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> Police and prosecutors can and do make mistakes, inadvertently or sometimes prejudiciously. That's one of the reasons murder is used. Hard to fudge the statistics on it, immune t…

US homicide rate: 6.5, Black population: 12.1%, homicide rate/Black %: 0.54 UK homicide rate: 1.1, Black population: 3.15%, homicide rate/Black %: 0.35 (0.65x that of the US) So gu…

Are all immigrant populations interchangeable?

> did you even read the article? I did. It's using a lot of words to obfuscate its central thesis: That even if you select against a trait, that trait won't diminish. It may as wel…

Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%, with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80% - https://en.wikipe…

A movie was filmed to answer your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy A comedy, but based in fact - e.g. educational attainment is inversely correlated with fertility…

> I've been told all my life The younger generations are the target audience, who will believe these lies about your education. As old times slip from living memory, they are rewri…

> It's really depressing how we totally fail to permanently learn our lessons. [..] It's so bizarre that people will campaign for and champion the rollback of regulations that nega…

As people such as Martinez fill Stanford and rise through its ranks, each subsequent president becomes more likely to endorse such actions, instead of demanding apologies for them.…

Surely we can agree that a protest out on the streets, or inside a lecture hall, differ. And for outdoors, "loud and disruptive" is the norm. There the line is usually drawn at vio…

The objection is one can't effectively lecture while heckled, not that they can't "handle" it. Disrupting class, in other words. Though FIRE also calls that heckling "unlawful", wh…

I saw the video of him calmly saying "you are an appalling idiot" twice to a student after the student said what he's doing is disgusting (thrice) [1]. Is there a video of him shou…

In that video he calmly replies "You're an appalling idiot" to the person calling him* "disgusting". I was more interested in the alleged shouting at civil questions. * Correction:…

> The administrator kept asking “is the juice worth the squeeze?” Well no, not at all. If you answer 'no', then they move on to the next thing, and ask again.

> shouting down students who raised questions with civility Sounds awful. Is there video?

"The law was originally approved as a temporary cabinet resolution during the second intifada, but was extended every year since. In 2021, then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said it …

I see. So despite the sources saying that "these subject peoples were then exploited for cheap labor", and, presumably, were also used for the documented human sacrifice, we know t…

> The event that led to the slow demise of Arabian slavery, the Zanj rebellion, occurred a thousand years before transatlantic slavery even existed. Slow indeed: It is estimated th…

Then HN is an exception, because I never come across it otherwise. Which is not surprising, given the complete absence of those instances of slavery and imperialism from pop cultur…

The Arab slave trade took even more slaves than that - mostly Black, but some 2 million Europeans too. How come they didn't benefit so much from it? In fact, almost every region in…