Will,
You probably have some older relatives who got driven out of their neighborhoods by crime. Millions of people were driven out. They'd probably appreciate you asking them about what happened to them as long as you listen quietly and don't start screaming at them about how racist they are.
02.10.2025 08:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
After all, the 14th Amendment mandates "the unequal protection of the laws," so how can the Trump Administration constitutionally impose the equal protection of the laws?
12.09.2025 10:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dear Mayor Mamdani:
I'm not an African-American like you, but just as you were born in Africa, I was born in America. So, after you get elected, can you help me get my casino? The Bureau of Indian Affairs doesn't think I'm a real native American, but you could explain it for me.
06.07.2025 00:14 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0
Dear Mayor Mamdani:
I'm not an African-American like you, but just as you were born in Africa, I was born in America. So, after you get elected, can you help me get my casino? The Bureau of Indian Affairs doesn't think I'm a real native American, but you could explain it for me.
06.07.2025 00:14 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0
Dear Mayor Mamdani:
I'm not an African-American like you, but just as you were born in Africa, I was born in America. So, after you get elected, can you help me get my casino? The Bureau of Indian Affairs doesn't think I'm a real native American, but you could explain it for me.
06.07.2025 00:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dear Mayor Mamdani:
I'm not an African-American like you, but just as you were born in Africa, I was born in America. So, after you get elected, can you help me get my casino? The Bureau of Indian Affairs doesn't think I'm a real native American, but you could explain it for me.
06.07.2025 00:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So, Zohran, before you applied to college as "Black or African American," did you have your mom ask her leading man Denzel Washington if in America you really qualified for affirmative action as an African American?
What did Denzel reply?
05.07.2025 08:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 9 π 3
Most Descendants of American Slaves are from a quite genetically homogeneous West African/Bantu Expansion ancestry.
11.06.2025 05:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Ghosts of Africa
Can 2018βs tsunami of DNA data on the origins of human biodiversity help ...
You hear people say that a lot, but it's misleading, as Harvard superstar geneticist David Reich has pointed out:
www.takimag.com/article/ghos...
11.06.2025 00:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The top 16 Dominicans have more career Wins Above Replacement than the top Mexican, Fernando Valenzuela.
Is that 100% due to nurture? Really?
That seems an awfully extremist position to insist upon, compared to more moderate theory that both nature and nurture play a role.
10.06.2025 21:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Bluesky seems to have more cat pictures and Twitter more cat videos. I wonder if that's a capacity issue, or just Bluesky's general style of being more genteel and aged.
10.06.2025 20:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Wow, BS is really the place to go to find scintillating intellectual debate about the findings of the human sciences! I can barely keep up with all the volleys back and forth of challenging facts and brilliant logic.
10.06.2025 20:34 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A Matter of Tone
Can racial gaps in cognitive skills narrow?
Possibly. After all, we have seen ...
For instance, we now finally have the technology to do the kind of racial admixture studies of their correlation with IQ that meet the standards Margaret Mead proposed in 1926. This could have falsified once and for all the nature and nurture moderate position:
www.takimag.com/article/a-ma...
10.06.2025 19:36 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The nature plus nurture moderates who advocate some combination of nature and nurture have seen their stance survive a number of Popperian attempts at falsification over the generations. The 100% nature extremists tend to explain away unwelcome findings with new rationalizations.
10.06.2025 19:36 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
But why do these pervasive racial gaps in average cognitive performance exist? The extremist dogma is that the cause must be 100% nurture, while the moderate view is that the cause is some combination of nature and nurture.
10.06.2025 19:36 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Minnesota guy.
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