the race thing thats happening now is especially blackpill to competent outsiders because its apparently deontology driven now, i shit on consequentialists quite a lot, but its a useful lens for evaluating policy (draft credo: private virtue, public consequentialism)
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this too is under-discussed but a major driver of Problems is that no one really has any idea how to solve problems plaguing Black/low-income/whatever subsocieties in the us its not for lack of trying the causes of failure are outside this threads scopehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1270518292604530688?s=19 …
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but what is fairly bleak is that whatever policy changes fall out of this wave are unlikely to solve anything completely unsurprising given the pathetic quality of work coming out of social justice departments but bleak nevertheless
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none of the token woke shit will do anything but make insane white people feel good for ten minutes none of the HR commissars will do anything but make people scared of each other, and alienated even police reform (remember that) while good, wouldnt move the needle that much
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so we have a moment, where minority advocates have great political momentum, and their agenda for change is built primarily on the hysteric testimonials of professors who got their phds on the strength of autoethnographic dissertations
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theres no competent policy work it doesnt matter who is put into power nothing of use will be accomplished because there are no useful ideas in the social justice memeplex
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As we’ve made progress removing concrete, identifiable instances of racism, and outcomes have still not equalized, racism has had to become like an invisible aether or phlogiston to survive as a theory. The paradox of progress is that it results in thinking racism is worse
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It's the dark matter that explains underperformance
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