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Academic piracy here. Social science: Substack: Nothing here represents Rutgers.

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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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"the biggest benefit of a paid subscription is that you [help]...resist the extremist turn of academia and maintain islands of integrity in a sea of academic political corruption." How? I've dedicated the $ to projects, not my pockets.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Introducing: The Activism to Academia to Activism Pipeline
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Nazism has been thoroughly discredited and stigmatized (for good reasons). But Marxism, which has arguably wreaked even more damage (albeit they had more time), is treated as a respectable and serious set of ideas. Why? (please, no dismissiveness like "leftists are all idiots")
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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2 + 2 = A ham sandwich Proof: Take 2 slices of ham and put them between 2 slices of bread = ham sandwich.
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@guardian
The Guardian
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Barack Obama calls out 'politically woke' social media generation
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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The 1776 Project When African American scholars and public intellectuals lead the quest for truth and universal (not identity based) human rights: Correcting the errors and biases in the NYTimes 1619 Project and fighting wokeness, one fact at a time.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Now they need to fire the DEI admin who incited the disruption & suspend the admins who failed to enforce their no disruption policy & suspend the students who disrupted.
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Steve McGuire
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Stanford issues a letter of apology to Judge Duncan:
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America is a white supremacy. Cancel culture does not exist. There are no violent protests. Social Justice movements cannot possibly be authoritarian. 2+2=5.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Another letter of recommendation, another school using commitment to social justice as a basis for grad admissions. Boston College.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Words are violence. Destruction of property is not violence. "Free speech" is a dogwhistle for racism, transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, and sexism. But for discrimination, all groups would be exactly equal on all outcomes. 2+2=5.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Another dose of the wisdom of Woke by @TitaniaMcGrath . "If you don't want to be censored, don't say the wrong things. Its as simple as that."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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I started by studying political biases. Then the biases went on steroids.
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Dorian Schuyler Abbot
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This is a presentation given by Lee Jussim ( @PsychRabble ), a psychology professor at Rutgers, recently at UCSD. In it he reviews extensive data demonstrating the ongoing radicalization of academia, as well as presents a model for the process.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Apparently, chimps socially construct nearly identical sex differences regarding violent killings as do humans.
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Steve Stewart-Williams
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Humans: Males commit 95% of homicides and are 79% of homicide victims Chimps: Males commit 92% of chimpicides and are 73% of chimpicide victims
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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What is Cancel Culture? This:
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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This is a riot. When surveyed college students who endorsed "From the River to the Sea" find out what it means, many/most, said, "Whoopsie, never mind."
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Joel Fish
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The modern university in a nutshell:
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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In honor of this stupidity, I thread here an incomplete list of the White administrators and faculty at elite U's that have been forced out for: 1. Ethics violations 2. No ethics violation at all. 🧵
@KeishaBlain
Dr. Keisha N. Blain
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“No amount of wealth, achievements, accolades, or notoriety will offer safety and protection in an anti-black world. Black excellence will never be enough…”
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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In other election news, every drug decriminalization referendum on ballot, from marijuana to shrooms to heroin, is passing, across the country, in red, blue and purple places.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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@wil_da_beast630 "7 of the wealthiest 8 ethnic groups in the U.S. today are...of color...the biggest threat to racial comity today may well be not actual bigotry...but...the false promotion of narratives about racial conflict that verge on conspiracy..."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Falsifiable prediction: By the end of 2021, at least one major journal in science, psychology, or the social sciences will publish a policy of sending papers on controversial topics (racism, sexism, transgender issues) to activist groups as part of "peer" review.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Who knew that @TitaniaMcGrath did book reviews? "Murray** is a perfect example of the type of privileged white man who gets all defensive when you point out what an evil scumbag he is." **New book: The Madness of Crowds
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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2 + 2 = 5.
