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The article read like it coiuld have been written by Jordan Peterson himself. "Reverse" racism is because it is describing the fact that straight white men ca

by bregma 5y ago

The article read like it coiuld have been written by Jordan Peterson himself. "Reverse" racism is because it is describing the fact that straight white men can no longer rely on their sex and race and sexual orientation to help narrow the field of competitors for whatever they want. It's the reverse of racism, in which the field of competition is narrows to those without certain apparent traits or attributes. The reverse of racism, not racism pointed the other direction.

rzz3 5y ago
It sounds to me like the student was relying on his grades and intellect, and denied admission into the honors program solely due to his race and gender.
- bregma 5y ago
  It sounds to me like the student did not get accepted into a highly competitive program and used his racial prejudice to come up with a racist target to blame. He adopted the null hypothesis that his lack of acceptance to the program was due to random chance alone. The evidence used to reject that null hypothesis consisted of some hand-picked samples from a subpopulation of applicants with whom he had social-networking contacts (and sure, he's got some friends who don't look like him, maybe even some of his best friends), further categorized by him and his collaborator subjectively into racial groups and the proxy metric of being on the dean's list, compiled into some regression numbers of unspecified strength. There are plenty of opportunities for skew and bias an the method of his research. If this study was robust enough, there would be plenty of parties interested enough that it would be a career-making, not career-breaking publication. The author of the piece simply wanted an anecdata to support his racist views, and if you're thinking "hell yeah, white guys gotta stand together to stop those people" you're exactly the base he's pandering to.
rmbyrro 5y ago
What about it was written by Peterson or not? We're discussing the ideas and the merit behind them. Let's have an intelligent discussion, rather than an ideological waste of time...
- bregma 5y ago
  This article was almost identical Peterson's recent publicly published letter of resignation from his tenure position at the University of Toronto in which he declaimed that none of his white male students could get jobs in academia. If you wish to discuss the ideas and merit behind them it would be beneficial to go to the original source, and Peterson has primacy of publication here.

by bregma 5y ago

rzz3 5y ago

It sounds to me like the student was relying on his grades and intellect, and denied admission into the honors program solely due to his race and gender.

bregma 5y ago
It sounds to me like the student did not get accepted into a highly competitive program and used his racial prejudice to come up with a racist target to blame. He adopted the null hypothesis that his lack of acceptance to the program was due to random chance alone. The evidence used to reject that null hypothesis consisted of some hand-picked samples from a subpopulation of applicants with whom he had social-networking contacts (and sure, he's got some friends who don't look like him, maybe even some of his best friends), further categorized by him and his collaborator subjectively into racial groups and the proxy metric of being on the dean's list, compiled into some regression numbers of unspecified strength. There are plenty of opportunities for skew and bias an the method of his research. If this study was robust enough, there would be plenty of parties interested enough that it would be a career-making, not career-breaking publication. The author of the piece simply wanted an anecdata to support his racist views, and if you're thinking "hell yeah, white guys gotta stand together to stop those people" you're exactly the base he's pandering to.

rmbyrro 5y ago

What about it was written by Peterson or not? We're discussing the ideas and the merit behind them. Let's have an intelligent discussion, rather than an ideological waste of time...

bregma 5y ago
This article was almost identical Peterson's recent publicly published letter of resignation from his tenure position at the University of Toronto in which he declaimed that none of his white male students could get jobs in academia. If you wish to discuss the ideas and merit behind them it would be beneficial to go to the original source, and Peterson has primacy of publication here.