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Science hasn't been perfect, even with regard to race, sex, etc., issues, but it isn't "systemically racist." Even its community, which is a sociological thing, not SCIENCE itself, isn't really.
That said, under Wokeness, science is rapidly becoming systemically racist.
Dr Adam Rutherford@AdamRutherford
On Lawrence Krauss' assertion that science is not systematically racist - a thread 1/n
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The way in which people are freaking out about @HPluckrose & @ConceptualJames' book on Critical Theory is very telling. It's a very thorough, conscientious, well referenced scholarly overview of a school of thought. I'm hearing that it's conspiratorial, unethical, evil... 1/
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What happened to the Jews in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and how they doing now?
Just asking. You know. Because stuff's more complicated than one-dimensional narratives.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
Yes perhaps it is just a coincidence that there is significantly less wealth and consistently worse outcomes for the racial group that was subjugated and terrorized for hundreds of years and only achieved even formal legal equality within living people's lifetimes
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The logic of capitalizing the B in black but not the W in white—it simply doesn’t hold. The idea that white does not describe a shared cultural history, but that somehow black does—when describing people of African heritage in the US *and elsewhere*—just doesn’t make sense.
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From my point of view, in addition to being a better, more inventive writer, this is why Coates of 2015 was not at all in the same category as those dominating the conversation now. He simply said white supremacy was "atmospheric," inevitable. He didn't make the other claims.
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Whenever I criticise the Social Justice movement I’m asked “Why wouldn’t you be in favour of social justice? It sounds great!”
We’re all in favour of social justice. But the Social Justice movement has little to do with actual social justice.
Confused? That’s the whole point...
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It is increasingly going to be the case that you’ll need to obtain an advanced to degree to know how to speak, write and signal in ways that broadcast you are not “racist.” In turn *seeming* not racist will be yet another arbitrary point of distinction between elites and masses.
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1/ We hear a lot about people not speaking up because they don't want to lose their jobs. But we hear less about people staying silent so they don't lose their friends.
I lost a close friend this week after sharing my recent @Quillette essay on Facebook. Conversation below.
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Wanting to get rid of standardized exams has profound parallels to the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Doing away with standardized testing was a key part of the Cultural Revolution because it allowed ideological tests to determine one's fate.
#AntiracistCulturalRevolution
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It's good that everybody is now reading these books; it is above all by actually reading the contemporary literature of anti-racism that you see how thin and confected, how shallow and obfuscatory, its account of reality is
Michelle Goldberg@michelleinbklyn
It's mordantly hilarious that, at a time when so many people are reading books on anti-racism, the bestselling one is by a white corporate consultant newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
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