Jul 14, 2021·edited Dec 25, 2021Liked by Ives Parr
"if we see that minorities are underrepresented relative to their proportion of the greater population, this is good evidence for racism" - That's only true if the underrepresented minorities have equal interest in and ability to join the population in question. Charles Murray has spent much of his career making the case that that isn't so. (This is not a claim about genetics - the effect might be entirely due to culture, but seems to be real nonetheless.)
The very idea that subgroups of humans (races, ethnicities, genders, ...) might, on average, differ from one another in *any* way has become taboo on the left (one wonders how the "racists" are supposed to know who to discriminate against, if the subgroups are all identical).
If point (1) (per your summary) is wrong, then all the other points that follow from it are wrong as well.
>While this isn’t just another story about the toxicity of pre-med culture, getting weeded out, or leaving my academic path for some earth-shattering love of another aspiration, it is a story of how white supremacy lives and breathes in each of our bodies, spreading between each of us — body to body — like contagion. It is a story of trying to mitigate chronic pain to create the possibility for genuine healing and recovery. A story of a great act of resistance: a Black woman choosing herself.
>I took an inorganic chemistry exam the same day that a grand jury failed to charge two police officers with the murder of Breonna Taylor. That day, my body inhaled molecules of white supremacy as they seeped out of my computer from that proctored Zoom room. They entered my bloodstream and catalyzed a metabolism that would allow for the invasion of my body by a violently infectious life form.
"if we see that minorities are underrepresented relative to their proportion of the greater population, this is good evidence for racism" - That's only true if the underrepresented minorities have equal interest in and ability to join the population in question. Charles Murray has spent much of his career making the case that that isn't so. (This is not a claim about genetics - the effect might be entirely due to culture, but seems to be real nonetheless.)
The very idea that subgroups of humans (races, ethnicities, genders, ...) might, on average, differ from one another in *any* way has become taboo on the left (one wonders how the "racists" are supposed to know who to discriminate against, if the subgroups are all identical).
If point (1) (per your summary) is wrong, then all the other points that follow from it are wrong as well.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/10/22/golding-pre-med-letter-of-resignation/
>While this isn’t just another story about the toxicity of pre-med culture, getting weeded out, or leaving my academic path for some earth-shattering love of another aspiration, it is a story of how white supremacy lives and breathes in each of our bodies, spreading between each of us — body to body — like contagion. It is a story of trying to mitigate chronic pain to create the possibility for genuine healing and recovery. A story of a great act of resistance: a Black woman choosing herself.
>I took an inorganic chemistry exam the same day that a grand jury failed to charge two police officers with the murder of Breonna Taylor. That day, my body inhaled molecules of white supremacy as they seeped out of my computer from that proctored Zoom room. They entered my bloodstream and catalyzed a metabolism that would allow for the invasion of my body by a violently infectious life form.