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by asabjorn 8y ago
You seem correct in the observations that the far right and left believe in the same worldview with opposite arrows, seeking to oppress any dissent to this worldview through fake outrage. Both share the worldview that the superior whites ne
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He was fighting against alt righters that had targeted him for months in the clip he got banned for where he called them out on their bigoted opinions and poor behavior, and is a known target of theirs. To say he is alt right is unreasonabl
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The claim of the study is that they can investigate prevalence of fake news sharing of different groups, so the concerns is more expansive than that and puts the scientific validity of their conclusions on dubious grounds. There are four qu
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[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/buzzfeed/ [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/le...
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You can’t have it both ways; claiming no discrimination is happening to a group and then applying social engineering based upon the immutable traits of that group. The questions isn’t if there is discrimination, but how much of it there is
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To show that the classification system used as a premise for the study has problems is addressing the methodology of the study, and exactly what I learned in my scientific training. The fact that the classifications are likely to be politic
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I would also like a comprehensive study, but this article is not it because it is using classifications of fake news made by tabloid media that does not satisfy any scientific requirement of rigor. It is ok that buzzfeed is politically bias
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soundwave106 replied in another message with the sources. Buzzfeed seems to be the primary source of the classifications, a far-left organization, so the conclusion is with all likelihood predetermined by politically motivated definitions o
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The point I made was not that Buzzfeed is left-wing as a reason for doubting it as a source for objective classifications, Le Monde is left-wing as well as reputable and likewise is Heterodox academy, but that rigor is needed in your defini
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Thanks! Buzfeed believes in far-left progressive views and is not known for objective reporting, so using this as a primary source for classifications of fake news would predetermine this outcome. With this in mind I think we can't tru
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Most of us are proponents of a secular state clearly separated from religious practices, and social justice believers are religious [1] with the extra flair that they seek institutional power to enforce their beliefs in ways that violate th
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Do you have a link to the source used to classify some news as fake and other news as real in this paper? How do we know liberal cohorts sources are any more reliable? Eg vox and cnn has a similar type of tilt as breutbart and fox. Without
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Correct. As evidences by modern architecture when you aim for utility then you get neither beauty nor utility, because people do not want to inhabit an ugly place, but if you aim for beauty you will get both. Beauty transcends the living in
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Does anyone have a link to the source used to classify some news as fake and other news as real in this paper? Whomever control that definition can shift any conclusion, similarly to how hate speech definitions is used to silence speech on
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As the other person said you are the one bringing up race, not me. My comment brought up a data set that could be used to evaluate the claim of the article that iq tests are meaningless for what they claim to measure. This data contradicts
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Data for that is hard to find. Since IQ is at least partially hereditary one would assume that the picture amongst legacy admissions to be at least somewhat different than other forms of social engineering. That said some people find legacy
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It sounds fair to assume some basic skills for admittance, such as a completed middle school competency level and native level proficiency in the language advanced university level material will be taught in. Any person without those will b
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If the SAT test wasn't selective in some meaningful way then people admitted through affirmative action should be expected to do approximately as well as the people that was admitted purely through merit. The outcome says otherwise [1]
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In the call with Matt Christiansen they said this was entirely their decision. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U0mQjUA0T5INc_GDkwPJ2mfh...
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I agree that we should avoid any negative characterization or reduction of another individual to an unchosen group based upon immutable traits. I know a party and an associated group in the US that need to clean up their act on this bef
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Well, did you downvote me once you saw it? With regards to your offense that is fine when it is used in this way. However, what is your evidence that anyone in that group was there as collateral damage? The target was alt-rights in a livest
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NYT should have done this research instead of providing an ideologically tilted coverage. I want my newspaper back from the ideologues.
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How do you then defend Patreon hosting radical leftists calling for political violence on their platform, and not taking it down after its reported? But banning a viewpoint opponent of social justice for what seems to be clearly political r
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Why should your right to not hear something trump my right to hear it?
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This transcript shows Patreons malintent rather than alleviate our concerns with it, because they cut out essential context and in Matt Christiansens call with Patreon they admit the real cause was that they don't like his brand [1]. I
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Context matters. The alt-right people he targeted viewed it as an insult, so he used their own language against them and framed them as what they define as bad.
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Patreon has been on a spree to ban people that think the wrong way. Matt Christiansen had a call [1] with Patreon to discuss their banning of Sargon of Akkad. Sargon was notified of the banning by his patrons, not Patreon, and had no recour
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It is not capitalism that restricts speech, it is the religious in social justice that does that through seeking institutional roles and abusing their power in those roles. A tool of favor is to couple that with mobs pretending to be outrag
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There is no excuse for leftist racism, sexism and anti semitism.
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Have you tried reporting these to them? Is there somewhere where these are documented together with the response from their trust and safety team?

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