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I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "white supremacy" because you use it so often it seems like something nebulous. -- So it seems that "white supremacy" is a catchall term f…

> Are you implying that the Googlers involved are doing this to advance themselves? I'm stating the obvious fact that former Googlers have made themselves notable by engaging in pu…

This sounds exactly like the kind of thing that people who have various other religious conversions say. They have this profound ineffable moral "awakening" and then see fit to sta…

At this point it's looking like the potential to kickstart a professional "activism" career is becoming a fringe benefit at Google. Given that, it's probably best to protest things…

I absolutely don't disagree with you. Personality traits and aptitudes are strongly inherited, along with some genetic randomness and some environmental conditioning. What I don't …

While I think on the whole our society is very biased toward a Boasian view of nature versus nurture: "give me a child and I can raise it to have any personality and aptitudes via …

> Fascinating to see such clear ramifications of allowing religious beliefs to creep into the outcome of successful product expansion. Dicks sporting goods recently took a stand ag…

There's no way that you can form a tally from the sum total of a person's entire lineage in order to equalize them according to their ancestors struggles. Attempts to do this seem …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials 1982 - 1996, that is more than ten years. But the people in that range would have shared formative experiences during the '00s. Thus the m…

As the namesake suggests, "millenials" are ideally people who were young-adults around the 00's. That generally means born from the early/mid 80's to mid-90's. Gen z were/are young…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird "Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in th…

I feel like you misread the thread here and jumped hastily into taking an accusatory tone. The argument in the thread was essentially: Person One: It's bad to say that one group "t…

Why not discuss the article rather than post drive by links to supposed "bias fact check" sites which don't themselves seem to be authoritative....?

If the tendency to have large families is heritable in some measurable way, maybe because of beliefs or personality traits, wouldn't the carriers of whatever makes them have more b…

What comes after we pull ourselves out of the "marketplace of ideas?" With no marketplace where will original thought come from? The whole point of the marketplace is to sift throu…

A lot of partially informed individuals en masse may act more "informed" on the whole than what you're giving them credit for. It's also a less brittle organizational structure tha…

There is a difference between a platform and a publisher. Publishers can curate, platforms aren't supposed to. As I understand it, whether social media companies are platforms or p…

I guess it's not a penalty if you are able to invest the money you get from the helicopter drop in assets, or a sweet gaming rig, while other people are just paying down debt?

> I don't remember any sanctions on Chechen republic after it separated from Russia, for example. The double standards are all explained by geopolitical maneuvering. Western powers…