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It has nothing to do with anyone's disagreement with anyone and everything to do with the fact that predictive criminology was the core "science" behind the ent
by devmor 4y ago
It has nothing to do with anyone's disagreement with anyone and everything to do with the fact that predictive criminology was the core "science" behind the entire Nazi movement.
If you want to defend the core of Nazi beliefs for use as a modern technology, you should expect some societal pushback don't you think?
- seibelj 4y agoStraight to calling people nazis! This must be parody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
- ziddoap 4y agoMy god, they didn't call you, or anyone, a Nazi. They stated a fact regarding Nazi's relationship to predictive policing. The fact that you read that and somehow viewed it as being called a Nazi is something that might deserve some self-reflection.
- yamanawabi 4y agoThings got so bad in 1930s Germany that Hitler justified the killing of lawbreakers, Jews, Gypsies and other groups with an idea that they had a criminal biology. They believed that their hereditary factors could predict criminology. Of course there was no truth to that, but Nazi germany ate it up anyway. Kinda sounds familiar, huh.
- devmor 4y agoI did not call you a Nazi, I informed you that you are defending someone who championed something synonymous with Nazis and thus he should expect resistance. And for the record, Godwin's law only applies when you are not literally defending Nazi beliefs.
- kcplate 4y ago> defending someone who championed something synonymous with Nazis It’s probably a good time to note on here that the professor in his byline characterizes himself as an “unabashed Zionist”. Which I read to mean is likely Jewish and therefore likely quite familiar with the Nazis and able to determine dangerous ideas that may have been attributed to that regime. Also statistically at 62 years old probably knows direct victims of the Nazis, likely some from his own family. He also conveyed what he perceives to be anti-Semitic behavior on campus being a factor in his retirement. So speaking for myself only on here, I am going to hold off on creating associations with this professor and give him the benefit of the doubt on this topic.
- devmor 4y agoI don't want this to devolve into political posturing nonsense, but an absolutely huge majority of the alt-right that rail on and on about "woke" politics refer to themselves as "Zionists", call any support of Muslims and/or criticism of Israel "anti-semitic" and are not Jewish. Making that assumption about him because he calls himself a Zionist is absolutely not a sound leap in logic. Also, from a cursory look at his publicly available family history, his line has been in the US for at least 200+ years, so I would very seriously doubt anything you assumed was true. Lastly, someone's heritage has very little bearing on their words and actions. While it may be worth considering when things are ambiguous, it doesn't really apply to a situation like this at all.