@RealYeyoZa
Yeyo
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Biologists attribute human sexual dimorphism to millions of years of sexual selection. Gender scholars blame birth certificates.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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"I had colleagues take me aside and say 'don't publish this, it will ruin your career.'" Which is exactly what Claudine Gay tried to do Fryer. This is a failed attempt (only bc of Fryer's integrity) at scientific censorship by scientists. This, not "replication" is how political
@TheFP
The Free Press
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“We didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings.” Economist Roland Fryer tells @bariweiss at @uaustinorg about the 2016 paper on policing bias that led to his need for an “armed guard” for over a month and the academics who told him not to publish.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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How is this not completely obvious? Why does it need to be restated, repeatedly? (though it clearly does).
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Naval
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Free people make free choices. Free choices mean you get unequal outcomes. You can have freedom, or you can have equal outcomes. You can’t have both.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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NYTimes piece on slavery & capitalism gets all of the details right (slavery was a horror) and nearly the entire big picture wrong. Societies w/o slavery are almost always vastly wealthier&more successful than those w/it.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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My Depravity Began with Fiddler on the Roof Notes from a Witch Hunt, 2.0.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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CRT's logic is circular. Why have so many POC advanced on mass scale? Because they have been "granted Whiteness." How do you know Nigerians, Chinese, Koreans, Pakistanis, etc have been "granted Whiteness"? Because they are so successful. Whoopsie!
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@UjuAnya
Uju Anya
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CRT tenet 4: Interest convergence. This says POC can only advance on mass scale in US institutions, society when their interests converge with white people's (when whatever benefits POC also benefits whites). Eg, white women are greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action. 9/13
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Jesse Singal, one of the most courageous independent science journalists out there, takes on one of academics in the top 1% of those politicizing & delegitimizing academia. This tweet nails it. Tage Rai once was an editor at apex journal, Science, which tells you all you need to
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Jesse Singal
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@tage_rai @JonHaidt Tage, I mean this with all due respect: You are a liar, and you have been a liar for years, and it's only because you project the "correct" politics that your peers are too scared to publicly affix that much-deserved label to you.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Most everyone in academia thinks they'd be Galileo. Instead, most are more likely to have egged on his Inquisitors. #againstacademia
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Hoax or ... ? Poe's Law in Academia (remember, this is a person w/a PhD getting published in a peer reviewed journal, so at least 3 other PhDs, 2 editors & a reviewer, said, "this is great, accept and publish!"). @HPluckrose @peterboghossian @ConceptualJames ht @JewelEldora
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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CNN now fully buys into the full "Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship" & universities analysis that @HPluckrose , @ConceptualJames & @peterboghossian warned about &, at the time, were dismissed by most of academia. "Colleges wanted to make
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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The great thing about supposed rightwing histrionics about CRT (I don't attend much to rw media, so haven't seen them, but even if "histrionics" is fair), is that it has motivated some CRT advocates to lay out "what they really think." Its as bad as critics have been saying.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Cambridge thoroughly embraces free speech and academic freedom. Like UChicago's President, recently. IDK if the tide is turning, but the more bulwarks against illiberalism, the better.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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This is such a great story. America, capitalism, merit, diversity, and individualism all on full display at their best.
@ankithharathi
Ankith Harathi
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A janitor making $4/hour walked into a Fortune 500 company boardroom. Shaking, he took a seat opposite the CEO. "So I had an idea..." he nervously began. Years later, that idea would become an iconic consumer brand and make him worth ~$20M. Here's how that meeting went 🧶👇
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Bought it. $8 Kindle. The first 2 pages delivered $8 worth. 2 quotes: "social media has made it possible to show how virtuous you are without having to do anything at all." and:
@TitaniaMcGrath
Titania McGrath
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Out today in the USA! 🇺🇸✊ WOKE: A GUIDE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE is the only book you’ll ever require. “Genius” - Daily Express “Genius” - Unherd “Genius” - Spectator “Genius” - Daily Mail “Cheap” - Guardian
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Over 99.99% of police interactions with those stopped do not end with anyone injured or imprisoned. Over 99% of cases of Covid do not end in death. Over 99.9% of professors do not lose jobs due to outrage mobs. 2 + 2 = 5.
