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peanutcrisis
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I think OP is trying to convey that he's unconvinced that gender bias is at play here, and taking into account the fact that she's incredibly privileged, the thought of a powerful person making a tenuous claim to victimhood is not
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peanutcrisis
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I think you are mistakenly conflating gender bias with qualification bias. The OP's invocation of Berkson's Paradox here does not say anything about sex. You could change the sex of this female executive and OP's argument wou
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Resistance to Critiques in Academic Literature: An Example from Physics Research
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That is assuming that the moral fashion is actually doing that. Unfortunately, the moral fashion is more about starting with a predefined set of conclusions, then working backwards to justify those conclusions. I don't think we need to
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peanutcrisis
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Sociology departments in America are captured by the current moral fashion (identity politics). If it were me, I'd think twice before believing the research that you linked to.
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peanutcrisis
3y ago
You should check out this interview with FIRE's president [0], and his upcoming book [1]. You can also check out Jerry Coyne's blog [2], which acts as a repository for a lot of the bad behaviour coming from the Critical Social Jus
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Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?
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A Word from Abigail Thompson, a Vice President of the AMS [pdf]
(ams.org)
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PEN America – Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and Language of Harm
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Related reads that might provide more context: 1. https://pen.org/report/booklash/ 2. https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/the-book-banners-on-the-left 3. https://newdiscourses.com/w
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Bertrand Russell – The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed
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Steven Weinberg's Remarks on The Sokal Hoax (1996)
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OP risk being misconstrued as being racist. The fact that the original question was asked in the first place really shows how ass-backwards American society has gotten, with reverse racism being rebranded as a virtue, aka "anti-racism&
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Mandatory read http://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html
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Yeah, I see this quite a fair bit from The Guardian. A recent example [0] that was called out here [1] and a recent discussion on HN here [2]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industria
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Harvard University Ranked Last in 2024 College Free Speech Rankings
(rankings.thefire.org)
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Jerry Coyne's blog: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/
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The origin of Henry Cort’s iron-rolling process: assessing the evidence
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Philosophy’s No-Go Zone
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The point of providing a link here is to outsource the explanation to someone who does it better. If you take issue with that, you could always get chatGPT to summarize for you.
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I wonder what people who are working on foundations think of this.
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Could you provide evidence for your claim?
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Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and the Language of Harm
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The Book Banners on the Left
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Politicians, scientists spar over alleged NIH coverup using COVID19 origin paper
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The Suffocating Censoriousness of Identity Authorship
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Auction Theory [0] might be of interest. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_theory
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My children’s book about India was rejected because I’m white
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Stoking the Moral Panic Against Innocent NYT Journalists
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Why not credibly? What's your case? Why not state it? Your inability to do so is consistent with the intellectual dishonesty that was evident in the guilt by association arguments you employed earlier. And here I thought you could do a
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