There's a strong correlation between white supremacism and antivax. The link, I believe, is the shared tendency towards conspiracy theories. Crank magnetism, as @MarkHoofnagle called it.https://twitter.com/tweek75/status/1172475283045306368 …
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
White supremacy tends to correlate pretty well with a lot of other forms of bullshit
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@CaraSantaMaria has the pseudoscience underlying the white supremacist worldview ever been tackled by you or the SGU? I really feel like your voice on this subject could be helpful. We skeptics have to wade into this conversation and talk about the problems of "race realism".2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Racism has always been propped up by pseudoscience. It is as fundamentally unscientific a world view as flat earth or global warming denialism.
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Absolutely! And generally the skeptic community has rallied to demonstrate to the public how silly the ideas of flat earthers are, but they haven't done so for ideas that come out of the white supremacist groups that are also gaining traction online.
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No, if anything, they have joined in on misogyny and racism in the US. Seeing Shermer flirt with Molyneux, Ngo, and Quillette eg., or Weinstein's IDW include prominent skeptics like Harris shows they are increasingly contaminated with false notions of biological race.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @CaraSantaMaria
Sad but true. I do hold out a little hope for Shermer, though. He corrected himself years ago after having become enamored with climate science denial, and of late he's shown little signs of maybe correcting himself here.
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For instance, he admitted that right wing violence is a far greater problem than antifa. I don't know if he'll correct, though he never admitted that Andy Ngo is a propagandist for the fascist Brown Shirt Proud Boys, even after that report and videotape. We'll see.
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OTOH, he's never really owned up to his past with respect to the allegations of sexual assault against him.
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Replying to @gorskon @CaraSantaMaria
I always thought his alignment with right wing free speech grift is a rather naked attempt at survival against legitimate accusations. Because you know the left ain’t gonna put up with that shit.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @CaraSantaMaria
Could be. His rejection by the non-bro skeptic community might have led him into the arms of the IDW.
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