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You're the only person in this conversation who seems to get it, and I just want you to know how thankful I am that you haven't been afraid to express these thoughts. I think that …

>If you want a better internet, you might stop and think about the fact that it is built by people and people need to eat. De facto expecting slave labor from some people and then …

>Who aren’t Africans, but for the most part are of mixed background of Africans and Europeans in the last 500 years. Again, broad pronouncements like this square... strangely... wi…

I understood what you said. This post is simply a reiteration of statements I've already addressed. If you did not mean to make racially-charged statements, you should reassess how…

That's... quite the statement to make with a straight face.

>No, the trace levels of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is very unlikely to change by gathering more diverse range of cohorts. Black Americans? Broad pronouncements like this square..…

>Considering how much worse off African Americans are socio-economically, on average, than white Americans, it's a no-brainer that their kids end up worse off on average as well. I…

>The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things. I'm at a lo…

It was not the fact that they were black. It was the fact that, as a black student, I was not subject to the same warped expectations that I found common while taking higher-level …

This contributed to my later success, but it generally would not - and, to my recollection, doesn't - explain the massive jump in grade. The main difference was a more conscientiou…

>I will admit that the solution is not so simple as my anecdote might suggest So, no. Please read carefully and avoid kneejerk responses.

I disagree that "too many" people are going to college. That's a canard which defends the artificial exclusivity of education. The vast majority of people are capable of learning a…

>The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things. If we're go…

They're ads that aren't clearly identified as ads, and they've covered most of the frontpage. That's not journalism, and if any major newspaper did this, it would be outrageous.

The link is just to The Verge's home page because I think it speaks for itself, at least as of posting on the Saturday after Black Friday 2021.

At the end, the author muses that he is too close, temporally, to the end of the Bush administration to determine how Polybius' thoughts on the political role of religion held true…

I'm still not convinced of the wisdom of carrying water for these things which ultimately triggered catastrophe, through the backlash to their excesses. It's not a matter of there …

$FOO is bad because $FOO's faults have tended to create anti-$FOO people. Further: these faults also tend to drive anti-$FOO people to violence - often not even simply as a matter …

There is a reason that my issue with the essay is presented as one that maps to rhetorical phenomena similar to the one specifically in question. It's because the central issue is …

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Much appreciated.

You have a curious definition of the words "vicious" and "radicalized". Would you agree or disagree that characterizing Communist regimes as such, within a Communist regime, would …