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by asabjorn 5y ago
You can as well as me google to see the myriad of critical social justice conferences and events she has contributed to. She is quite productive. You can also see her calls for the critical social justice DEI solution when she calls for rac
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I guess I also have to repeat here as well then. The problem with the kind of critical theory dialectic Nicole Hannah-Jones use is how the claim of truth is made. I showed you how critical theory projects like the 1619 project makes a claim
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by asabjorn 5y ago
You asked: > Can you support that assertion? I got the sense of your position before; my question is, what makes it true? I disagree for the reasons below that > Well that is a convenient formulation for someone who disagrees and has
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Practically speaking, the idea behind the 1619 project is to make it impossible to think of the American Revolution or Founding without also thinking of slavery and a tendentiously, unnecessarily exaggerated notion of its significance both
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by asabjorn 5y ago
> In college, it certainly has and is recognized. Tenure, in particular, is at least partly designed to protect professors' ability to research and speak, free of censorship or influence. It is true that tenure is there to protect p
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by asabjorn 5y ago
She is free to continue doing activism and even continue her indoctrination efforts, she just can't expect to subvert university resources under tenure to achieve her activist goals. Note however that she was still offered an untenured
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> what does the term "woke" mean in this comment? In brief, “woke” means having awakened to having a particular type of “critical consciousness,” as these are understood within Critical Social Justice. To first approximation, b
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by asabjorn 5y ago
> You may believe the 1619 Project is a "major indoctrination effort" and that it lacks "academic rigor", but that's not established fact at all. Many people think highly of it and of her work - including her pot
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by asabjorn 5y ago
It is relevant because you had an organization with a clear creed and track record to protect the liberal principles even when its inconvenient, that is now subverted into political activism for progressive causes in the same way that simil
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by asabjorn 5y ago
I am not sure how I am supposed to get your identity from you providing a few published examples. The UNC Chapel Hill case is a bad example as Nikole Hannah-Jones engaged in divisive political activism in her role instead of academic rigor
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Its got a huge endowment and a strong brand that can be subverted into fighting for progressive causes instead of what it used to do. It's woke 101 playbook. Basecamp and coinbase showed that you either choose to have zero tolerance of
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Can you please provide examples where you think fire should have stepped in? Universities are hardly right-wing institutions that fire academics for left-wing research, quite to the contrary "academics" too often engage in indoctr
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by asabjorn 5y ago
https://www.thefire.org/ has picked up the mantle on executing on the vision of what ACLU used to be. ACLU is lost, I stopped donating a while ago as well, and it won't return until they oust those that work against th
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Absolutely not, but that is a demographic that is better off working from Eastern Europe than pursing less noble means :D
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To protect the capability to rehabilitate Norwegians the Norwegian people is struggling to find a way to stop this “theft tourism” as it does victimize people (private citizens through home breakins and businesses that already tax high to s
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by asabjorn 5y ago
It does, but the Norwegian system is not perfect. It does not work as a mitigation against Eastern European “theft tourists” that come to Norway to steal. This is because Norwegian jails pay inmates per day in addition to being setup for re
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by asabjorn 5y ago
I come from Norway in Scandinavia and I think you are confusing helping people rehabilitate with being soft on crime. Norway is actually tough on shoplifting. It is not tolerated, and its mitigated by arrest and the police spend resources t
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by asabjorn 5y ago
There is a lot of money in being hired and promoted in the top unicorns, so its not surprising that when such a company allow a parallel lower-effort identity-based system of hiring and promotion some choose this path instead of more high-e
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by asabjorn 5y ago
I tend to trust state policy and political leanings more as an indicator then a self reported study. Can you please dig into why you trust this self reported study on the politically charged mask use question? Especially when the study is p
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by asabjorn 5y ago
What metric shows strict lockdowns are effective? As I've shown outcomes on covid cases are equivalent in populous strict lockdown states (NY, CA) and open states (Florida, Texas). Death rate to confirmed covid cases is about 1.6% for
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Yes, age distribution matters as older people are at higher risk. As some signal for this Florida is USAs old people home, so you would expect that if masks had a large positive mitigatory effect then Florida with its low mask use would do
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by asabjorn 5y ago
>To actually tease out the effects of mask use from jurisdictional case statistics, you’d also have to (1) have stats on mask use, which (despite people making claims about it in coordination with blatantly false claims about cases), I h
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by asabjorn 5y ago
People have traveled and moved extensively to Florida as well as TX from NY and CA, so any high-spread virus would spread to Florida and CA then spread within them. If masks and other strict lockdown measures were effective then by now open
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by asabjorn 5y ago
The confirmed cases to population is 10.3% for NY (not NYC- 2.08m cases to 19.4m population), 9.5% for CA (3.77m cases over 39.5m population), 10.1% for texas (2.93m cases over 29m population), 10.6% for Florida (2.29/21.48). So to be
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by asabjorn 5y ago
The confirmed cases to population is 10.3% for NY (not NYC- 2.08m cases to 19.4m population), 9.5% for CA (3.77m cases over 39.5m population), 10.1% for texas (2.93m cases over 29m population), 10.6% for Florida (2.29/21.48). Deaths to
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Death rate to confirmed cases is TX 1.7% (51k deaths over 2.9m cases), Florida 1.56% (36k deaths over 2296 cases), CA 1.64% (62k deaths over 3.74m cases) [source: google coronovirus stats]. So data does not confirm your conclusion.
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by asabjorn 5y ago
NY (not NYC) cumulative cases is 2m and population is 19.4m, so about 10.3% of population [source: google coronavius stats]. > California 3.7M cumulative cases & 1,336 case/day current 7-day average vs. 39.5M population Its 3.77
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by asabjorn 5y ago
> N95/FFP2 seem to be very effective. Why does then the states with the highest mask use (CA, NYC) have much higher covid positive rates than states with some of the lowest mask use (Florida, NYC)? > Education is key to understan
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by asabjorn 5y ago
> I suspect that in locations with a higher prevalence of masking the population is generally more vigilant: more hand washing, more social distance, stay at home when ill, avoid obviously ill people, and so on. May be a case of correlat
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by asabjorn 5y ago
And I assume you were also trained in how to use the masks properly so that they didn't increase chance of virus spread and only used N95 masks? E.g. don't touch mask and dispose/clean the mask after each use. Almost nobody d

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