disagree with. He ended up not saying as much as I expected on my comments on things like immigration and crime, genetic... ...causes of group differences, the economic assimilation of immigrations, racial bias in economic and educational institutions, the anti-white left, academic authority, etc. In real time, my reaction to this was just to openly complain about us not getting into where we...
Oct 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I was watching a recent debating involving Destiny, Lauren Southern, AJW, and Fanatic, and there's a point where it seems clear that they recognize that none of them know the difference between an effect size, a confidence interval, and stat significance.
...If that's true, obviously none of them can have political beliefs which are rationally justified by social science, but they seem to do just that. Now, so long as other people are doing this there is a strategic sense in which it makes sense for...
Sep 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Absent from nearly all discussions about increasing school diversity is the fact that, empirically, black on white bullying is far more common than vice versa, and going to a school with lots of minorities predicts increased rates of suicide, and worse academic performance... Even among college kids, campus ethnic diversity predicts lesser school satisfaction. And many of these findings remain after controlling for variables like poverty. "Color blind" ideologies and wokeism can't deal with issues like this, but many parents implicitly know these...
Sep 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some hereditarians who talk a lot about IQ also do this weird thing where they say IQ doesn't impact a person's value. My guess is some of those same people would say that a fetus being destined to be retarded is a valid and eugenic reason for abortion...

quillette.com/2021/09/15/mor… ...and killing someone because they're stupid seems like you're saying intelligence is valuable in a pretty fundamental way. Of course, retards are extreme cases, but it isn't much of a leap to say that the lesser ability gaps seen among normal people also correspond to...
Jun 23, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I decided that looking at the research on non-covid vaccines and adverse effects would help me better contextualize the data on the covid vaccines. So far, doing this has made me think there's more uncertainty about vaccines than I had thought. This is for two reasons, both of... ...of which are exemplified in this review of the literature (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…).

First, even the large sample sized research consistently has huge confidence intervals and this allows researchers to disregard effects of practical significance. For instance, the...