A New Radical Centrism

@a_centrism

Pro: Free speech and data. Anti: Blank slate, PC, and dogma. Interests: Culture, race, and pessimism. Mod of eponymous Facebook group.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2018.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet

    All of the threads in my series on race and IQ are located in this thread, presented in the order in which they were originally tweeted.

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  2. For those of you who are eager to reflexively dismiss Sachs' conclusion, I urge you to read the article. Even if it doesn't persuade you -- and I'm not entirely persuaded myself -- it's still the best presentation I've seen of this position.

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  3. Jeffrey Sachs makes a clear and not entirely unpersuasive presentation here of the evidence that political indoctrination does not occur at US colleges. My own personal (entirely anecdotal) observations have pointed to an opposite conclusion.

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  4. James Flynn seems to be a lonely figure these days, offering a (politically incorrect) hypothesis for the black-white IQ gap -- i.e., that it's due to differences in culture -- that neither hereditarians nor environmentalists seem all that interested in.

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  5. "Candidates who do not 'look outstanding with regard to their contributions to diversity' are explicitly rejected. Think about what this means: The foremost job qualification is a sufficient commitment to spreading diversity.”

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  6. HIRING NEW FACULTY AT BERKELEY APPLICANT A: PhD from MIT Many publications *Bland* diversity statement APPLICANT B: PhD from Podunk U No publications *Enthusiastic* diversity statement APPLICANT A does not make it to next stage APPLICANT B makes it to next stage

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  7. If this is white supremacy, then I don't think I want it.

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  8. For whom do you have more contempt -- millionaire bigot Saira Rao making $2,500 a pop lecturing white women about their racism and privilege, or the white women chomping at the bit to pay that kind of money to be debased in their own homes?

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  9. The SWP was historically a Trotskyist communist party that later shifted toward a communist revolutionary ideology similar to that of Castro in Cuba. It supports the destruction of capitalism and the establishment of a "revolutionary Marxist movement."

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  10. 3. velj

    I can't help but notice that the "most regretted" college majors tend to be those in which there are higher percentages of liberals, and the least regretted ones tend to be those in which you see comparatively higher concentrations of conservatives.

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  11. 3. velj

    It is now abundantly clear that America dodged a bullet in 2016.

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  12. 2. velj

    The peculiar qualities that make a nation interesting -- its culture, its idiosyncrasies -- are going to eventually transmute to a coerced melded blankness of no more interest or uniqueness than a layover lounge at the Frankfurt airport.

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  13. 2. velj

    Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  14. 2. velj
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  15. 2. velj

    Is there a single Western nation left on earth which can resist the allure of admitting and then unsuccessfully assimilating Somalis?

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  16. 2. velj

    11/ “Promoting such concepts as the 'oppressive' nature of math instead of real knowledge and skills is a terrible disservice to students... It is especially destructive to those young people who can ill-afford tutors or supplemental studies...”

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    10/ “Postmodernism turns its back on the strides in technique and technology that have created the material conditions for ending poverty... Young people should not be subjected to this pessimistic, unscientific and reactionary hogwash.”

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  18. 2. velj

    9/ “Romanticizing previous 'unwritten cultures' and promoting a philosophical postmodernist, relativist approach to mathematics constitutes an attack on truth, science and human progress. It is the disintegration of thought into the morass of idealist reaction.”

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  19. 2. velj

    8/ Seattle schools “recklessly dismiss[es] the history of mankind’s progress... They propose that the only way students can learn about math is through an individual’s personal relationship with the subject based on their racial, ethnic, or national identity.”

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  20. 2. velj

    7/ “The development of mathematics has been central to the development of scientific knowledge... Its objectivity and truthfulness have been proven by mankind’s historical practice, not by 'stories'.”

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  21. 2. velj

    6/ “The framework encourages this anti-scientific perspective, asking, 'Who is to say what is true?'... [It] makes the claim that because state-sponsored racism has utilized numbers, that mathematics is racist. This is absurd.”

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