this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
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Corey Atad
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
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https://youtu.be/ebPoSMULI5U?feature=shared
Race, Blackness, or any other identifier is pure BS. Anyone/Everyone are equals. Some in the "lighter color" may get job priority in the tRump administration, but, as a "White" person who tans darkly w little sun, been there, done that, and kicked BU TA.
https://youtu.be/S72vvfBTQws?si=LtSuLj4FHNEs1o0v
Deporting Pinker? Defunding him? Banning him from speaking or teaching? Firing him? Banning his books from the Naval Academy?THAT is censorship. And Pinker and his ilk never faced that.
B. if pompousness is the metric, i think Pinker might be a contender
I desperately need any community support right now
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Militarism
White Supremacy
Patriarchy
Capitalism
You can’t fight one without dealing with the others.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/11/25/what-comes-naturally-2
Comprised of the weakest link in human history!
White males!
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-harvard-summers/
They are very wrong.
https://youtu.be/qUMVXLkygtE?si=BLlXPSZv-DYtcXIw
On a separate note, who's doing Epstein's job these days? Because you know these people aren't quitting cold turkey.
Epstein bought access to scientists and science events he was interested in, just as he bought access to politicians by donations.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/steven-pinker-s-ideas-are-fatally-flawed-these-eight-graphs-show-why/
Right: Dad owned necktie factory.
Just let the sparks fly from the get-go.
Having never took a class under Pinker, but having met him a bunch of times delivering mail and shit, I can say confidently: Stephen Pinker is weird as shit. Just an odd man
Side note, the racism isn’t the only blatantly wrong idea in that graph passed off as accepted knowledge. The smug assumption that what he’s saying isn’t entirely suspect! Every damn sentence! 🙄
Drawing people from their rationalizations is my main goal.
If that is what he is saying, then that is worrying. But I can't find that in that one quote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html
Race's sole purpose is to pseudo-rationalize committing evil by one defined group upon another defined group.
Want a crystal clear example in the form of a question?
Why is a child born to three "white" grandparents and one "black" grandparent considered "black?
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/social-darwinism
Like it's criminals and not brown immigrants targeted in US.
That scientists or historians or others should, as he writes in the piece, "follow the data and report what their findings indicate or show, however politically incorrect."
That doesn't involve any moral judgement and that, I think, is his point.
NYT can SUCK IT!
"Stuff That White Classmate That Wore Confederate Flags for *history* Said During 8th Grade Social Studies" vol. 5
I dont want to know where hes getting "this is a spicy take" from here
Generally, stability, wherever and however it exists, when it succeeds, lowers crime.
Its like saying "holding hands reduces crimes"
You know your talking two layers into a whole bill of goods
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/17/steven-pinkers-aid-jeffrey-epsteins-legal-defense-renews-criticism-increasingly
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2019/07/12/tarring-steve-pinker-and-others-with-jeffrey-epstein/
We should ALL be considering ourselves as Earthlings.
"Of course you would think that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!"
(When you learn to read that young, you wouldn't remember the phonetic component; I was also an early reader.)
So to get a 3400 lb (1545 kg) NASCAR race car up to a speed of 200 mph (321 kilometers per hour), those pistons must be moving up and down very fast
- race science
African-American history is a target threatened for erasure by white nationalists because it validates the excellence & contributions of Black Americans AS WELL AS the savagery & pathological dishonesty of whites for generations.
From slavery to Jim Crow to Trump.
The number of falsehoods in one paragraph amount to intellectual assassination.
This is just wishful thinking on the part of the racist mind. Like phrenology.
There has to be a black American community that has the same boundless prospects and benefits as white communities.
Then you collect that data and collate it.
Thing is, there is no such truly equal black community anywhere in the country!
https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3lpwdlst6rk2x
Do poc not get married? Or attain higher education? It's harder bc the system is rigged not bc there's some innate reason.
(also, a comment on epigenetics (that trauma is passed down
The more a community is policed for being in a situation history created, not some innate inferiority- he continues DOING it.
Isn't the argument for including different "races" (and sexes) in studies based on the idea that there are biological differences?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4194634/
But that doesn't answer why the actual medical studies should include people of different "races' and sexes. The only reason to do that, it would seem, is if there are real and significant biological differences.
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/use-of-race-in-clinical-diagnosis-and-decision-making-overview-and-implications/
Played out often in real life and occasionally the mask slips during research.
See the FLAME study on mechanical thrombectomy in PEs.
Non-blinded allocation of usual treatment vs (much vaunted) research intervention.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10573120/
If you ONLY test a seat belt on people who are 6 feet tall, does it make sense to use that on a kid? No. So you bring in all kinds of varieties of shapes and sizes etc. “Race” as we treat it in this shithole country is actually MADE UP.
Read “Caste.”
I know. I know
Pinkers a disgrace
Despite no one thinking it was possible, Chomsky went further left and Pinker went further right. Which means they can once again stand side by side, from opposite ends of the 🧲.
racism. trying to cover itself in something honorable.
it's despicable.
That's QUITE the take; I'm sure all his other points check out as well and there's nothing creepy or untoward about him or his past.
Racist animus, anti-blackness, islamaphobia are at a very high level globally as evidenced by the rise of far-right white/male fundamentalism
Multiracial people: we exist.
Racists: Lalalala...
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WHAT?!?
Just being present when a crime happens doesn't mean you committed it. That's just "correlation": things that happen to occur together and may or may not be related. Correlation is entirely different from cause and effect.
Just sayin'
So called Evolutionary psychology proposes that those who 'evolved' out of Africa became smarter, racist to the core.
Dershowitz also. We live in an era of evil openly triumphant.
The fuck kind of harm do they do??
They’ll trip over themselves trying not to sound like absolute fucking psychopaths: “TWs are harmful because they get in the way of me sharing photos of mangled bloody corpses.”
~ Franz Boas
That quote was reportedly Franz Boas’ last words.
I read Charles King’s “Gods of the Upper Air” in February 2020. Highly recommend. “Race” IS a lie.
What Pinker says is that he follows evidence to the truth whether it’s politically correct or not.
Pasteurized Racism=MAGA
[angry goose meme] which genes, Stephen??
shorter Pinker: oh, you know the ones
https://www.pinkerite.com/2025/05/what-happened-to-adam-rutherford-part-9.html
Except for drumpf and MAGATs.
Yet, whenever you are in a group of people you can see they are uninterested in thinking, understanding, and slow.
literally no thoughts or curiosity upstairs.
if they do go to school, they ignore learning and have no interest in it, viewing education as a series of hoops to get more money, food, sex, power.
yet, i am a moron.
the reality is, i am a moron in the grand scope of humanity, but a genius vs the average person. Thats the paradox of ~130 but dumb
near as i can tell youre all equally stupid in your own cultural ways
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(So this new development is utterly not unexpected.)
His whole research project on music is just straight up race science and it's disgusting.
#RacismIsUnfettered
#ThanksTrump