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The Hill
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Over 90 percent of protests this summer were peaceful, report shows
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Riddle: Why is this Tweet, but, especially, the photo, a thing of utterly perfect yet amusing beauty?
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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"Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money?" @bariweiss covers our research on how dark money from foreign countries, especially Middle Eastern & authoritarian ones goes hand-in-glove with politically corrupt universities. 🧵summary. 1/n
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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"They do not even pretend to provide evidence to back up their accusations, they just declare that you have done something despicable. "No one will take this seriously" you think. Wrong." Just posted.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Remember when Jeffrey Sachs argued that: 1. There is no free speech crisis on campus & (sic) 2. The (nonexistent) free speech crisis was over? No? (see below). Thread 1/n W/(dare I say it?) data that "disrupts" that narrative or (dare I say it?) a "close look at the evidence."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Periodic dose of the insight of @TitaniaMcGrath : "I learnt early on that my private education and frequent family holidays to Montenegro and the Maldives were merely a ruse by which my parents could distract me from my oppression." from Woke.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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I love this sentence, from Wikipedia. The last 9 words explain sooo much. "Robespierre was eventually undone by his obsession with the vision of an ideal republic and his indifference to the human costs of installing it..."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Shall we "follow the science"? A short thread of sources on Things That Do Not Work* to Increase Social Justice: Trigger Warnings Diversity Trainings Implicit Bias Trainings. *=Tests of their effectiveness fail to show any. 1/n
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Pirate Strike! Paper shown JUST accepted at bigtime psych journal (Perspectives on Psych Sci). On the disingenuousness of "diversity" as deployed in psychology & academia. (who, besides your fav pirate could get such a paper accepted)? 🧵
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Social Justice vs. Capitalism
@AlecStapp
Alec Stapp
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Who could have predicted
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Quote about women is from Mao Zedong, whose soaring rhetoric about women was accompanied by relentless exploitation of peasant women for sex. I wonder how much Biden is aware of either that the quote is from Mao, or what it camouflaged.
@CBSNews
CBS News
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Biden praises growing number of women graduating from U.S. Coast Guard Academy, noting Class of 2021 is over one-third female: "There's a saying...'Women hold up half the world.' It's an absolutely stupid position not to make sure sure they represent at least half of what we do."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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80% of the Implicit Association Test is error, as per new study. "the IAT was shown to be inadequately honed to provide insights into our implicit biases and its ‘usefulness in research and application’ is questionable, if not at times, potentially misleading."
@DegenRolf
Rolf Degen
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"More Error than Attitude: Implicit Association Test scores are predominantly composed of measurement error not implicit attitudes."
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"There is no indigenous astronomy. There is no Lebanese Jewish astronomy. There is just astronomy." @GadSaad at Stanford Academic Freedom Conference
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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NYTimes staff freaks out over Sen. Cotton's call for order as "fascism" leading to editor resignation. Then it posts a justification for actual (Chinese) fascism: w/repression, internments, rape-by-policy, and ethnic cleansing. NYT staff? Silence.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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" liberal perceivers judged a conservative job candidate to be more prejudiced than a liberal candidate, whereas conservative perceivers saw no difference between the two candidates. This result is ironic given the level of prejudice exhibited by liberals in the present study."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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The massive political skew of academia is one of the most replicable findings in all of ... academia! What Replication Crisis?
@MattGrossmann
Matt Grossmann
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Social scientists are far more likely to be Democratic partisans & place themselves on the ideological left, even in economics (though a bit less so) My survey of major research university faculty, n=1141
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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What is #bropenscience ? A set of academic lies&distortions claiming that (especially white) men have hijacked the Science Reform Movement & prevent younger & "protected" scientists from having a say. In reality? It is SJW academics seeking to shut down criticism of their allies.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Is The Gulag Archipelago going to be required reading?
