link because I'm not that much of a fucking liberal https://twitter.com/forestvanslyke/status/1758731412818293115

        • Nakoichi [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Third party journalists critiques: Biased

          Interview with racist author of racist book saying "I swear it's not racist": Not Biased

        • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          Their entire worldview begins with the premise that they are le rational very smart logic boy

          • SoyViking [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            Liberals love nothing more than to claim a win on a technicality, even if that technicality is literally just bullshit they just made up themselves.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        "This source on the book is bad because it's biased and not from the authors"

        Are the authors unbiased, or are we to say that the only permissible bias is that of the author? I genuinely think those are the only two readings and both are completely stupid.

      • LeZero [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Why the fuck would you admit you didn't read it after defending its contents?? Is it a fetish for humiliation?

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    Seeing the purposely inserted race science innuendo: "see! They took great care to not be racist! It's everyone else making it racist!"

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    When you are saying that intelligence is mostly genetically heritable and that black people have hereditarily lower intelligence, but you aren't saying they are genetically inferior or anything racist like that blob-no-thoughts

    The authors imply some sicko shit beyond this, but "black people are genetically inferior" is plainly what the text says in overt fashion.

    • SSJ2Marx
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      4 months ago

      "The Bell Curve" is bad, but one thing people genuinely get wrong a lot is that "heritability" doesn't necessarily mean "passes through genes". Your economic class is "heritable" since you usually get it from your parents, after all.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Environment is also highly heritable and yet he pits the two factors against each other.

  • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Sam Harris podcast episode on it was called “Forbidden Knowledge”

  • SSJ2Marx
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    4 months ago

    I don't understand why people tweet things. Is this a single bit of an ongoing conversation? Did he just learn what The Bell Curve is and crack off? Who is this message intended for, and what is it intended to say to them?

    I have idle thoughts too, but I've never felt an urge to broadcast them.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      That's literally what Twitter is all about and why it's so unhinged. The only other aspect is reacting if the to of your head to somebody else's idle thoughts.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Reedy white guy discovers that dogwhistles give him plausible deniability, so he can still say things with the energy of racial slurs with far less of the social repercussions.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    Who is this? Is he a failed YouTuber or something? That’s even sadder than being a failed Hollywood actor with the bar being so low to become a content creator.

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Something that really frustrates me as a writer is that we spend so much time on our words yet people misinterpret what we say or don’t even bother to read them at all.

    🤣 the person who didn't bother to read the bell curve, wow, what a ride

    • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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      4 months ago

      New site tagline just dropped.

      "I need you to understand something. I am a real person, and I am sobbing while eating my dinner because I am tired of people calling me racist."

      • Dessa [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        I'm giving my kid a cellphone because I want them to have a headstart in bullying chuds.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      Sometimes I worry that I didn't get enough done in my 20s, then I see guys like this and realise I'm actually doing just fine.