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Corey Atad
literally all those people are still saying this all happened because of wokeness
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Ok...I looked him up and SHOCKINGLY, he's anti trans.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
Racists believe what they CHOOSE!!!
https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-apology-for-its-support-of-structural-racism
It's so funny for anyone who live through the ratings on television and music debate in the '90s.
" Trigger warnings"... Are you opposed to ratings on movies, You dip s***?
It might get kids to read more.
;-)
That way people who are upset by trigger warnings about trigger warnings can have a trigger warning to be ready for the trigger warning about the trigger warning about the trigger warning.
It's the age old "only we really know the truth".
White supremacy is a contradiction in terms.
https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3lpwdlst6rk2x
I've always regarded it to be like accents within the same country. We can sound very different but we are all the same. I just try to see and accept humanity in all its diversity...
I think the issue is with what the term "Race" refers to.
In its inception (in imperialist / colonialist Europe), "race" referred to a comprehension of the people of the world falling into distinct categories...
They're literally a garbage publication and there's so much to document that.
No one has ever cared.
NYT has been consistent as an uncritical mouthpiece for racism for decades.
Exactly.
I remember back in the day getting in a verbal fistfight with a professor of political science who insisted NYT was a paper of record and my ORIGINAL sources were not acceptable
We fought in front of the class for the whole class.
Dumb Bitch.
(Except the race thing, fuck that)
It's equivalent to saying "some days are hot". It's mindless drivel.
That explains why we've twice elected the most openly racist President in the past century.
(Also, decline doesn't have to mean a perfectly straight line down)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8568288/
5 seconds later:
"racism has been in decline."
https://bsky.app/profile/coreyatad.com/post/3lpu5dctsnk2d
carried in our blood,
really is true.
You, and I,
in fact everyone,
all over the world,
we're all literally
African,
under the skin.
Old fashioned concepts of race
are not only socially divisive, but scientifically wrong.
DR. SPENCER WELLS
https://youtu.be/P6nEGfcwMNA?si=Wf18lgh6jAKrQ_P5
Kay... 🫠
Wtf is wrong with people?
They will only get worse & worse. The new Daily Mail.
By design, by MAGA mgmt and owners.
That is why it was controversial when it was introduced in the 60s or whenever it was. Pinker is here again demonstrating enlightenment in an anachronistic way. As usual.
Last thing. And I say this as the most left person I personally know, at least in the 1990s through 2000s the curricular wars, parallel with cultural wars, had conservatives correct on teaching reading and math. Blame Rousseau. Correct in that ed research bears it out.
No, just familiarity with how reading is almost universally taught in American schools. In a nutshell: not with phonics. Since the demise of the very popular Lucy Calkins curricula things might be different now.
Most kids learn to read to some extent regardless of the method. 20 something ...
... on criticism of the Lucy Calkins curriculum.
This is case of following the data, etc
So rhetorically Pinker argues that because he is correct on one controversy, by some Latin phrase to be inserted, he is correct on them all
As an Ashkenazi Jew, I can fully state dumbasses abound.
These racists *hate* the idea that they got ahead because society gives a boost to white dudes.
Or at least, start assuming those are genetic.
Also it would be very strange if he thought that race was just about skin color, hair, etc.
He is using "biological reality" to imply that 1. there are reliable cognitive and behavioral differences between those groups, and by extension 2. this matters to how we run society
i.e., equivocation
Now he has a better chance of getting you to agree with the lies that come next.
Lumping that together with phonics and "marriage reduces crime" as all being "politically incorrect" topics is a straight up attempt to normalize eugenics and racism
If all of you people who keep publishing links — and thus funneling traffic — to horrific NYT takes would just...stop doing that...we can make the paper irrelevant and impotent.
Anyone confronts them, they can retreat into claims like "obviously all I mean is skin colour is hereditary! How can you say it isn't?" or some similar BS.
But everyone knows they're defending 19th-century racial pseudoscience.
It's dopamine dependency mixed with an unwillingness to enact stable boundaries.
Sad state of affairs for everyone. 😔
https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003499613-Cancel-Your-Subscription
Harvard professor of 22 years discovers that different decisions have different outcomes, some you might like and some you might not.
For someone who used to be lauded as one of the great thinkers of our times, this is some extraordinarily lazy bullshit that I’d be embarrassed to say in public.
Next up: poachers cause elephants.
https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpwokddpo22k
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wrt:markets ( they found their niche )
"the principle of really existing free market theory is: free markets are fine for you, but not for me. "
🙃
https://chomsky.info/19960413/
To anyone confused:
Race does not have any biological reality
Human variation has biological reality. That variation is continuous throughout the species.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
This obsession about excluding certain variants needs to be put to rest.