@MarkTreyger718
Mark Treyger 🍎
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We in the @NYCCouncil are calling to deepen the @NYCSchools curriculum on genocides, hate, and intolerance throughout history, with a focus on how unchecked hate led to the Holocaust. We must have a comprehensive, school-by-school approach that is citywide.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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And now, your periodic does of @TitaniaMcGrath 's Woke. A poem, in full: I, Victim
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Let's interrogate this NYTimes claim, shall we? 3 Tweet followup Thread.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Liberals massively massively massively overestimate the number of unarmed Black people shot by police. Conservatives do, too, but not quite as massively.
@ZachG932
Zach Goldberg
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1/n A recent nationally representative survey commissioned by Skeptic Mag asked respondents to estimate the number of unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019. Overall, 44% of liberals guessed 1,000 or more as compared to 20% of conservatives (this calculation is based on the..
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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JFC! Bo Winegard has been fired from a tenure track job for UnSpecified Flying Reasons that are most plausibly interpreted as "Violated Political Sensitivities of Some Academics." Some say its getting better. I don't see it.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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In which I simply post Tweets by sane lefties and academics who have, shall we say, seen the light. A thread. Feel free to add to it. Noah Smith, Bloomberg, ex-academic: 1/n
@Noahpinion
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Honestly, me too. I thought the leftist antisemitism thing was mainly a UK problem. But it turned out to be a problem in America too, and I didn't see the depth of it until these past two weeks.
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"They want to ban teaching about slavery." "Its not actually CRT." "Conservatives are creating a moral panic." "Its just diversity training." "Education is always political."
@fairforall_org
Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR)
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Breaking: @SLF_Liberty has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Evanston School District. The school engaged in racial segregation, depicted “whiteness” as a devil, and taught that whites are inherently oppressive. Read more here: 1/6
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"It's aaallliiiiiiive!" "...the most dramatic claims about it have been debunked or...shown to be dubious&scientifically controversial. These are not firm grounds on which to sell the public on the power&prevalence of unconscious racism or trainings..."
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3min clip. The great @CHSommers "Fainting couch feminism" "Women are in the military but need 'safe spaces' when I come to speak?" Retelling this story: "A student told me she was mini-raped: 'A guy walked by me and told me 'nice legs.'"
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YAF
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"This is madness." @CHSommers sends snowflakes screaming to their safe spaces for saying feminism is about actual equality, not punishing men 👇🏻
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American Psychology Association moves towards having "positionality statements" appear on its "scientific" peer reviewed publications. What, you ask, is a "Positionality Statement"? Its right out of CRT/intersectionality/GS/AppliedPoMo: 1/n
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'Over 100 faculty members now have their signatures displayed on a website for a new faculty group, Faculty for Yale, which “insist[s] on the primacy of teaching, learning and research as distinct from advocacy and activism.”
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My newest: These findings "should give anyone claiming that discrimination is powerful and pervasive, an endemic feature of modern life that infects all or most interactions, serious pause."
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10 stages of genocide
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One of my favorite things about Twitter are my interactions with folks I'd never know otherwise. Truck drivers. Dishwashers. Stay at home moms. Community college students. They are all here & way more interesting than some of you may think. Thank you.
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Deconstructing CRT Tenets as advocated by a CRT proponent: The Whoopsie! Collection I have taken each of several tenets, debunked them, and flagged the debunking with "Whoopsie!" Here, I bring them together. 1/n
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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"Its ideological litmus tests all the way down." My newest Substack entry, on DEI statements now required by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology to submit proposals for presentations at their annual conference.
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@LeJaeger @clairlemon @PsychToday @Quillette Dictionaries have literally begun to include "figuratively" or "metaphorically," as one of the definitions of "literally." I kid you not. The world needs The Orwelexicon.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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What about defunding academia? When did the people's taxes become responsible for subsidizing others' political activism, especially when it deceptively masquerades as "scholarship?"
