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If the author was any more alt-right he would've shown up to class dual wielding bushmasters for one ultimate science lecture. I bet he cried for weeks when he found out the Steele Dossier was confirmed by 2 independent intelligence sources. His white power turned to golden shower.
ITT we flag a post not because it breaks guidelines, but because we disagree with it.
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> This is a BIG claim. Certainly, probably unachievable. I am not really a fan of what some call a meritocracy, it is complete hogwash. If I must chose I prefer it to active racial discrimination however because making admission not factor in some alleged inequality between ethnic demographics is certainly preferable. Where does ethnic discrimination help? In stoking ethnic conflicts and the deteriorating situation i…
> I am not really a fan of what some call a meritocracy, it is complete hogwash. If I must chose I prefer it to active racial discrimination however because making admission not factor in some alleged inequality between ethnic demographics is certainly preferable. If you agree that meritocracy is hogwash, then what do you propose in its stead? If we know that "meritocracy" as commonly practiced produces results that…
Not playing that game. The first step is to remove racial discrimination for hiring and education. You don't need to correct for that because it will correct itself after some time, but only if we stop discriminating.
This is a sad state of affairs where one can't even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines. In the long run, this has the potential to turn people how want to stay out of politics and draw them in out of necessity, or they may also be cowed into something they disagree with to protect their livelihood. In either case, it's not a good thing that one may not seek science…
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What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob. There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you. You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”. That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.
this is the same mob that accepts you as 'in' based on how readily your social profile can be mapped to a silhouette template drawn in broad strokes that do not degrade or distort from low bandwidth amplification because it is already in its most reduced form to begin with.
lightweight, irreducible binary properties, such as 'Y does|does not support cause Z' percolate to the surface where they can be accessed by an audience whose members go no deeper than is necessary to splash another with hot takes.
it costs almost nothing to attract the attention (and KPIs) of the broad, shallow audience that values "cancelation." both sides of political spectrum messaging are increasingly (and existentially) optimized to cater to this fraction of their constituency above all else.
This is a sad state of affairs where one can't even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines. In the long run, this has the potential to turn people how want to stay out of politics and draw them in out of necessity, or they may also be cowed into something they disagree with to protect their livelihood. In either case, it's not a good thing that one may not seek science…
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This is a sad state of affairs where one can't even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines. In the long run, this has the potential to turn people how want to stay out of politics and draw them in out of necessity, or they may also be cowed into something they disagree with to protect their livelihood. In either case, it's not a good thing that one may not seek science…
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> I am not really a fan of what some call a meritocracy, it is complete hogwash. If I must chose I prefer it to active racial discrimination however because making admission not factor in some alleged inequality between ethnic demographics is certainly preferable. If you agree that meritocracy is hogwash, then what do you propose in its stead? If we know that "meritocracy" as commonly practiced produces results that…
> what do you propose in its stead? Not playing that game. The first step is to remove racial discrimination for hiring and education. You don't need to correct for that because it will correct itself after some time, but only if we stop discriminating.
What game are you playing, then?
> You don't need to correct for that because it will correct itself after some time, but only if we stop discriminating.
How much time? Do we start counting from the end of the Civil War, or just from the 1960s? It seems like your approach has had plenty of time to prove itself and failed to produce results.
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do you really think this guy invoking Godwin's law is heinous enough to cancel this guys speech about extra solar planets? At best, its a petty retort isn't it?
From my comment: > I don’t think MIT should’ve cut the author’s speaking invitation. "Oh but you said 'But' and we should ignore anything said after 'But...'". Sure, but if you could afford the slightest bit of nuance, you'd recognize that "don't cancel an academic lecture" and "making a bad-faith dumb Nazi comparison deserves to be dragged on twitter" are 2 different things? And asserting the former with the latter…