You know what's less human than me?
Gorillas, dogs, cats, dolphins...etc.
For example, libs wouldn’t deny that Africans were involved in trans-Atlantic slave-trade, we just don’t think it gives the Confederacy a “pass” over the damn civil war (that they lost!)
African slavery was mostly about warfare and debt. It was generally not life-long slavery and it was certainly not hereditary slavery.
the taiping rebellion took place around the same time, 30 million died, and it took 15 years for them to be put down
To which I reply, "because white people outlawed emancipation and they had to 'own' their family members."
But the only reason "Africans sold slaves" would be relevant is if you don't see injustice as proportional power. It only makes sense if you need perfect victims for a good/evil binary.
Lib: "No I do--"
Maga: "Black people did slavery too!"
Lib: "ok b--"
Maga: "so see, black people are evil!"
Lib: wtf?
This article makes it very clear that arguing for race as basis for treating people or groups differently makes no sense.
https://archive.ph/XpaC6
These clowns are weaponizing legitimate research for their culture war by stripping it of context and deliberately misunderstanding it.
When they're proven wrong - its the scientist who they slandered who gets the blame.
"I think the answer is obvious: We should both recognize that genetic differences between males and females exist and we should accord each sex the same freedoms and opportunities regardless of those differences." /1
1. Make an outrageously bigoted statement with some mealy-mouthed qualification tacked on
2. When Very Intelligent idiots have adopted 1. into use because they can't see step 2. form a mile away, drop the qualification and just press on with the outrageous bigotry
what I meant is that even the other guy he pointed to as the supposed scientific expert for his "race means something important for society" doesn't agree with him, at least not in that particular opinion piece
These people sound fucking ridiculous.
Allow me to quote System of a Down:
ALL RESEARCH AND SUCCESSFUL DRUG POLICY SHOWS THAT TREATMENT SHOULD BE INCREASED AND LAW ENFORCEMENT DECREASED WHILE ABOLISHING MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES.
But obviously, and unfortunately, that is not what the average Black man looks like.
It’s in favor of almost everything decent people oppose.
Heck, they even both have Arthur Brooks on staff.
NYT actively takes stances and promotes ideas that imply the public good is irrelevant.
And then wonders why democracy is collapsing.
It's not close.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bfopinion/race-genetics-david-reich#.bi00VOnb5
To be a better person can you tell me why?
Thanks and appreciated,
Cagedfox
Black people in South Africa will not be genetically similar to those in Morocco.
Because that’s the only context I can think of that makes this make sense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html
These facts are either partially correct or just so imprecise as to be useless.
I’m not surprised.
You should not be either.
Don’t subscribe to it.
Don’t buy it.
Don’t even pick it up off the ground.
I’m not ever looking at the fucking NYT again
Absolute fucking garbage.
Did he do that?
I dislike him and disagree with him about a lot of things and i think he gives fuel to Nazis but I don't think he's a Nazi?
Yea Canada’s marijuana usage has gone so rampant since legalization that we put it in our morning cereals /s
So for, like, 2 people.
Using the same logic, you could probably argue that neighborhoods with higher frequency of drag shows have less crime, and ergo drag creates safer neighborhoods.
And yeah, studies need more than one subject but in my experience TWs have been helpful in informing what I can read and watch, and the flashbacks I've had from seeing graphic content without them was pretty damn harmful
(not 11 year old me, but...)
which makes it extra irresponsible
“we didn’t say race is real, we meant that hereditable traits from geographically clustered people were real”
Therefore clearly…
You want them to read to their kids? Gross.
(Reich's article is the one referenced by Pinker.)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bfopinion/race-genetics-david-reich
No one is saying that individual physical traits aren’t due to genetic factors. But they cannot be used to group people into “races” in any meaningful sense.
Genes determine skin color, but skin color doesn't determine race.
Could you try explaining that?
(I'd like to dive in and talk about the biology / genetics of different people, or groups of people, but kinda tricky if I don't know if we agree what basic terms mean).
it’s just not useful, and if you cared about science you’d take the time to dive in and actually understand why race science is a dead field rather than straw man “leftists” online
why not divide people into races based on other traits, hair texture, ear lobe connectedness, eye color, etc??
I hope to soon see a progressive answer to this article, justifying Harvard's resistance to tRUmp's demands, without any of Pinker's wise-ass backhanded slaps at the values of inclusive justice.
I didn’t read the article.
https://www.pinkerite.com/2025/04/what-happened-to-adam-rutherford-part-4.html