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Woke Whites have delusions of discrimination. Literally. They guessed discrim is at far higher levels than in reality here. & more than black liberals. And more than conservatives (up the thread). You can see this pattern in real life regularly.
@ZachG932
Zach Goldberg
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For those wondering how the black and black liberal resume-callback estimates fared those of white liberals, the former were also significantly more accurate.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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The idea that faculty engage in witch-hunting outrage mobs that seek to punish those whose ideas they oppose is nutcase rightwing propaganda. Just ask Noah Carl, Rebecca Tuvel, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Amy Wax, Sam Abrams, Bruce Gilley, Eric Rasmussen, Napoleon Chagnon.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Dear Academia, your loudest voices have been adamantly proclaiming that everything is politics & power for years. It took awhile but conservatives have finally gotten the message.
@realchrisrufo
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
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NYT: "It looks as though New College leaders are simply trying to replace a culture they find politically hostile with one meant to be more congenial." Rufo:
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1. @profmjb models how to respond to a cancellation attack. This essay is top of the charts. 2. Published in @bariweiss 's wildly successful @thefp , created when she was driven from the NYT. The banishers have no idea what they have inspired.
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New post. "This short entry has a single purpose: to communicate that the authoritarian mob-like behavior of academics in psychology was completely predictable...The reason I characterize the behavior as “predictable” is because I predicted it."
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I'm with Titania. Let's print out all books causing "harm"** and add in the articles appearing in Nazi outlets like @Quillette and @AreoMagazine and then burn them in a huge pyre. ** most books.
@TitaniaMcGrath
Titania McGrath
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I’m going to organise a protest against that hideous nazi terf JK Rowling. In order to oppose her obvious fascism, I suggest we meet at midnight and burn as many copies of her books as possible. If you don’t own any, they’re all available on Amazon.
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Brutal essay, Jerry Coyne: "the writer claims that I have effectively “put the student in danger.” I’m sorry, but that’s ridiculous. If you feel “endangered” when someone criticizes your published ideas, then you shouldn’t publish your ideas..."
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Titania bravely defends a POC, a victim, from those #punchingdown , and perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
@TitaniaMcGrath
Titania McGrath
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I can’t help but think that all this criticism of Robert Mugabe is just another attempt to demonise people of colour.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
At a conference. Speaker right next to me, quoting Pinker: "Academia is the left pole. On the N.Pole, everywhere is south. From academia? Everywhere looks rightwing."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
SciAm Essay by @sbkaufman : "rarely do we consider the harm that could be caused by ignoring sex differences! 1 can think of many ways in which pretending something doesn't exist may actually cause greater harm...than accepting the facts of the matter"
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
3 years
Fanatic commitment to dogma poisons everything.
@clairlemon
Claire Lehmann
3 years
The late Christopher Hitchens said that religion poisons everything, but looking at the state of discourse in the USA one can safely say that politics poisons everything.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
4 years
Did you realize that there will be a "debate" at an upcoming Political Psych Conference (preconf, SPSP)? "On what?" you ask. On whether left wing authoritarianism exists. You know, because the answer is not obvious (to leftwing academics). 1/4
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
Woke SJ Twacademia eating its own, in real time. Valerie's feed is pretty woke-but this exchange echoes the "logic" that sent many of the revolutionary Bolsheviks to The Gulag. I'd offer to help, but she blocked James, so she'll have to figure it out on her own. Or suffer.
@ConceptualJames
James Lindsay, anti-Communist
5 years
Dr. Valerie Horsley is in the process of learning that one simply cannot be woke enough. I'd eager she has a fair chance of losing her job over stating simply and truly enough that the pool of applicants is small.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
To my conservative friends, you will not want to miss this. I have no idea how it got into a tiny socialist outlet that you'd reasonably expect to be dogmatic&nuts, but this article? An unbelievably good debunking of much of the NYTimes 1619 Project w/o even trying.
