If Mort Divine ruled the world

[CiG]

Speaking of, I just heard that most if not all of Jussie Smollett's scenes in the upcoming episodes of Empire have been edited out and shitcanned.

 

[Dak]

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-risk-of-progressives-talking

This story ties into one of my qualms about the way progressives talk about race, and marginalized groups in general, these days: It feels increasingly common for progressives to treat the opinions of elite members of marginalized groups as representative of the groups in question — even though rank-and-file members without platforms may feel quite differently.

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But at the same time, if you’re a progressive who is calling for the Washington football team to change its name, or for Ralph Northam to resign, because of the harm that football team name and that governor did to marginalized people, it should feel very weird that the actual groups most affected mostly disagree with you, no? Or if it doesn’t feel weird, why doesn’t it feel weird? What does it mean to say you hold an opinion out of a desire to protect a given group when members of that group say, in polling, they don’t require your protection on that particular issue?

The broader problem here is that progressive political elites have a bit of a class problem.

Stats included.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Since we're mentioning racism....

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/kkk-leader-death-frank-ancona.html

 

[Einherjar86]

https://quillette.com/2019/02/17/postmodern-philosophy-is-a-debating-strategy/

Dead on, but stops short of following up effectively.

Because how could you possibly live a human life really believing that there is no ultimate truth?

 

[Dak]

I think the point is that no one actually does. Some people just try intellectualize that they do.

 

[Einherjar86]

I get it. I don't agree.

 

[CiG]

 

[The Ozzman]

Damn white people and their.....preference for President

 

[CiG]

Bernie is going to get fucked twice, I can just see it.

 

[EternalMetal]

Feel the Bern.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Damn white people and their.....preference for President

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

 

[Einherjar86]

I'm offended by "a opinion."

 

[Dak]

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Damm SJWs
I don't think this sign even existed until AFTER Obergefell
This is the bathroom door of the bar that I'm sitting in right now

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maga-h...MiMkP6-Yc&ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=63950267

 

[rms]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00611-1

By the end of the study period, 23% of men and 43% of women who had become parents had left full-time STEM employment. They either went part time, switched to non-STEM careers or left the workforce altogether. This compared to 16% of child-free men and 24% of child-free women. The team controlled for potential confounding differences between people with and without children.

Virginia Valian, a psychologist at the City University of New York, says: “The results showing that fathers also leave STEM reinforces the hypothesis that the problem is a structural one, in which dedicated professionals are not expected to have a personal life, and, indeed, are punished for so doing.”

Ami Radunskaya, a mathematician at Pomona College in Claremont, California, who mentors young female mathematicians, says women can become exhausted from constantly having to prove themselves in a professional environment that is, “at best, challenging to everyone and, at worst, openly sexist”.

 

[Einherjar86]

If you're interested, Quanta recently published an interview with a mathematics scholar on this issue:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/caro...g-a-network-of-women-in-mathematics-20190122/

 

[Dak]

I realized then that it was so much more pleasant to be with women.

Replace "women" with "men" and let the quote be from a man. Riots in the streets.

 

[Dak]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/nyregion/renewal-initiative-de-blasio.html

Mayor Bill de Blasio is canceling one of his signature education initiatives, acknowledging that despite spending $773 million he was unable to turn around many long-struggling public schools in three years after decades of previous interventions had also failed.

The end of the initiative, called Renewal, is a blow to Mr. de Blasio, who had hoped that success would bolster his effort to build a national reputation for innovative policies. Urban educators around the country had also looked to Renewal as a model for improving underperforming schools in historically troubled districts, rather than closing them.

Instead, the program has been plagued by bureaucratic confusion and uneven academic results since Mr. de Blasio began it in 2014. Though some of the nearly 100 low-performing public schools have shown better results, many have fallen short of the improvements that Mr. de Blasio predicted. The Renewal label itself caused parents to seek other options, causing enrollment in some schools to plummet.

In other news, water is wet. Wonder what good that 3/4 of a billion dollars could have done if not applied to liberal fantasy projects.