#ActuallyAutistic retired tech worker. Equity literate ed, indie ed-tech, neurodiversity, social model of disability, design for real life, open source. he/they
May 25, 2018 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
"Needless to say, racists don’t spend a lot of time hunting down reliable data to train their twisted models. And once their model morphs into a belief, it becomes hardwired. It generates poisonous assumptions, yet rarely tests them..."
rnbn.blog/2018/04/01/272/
"Consequently, racism is the most slovenly of predictive models. It is powered by haphazard data gathering and spurious correlations, reinforced by institutional inequities, and polluted by confirmation bias."
"Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained?"
rethinkingschools.org/static/publica…
"Is it necessary to the North American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?"