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Christina Hoff Sommers
5 years
A reporter at an obscure socialist website asked the celebrated Civil War historian James McPherson (Princeton) what he thought of the New York Times’ #1619Project Instead of running for cover, he shared his thoughts. 👇
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
7 months
700 Harvard faculty sign letter in support of #Claudinegay . It calls on Harvard to resist "political pressure that are at odds with its commitment to academic freedom." The same body (tho many not the same people) that screamed for Larry Summers to be fired. The same body who
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
4 years
I have, sadly, now added Bo Winegard's @EPoe187 's firing to the list of academics targeted for punishment by other academics for their ideas. My count is 18 since 2017, including 8 in 2019 and 2 in 2020. It getting worse, not better.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
4 years
Every statement here is true: Most protests are peaceful. Most drunk drivers don't kill anyone. Most parents are not abusive. Most police have not killed anyone. Most drug use does not lead to addiction. Most dictators have not committed genocide.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
"Concerns about whether the core tenets of Whiteness Studies are conceptually sound ... or falsifiable are therefore dismissed as exhibitions of white fragility. The upshot is a handy fragility trap arising from a conceited presumption of infallibility."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
3 years
I am now outing myself. A year ago, my academic identity changed from "scholar" to "scholar-activist." I am now an activist seeking to defend academic freedom, free thought, free expression, and free inquiry. This event is open to the public, but you have to register.
@LeFrakForum
The LeFrak Forum
3 years
Please join us on 4/8-4/10 for our (Zoom) conference, "Freedom of Speech and Intellectual Diversity on Campus"!
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
4 years
At UCBerkeley, Diversity Statements are being used for both ideological screening and de facto racial discrimination. Legal challenges on way. Maybe there is no such thing as "reverse" discrimination. But there is such a thing as "discrimination."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
No. Unconscious bias trainings don't work because no one cares whether they work. U's want to avoid liability. Trainers get $ no matter what. Also, define "work." Eliminate bias? Or increase "representation." You achieve the former by focusing on merit. The latter? By lottery.
@drdonnamaria
Donna Maria Blancero she/her/ella
5 years
Your Unconscious Bias Trainings Keep Failing Because You’re Not Addressing Systemic Bias
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
4 years
George Orwell fully understood the implications of Bo Winegard's @EPoe187 firing: "Threats to freedom of speech, writing & action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
Titania's Woke is the best thing to hit the world since Hatshupet decided to be a female Pharoah.
@TitaniaMcGrath
Titania McGrath
5 years
Buy my book and be healed. That’s a command, not a request. 💅🏻 “The book everyone’s talking about” @thetimes “Absolutely brilliant” @newcriterion “The most important book of 2019” @StandpointMag “Titania McGrath is a genius” @spectator
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
3 years
Thread, because I love how history can inform social and political psychology. Trofim Denisovich Lysenko A Man Ahead of His Time in denouncing and punishing scientists for disagreeing with him.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
2 years
Pew Survey: 74% of Americans say race should not be a factor in college admissions.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
1 year
It's Official. The Patriarchy Has Been Smashed. No bias against women in hiring experiments. N>21k, European countries & U.S.).
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
3 years
My newest blog: "nearly half of all American and Canadian academics surveyed support firing colleagues for holding positions such as restricting immigration or believing that women or minorities perform worse in some contexts."
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
4 years
Wow, that was fast. Every political psychologist should read through the replies. Every academic with a shred of willingness to consider the possibility that they are living in political bubbles should read through the replies.
@primalpoly
Geoffrey Miller
4 years
Believe it or not, I've been a registered Democrat for decades, ever since college. Gotta say, the last few weeks have made me rethink things. @DNC no longer seems the natural home for classical liberal centrists like me. 😥
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
Links to some real world examples of equalitarian/political biases leading literatures to be purged of "distasteful" results. From ... psychological science! ("Hey, its science! Are you a science denier?"). Thread ending in END.
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
5 years
How reporting bias, spin, and citation biases purge a literature of negative results. This example is not ideological. Pre-reg prediction: Its worse for politicized results, especially equalitarian ones. ht @SincerelyData
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