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in the 1990s we had conquered racism. no one was genuinely racist anymore because that was cringe the development of a new e-meter-like technology in the late 90s and its application led to the new field of identifying secret kinds of racism
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conveniently this test was labeled "not useful for individuals" because it "lacks even internal validity" but the IAT was still used to detect whatever kind of group-level ambient racism was useful to any given social engineer
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this represents a real advance coming from the field of psychology. few ideas have so widely influenced the discourse. science is nigh-dionysian in its power such that even the stuff that doesnt work as intended finds a use somewhere
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anyway it is time to upset this paradigm and use one of my betes noires to end another
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the social problem posed by the IAT is that it confirms we have massive racism dark matter but it doesnt let us know who specifically is a bad racist because its garbage consequently everyone is paranoid about which people are secret racists. and is it them
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Replying to @ThisIsJbone
I twitched when I wrote it but its been a metaphor "no one says there a racist but bad things happen so there is a lot of racism, but where" and then we just hyperstitioned it into reality
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Replying to @eigenrobot
anyways, a higgs boson is when a lady clutches her purse in the elevator
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