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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022

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The reaction looks disproportionate, he only shifted to DEFCON 3, taking out his communication infrastructure, should result in a DEFCON 1 response from Ye.

Can't it be both anti-semetic and true? Truth is often anti-semetic, and racist and misogynist and misanthrorpic, etc.

In my view, truth may be uncomfortable (and often is), but it is never racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, etc. Racism et al. isn't bad simply for being hateful, but also for being false.

Many people claim that unequal outcomes in math education is the result of systemic racism, because all individuals having an inherent equal ability is truth.

Suggesting mathematic ability is distributed unequally amongst cohorts that align with ancestral origin is to many racist despite it providing a demonstrably better description of reality.

Many people claim that unequal outcomes in math education is the result of systemic racism, because all individuals having an inherent equal ability is truth.

Many people believe stupid things. Even granting the cases where the belief is honest, truth remains regardless of belief.

Suggesting mathematic ability is distributed unequally amongst cohorts that align with ancestral origin is to many racist despite it providing a demonstrably better description of reality.

Yes, "racism" is often applied with wild abandon far beyond what is, in my view, its proper use case. Though in your specific example, I suspect the real issue is ignorance of the facts in most cases.

Yes truth remains regardless of belief. I've not found a reliable way to prevent or stop people from believing stupid things. Often it seems we send PMC youth to university to be indoctrinated in belief of stupid things.

It's because truth remains regardless, truth can be racist and sexist and etc. Those aren't rebuttals against the nature of truth only a conflict with the objectors concept of the nature of reality.

This is smart, because he couldn't remember if 1 or 5 was the most severe, so he hedged his bets.

Perhaps he’s hit 1 now, but we can’t tell due to the lack of infrastructure?