If Mort Divine ruled the world

[Dak]

His claim is that the problem lies ....... with .......the unwarranted belief that literature scholars were experts in every field (since every field employs representation).

Well at a minimum I can likely agree here.

 

[Dak]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/academics-truth-justice/574165/

We have not tackled the question of how scholarship — in journal articles and books — amplifies the reputation and credibility of people who do not deserve that recognition.

One implication of this argument is that scholarly recognition should hinge not only on a scholar’s contribution to advancing human knowledge, or his utility to present and future scholars, but on his character.

Not content to merely argue against the value of herself in academia, she suggests that the level of navel gazing has blown through all methods of measurement:

In my case, the specific revise-and-resubmit instructions from the editor essentially said: Cite this guy, and pay particular attention to his contributions. A friend offered a somewhat sketchy solution: Do what the editor wanted so that when he sent the revised manuscript back to reviewers, they would see I had followed their instructions and added the requisite citations. Then, my friend said, when I got the manuscript back before final publication, surreptitiously remove the citations.

 

[Dak]

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/11/peaceful-violent-protests-effective.html

Are peaceful or violent protests more effective at achieving policy change? I study the effect of protests during the Civil Rights Era on legislator votes in the US House. Using a fixed-effects specification, my identifying variation is changes within the congressional district over time. I find that peaceful protests made legislators vote more liberally, consistent with the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. By contrast, violent protests backfired and made legislators vote more conservatively. The effect of peaceful protests was limited to civil rights-related votes. The effect of violent protests extended to welfare-related votes. I explore alternative explanations for these results and show that the results are robust to them. Congressional districts where incumbents were replaced responded more strongly. Furthermore, congressional districts with a larger population share of whites responded more strongly. This is consistent with a signaling model of protests where protests transmitted new information to white voters but not to black voters.

Turns out the data has backed up one half of my longstanding critique on riots.

 

[The Ozzman]

Posted on the official Trump Facebook lmao

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Why tho

 

[CiG]

Haven't been keeping up with JBP but this interview seems to be getting shared around a lot. This tiny clip is pretty interesting because she goes from defending a Burmese comedian because he was arrested for a joke to literally condemning Count Dankula's Nazi pug joke because she doesn't agree that he's a comedian... wot?





Why is it that only slimy cunts interview this guy? Are they intentionally trying to fuel the "SJW GETS REKT PWND LOL" Youtube videos and make JBP more money etc?

 

[Dak]

If anyone would like a daily dose of cancer, follow Umair Haque on Medium. I had to google him to make sure it wasn't just a bot; he puts out an opinion piece or more a day(!) rehashing the same thing(s, but of course). With these articles as evidence, his thinking/product is so poor that vapid polemic doesn't do them justice. That such an intellectual troglodyte is on some "Thinker" list is evidence of the profound intellectual decay in the West.

 

[Dak]

https://marginalrevolution.com/marg...rn-less-men-evidence-train-bus-operators.html

If this was a Vox headline, it would read "The Wage Gap, explained."

 

[Dak]

In addition:
http://ratio.se/app/uploads/2016/09/ls_ideology_insights_gender_labor_275.pdf

Productivity differences between men and women have also been found in matched employer-employee data from Denmark, where women on average are found to be less productive than men (Gallen, 2015). Gallen finds that mothers are paid much lower wages than men, but according to her findings, mothers’ estimated productivity gap completely explains their pay gap (Gallen, 2015, p. 1).
.....................
constructivists risk overstating the causal force of social constraints, in ways analogous to how rationalists overstate free choice. Indeed, in gender sociology this risk is no mere possibility; rather, it has reached a point where scholars overstate the extent to which women (and men) are ruled by socialization in making their choices. In social science, theories should be used to make sense of reality, but they also need to respond to and be kept in check by empirical reality. Holding on to an oversimplified theory of gender is damaging and will continue to hurt the long-standing reputation of sociology.

Unrelated:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1809351

This is an example of why the left can't be taken seriously on gun control.

Researcher: Twice as many children die from firearms in states with lenient gun laws

The headline is misleading to begin with, as a perusal of the data will show. "Children" include teenagers up to the ages of 16. So these aren't all accidents. Also, the differences in injury rates are negligible as are the total death numbers. With the differences between injuries and death, that sounds like some differences in healthcare systems.

In this study, analysis showed regions with high average Brady scores (Northeast and West) were associated with 7.54 injuries per 100,000 children, while rates in low Brady scores regions (Midwest and South) had 8.30 injuries per 100,000 children.

So, actually negligible statistical differences. Furthermore:

Annually, there were approximately 2,715 pediatric firearm fatalities; 62.1% were homicides and 31.4% were suicides.

For the deaths, sounds like gang and domestic violence to me, not toddlers finding daddy's gun. Out of a country of 300+ million guns and the same number of people, 850 "kids" on average per year find one to commit suicide with. Guess we gotta ditch the Second Amendment!

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

 

[arg]

Didn’t listen to a single word that came out of her mouth, she’s hot and should just become a hooker

 

[CiG]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... spot on, except for the part about the conservatives being the wolves.

 

[CiG]

Malcolm X himself would probably be considered a conservative by today's standards.

Edit: Uncle Hotep rules.



"Trayvon Martin would have been 23 years old, could have voted..."

 

[CiG]

@Mort Divine @Einherjar86 @Black Orifice @Funerary_Doom

As the main leftists on GMD I was wondering if you could answer a question for me: why do so many people on the left (usually gender and race activists) use the phrase "bodies of colour" often in the same sentence as "people of colour" which seems to imply that not all bodies are people or something? It sounds really strange to me, is there a reason for reducing a person to a body in the rhetoric?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

wtf is a body of colour

 

[CiG]

Here's an example of what I mean:



Skip to 3:20.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

AAAAMMMMMAAAAYYYYYYZZIN.

love that guy. ARE YOU A SLUT?!

 

[The Ozzman]

wtf is a body of colour

A fucking stupid term for made up bullshit

 

[CiG]

Prior to 2015 when I still considered myself a feminist/SJW I never ever said "bodies of colour" so I can't even refer to my old vocabulary to understand it. It's such a strange example of disembodying an individual from their physical self. Way more dehumanizing than the NPC meme IMO.