Kulturkampf

[Nintex]

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I will never understand the modern liberal policy to turn every urban center into a refugee camp

[Besticus Maximus]

after seeing so many of these cases. it seems the apologies are never enough no matter how much they apologize.

the guy ruined someone's life. his own life must be ruined in return.

[HaughtyFrank]

It's really weird how Community and Always Sunny in Philadelphia just removed episodes because of a blackface joke. I'm currently rewatching Sunny and it sure is weird when suddenly some episodes are just marked as "not available", especially when the episodes around them so far had jokes about rape, trans people, gay people and even dropping a "faggot"

The most bizarre aspect is that I don't recall anyone even calling for the removal of those episodes. It's like the networks saw other companies respond to George Floyds death so they just had to do something, anything and this was the best they could come up with

[Uncle]

I think the Always Sunny creators feel that way about their own episodes to an extent, if I remember right from their podcast, very modern left-leaning "we must be mindful of the art we create, and it wasn't ok then and it's not now"

but it's been a while since I saw the ones where they comment on them

[Nintex]

Self-censorship is the dumbest form of censorship

[benji]

Evolution educators—even if sticking to E.coli, fruit flies, or sticklebacks—must confront the ways that evolutionary science has implicitly undergirded and explicitly promoted, or has naively inspired so many racist, sexist, and otherwise harmful beliefs and actions. We can no longer arm students with the ideas that have had harmful sociocultural consequences without addressing them explicitly, because our failure to do so effectively is the primary reason these horrible consequences exist. The worst of all being a human origins that refuses humanity.

So many of us are still thinking and teaching from the charged tradition of demonstrating that evolution is true. Thanks to everyone’s hard work, it is undeniably true. Now we must go beyond this habit of reacting to creationism and instead react to a problem that is just as old but is far more urgent because it actually affects human well-being.

Bad evolutionary thinking and its siblings, genetic determinism and genetic essentialism, are used to justify civil rights restrictions, human rights violations, white supremacy, and the patriarchy. And as a result, evolution is avoided and unclaimed by scholars, students, and their communities who know this all too well.

In Why be against Darwin? Creationism, racism, and the roots of anthropology,* Jon Marks explains how early anthropologists, in the immediate wake of Darwin’s ideas, faced a dilemma. If they were to continue as if there were a “psychic unity of (hu)mankind” then they felt compelled to reject an evolution which was being championed by some influential scientific racists. Marks writes, “So either you challenge the authority of the speaker to speak for Darwinism or you reject the program of Darwinism.” Anyone who knows someone who’s not a fan of evolution, knows that the latter option is a favorite still today. And it’s not  creationism and it’s not science denial. It’s the rejection of what we know to be an outdated and tainted notion of evolution. No one can update and clean up evolution as powerfully as we can if we do it ourselves, right there, in the classroom.

For actively dismantling evolution’s racist/etc past and present, may I suggest checking out and maybe assigning (+ the Marks article linked above):

10 Facts about human variation by Marks

Is Science Racist? by Marks

Racing around, getting nowhere* by Weiss (fellow mermaid) and Fullerton

That Marks book says, that yes, science is racist and it's time to move on:

Marks’ concern isn’t so much that the content of science is racist as it stands, but that it is constructed in such a way as to allow what he views as evil factual premises into its knowledge base. He highlights four of the foundational pillars of science that he views as epistemological vulnerabilities. These are: (i) naturalism, the idea that the natural world can be comprehended without recourse to the supernatural (which Marks claims is impossible due to the characteristics of human thought, while riffing on creationism); (ii) experimentalism, the idea we can study the world in controlled settings (which Marks says is impossible because things are different everywhere); (iii) rationalism, the idea that reason should govern scientific practice; and (iv) accuracy, the idea that scientific ideas should be factually correct.

Marks claims that all these premises are unusual and do not make for a better mode of thought when compared to other modes of thinking.

Semi-related, I discovered that believing that humans are naturally sexed is capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy:

Coloniality of White Feminism and Its Transphobia: A Comment on Burt

In this comment, I challenge Burt’s colonial epistemological framework in her theorizations of sex, gender, and transness. Drawing upon anti-racist, decolonial, and trans of color feminisms, I argue that transphobia is inherent to white feminisms due to its roots in colonialism. Heteropatriarchy and cisnormativity are products of colonialism, and feminists who espouse transphobic discourses invariably reproduce colonial and white supremacist frameworks of patriarchy and gender violence.

[HaughtyFrank]

And this guy has 50k live viewers

[benji]

[Nintex]

I almost feel bad for Reddit when 4chan runs these experiments 

[Nintex]

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[Nintex]

[Nintex]

Are you telling me that Donald Trump may yet wiggle his way out of another jam

[benji]

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

 YUM! BRANDS IS UNDER ATTACK

[benji]

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

Are there actually any kind of studies or surveys about the effectiveness of DEI training like this? Because it's just hard to imagine this having any effect at all

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[Polident]

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Actually amazing how he gives a no-nonsense answer on merit, only for a presumably white lady to chime in with “but you understand that representation matters??” 

The widen eyes, exasperated breath, and face palm reaction. How it reads is he believes he earned his place. Rightfully so. And the two journalist attempting to diminish it by making it about race. Giving them the benefit of the doubt of being well meaning, but it’s insulting. Any sane person with integrity sees it for what it is. Contrast it with somebody without integrity, like the Gay ex-Harvard president.

[Uncle]

Are there actually any kind of studies or surveys about the effectiveness of DEI training like this? Because it's just hard to imagine this having any effect at all

it has an effect because it's an implied threat

"you will keep these lessons in the back of your mind forever, or be fired and never find work again"

[HaughtyFrank]

They're really gambling on the world ending before they run out of seconds.

[Nintex]

90 seconds to midnight fellas. Crooked Joe Biden brought us closer to annihilation than ever before.  

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

2001, such a calm and relaxing year

[Nintex]

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[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

So it's not my fault?