Thread by @KirkegaardEmil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Some people think the implicit association test is a sneaky way to see hidden biases. The researchers being left-wing, mainly those against non-Whites and women. However, a better method is the list experiment. This method was applied to an American sample of 830 Whites in 2008-2009. No hidden bias was found however. Somewhat surprisingly maybe.
What Can We Learn with Statistical Truth Serum? Design and Analysis of the List Experiment"
Former school athletic director gets 4 months in jail in racist AI deepfake case - "A former high school athletics director accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic deepfake of a Maryland principal has been sentenced to four months in jail as part of a plea deal for disrupting school operations. Dazhon Darien, 32, accepted the deal... Darien used AI software to generate a fake recording of former Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert’s voice expressing frustration with Black students and their test-taking abilities. The recording, which was disseminated throughout the school community and shared widely on social media last January, also purported to capture the principal disparaging Jewish people... While fake recordings of political figures and celebrities have surfaced in recent years as the technology becomes more widespread, officials have said the case is among the first examples of AI being used to embarrass someone for personal gain... Other examples of AI-generated audio include robocalls impersonating former President Joe Biden that tried to dissuade Democrats from voting in last year’s New Hampshire primary election. People have also cloned the voices of purportedly kidnapped children over the phone to get ransom money from parents, experts say."
Schoolchildren taught black people built Stonehenge - "Schoolchildren are being taught that black people built Stonehenge as part of “decolonised” history curriculums, a report has found. The claim is made in the book “Brilliant Black British History”, which is still used in schools across the country, according to research by Policy Exchange, the think-tank. Written by Atinuke, the Nigerian-born British author, it says that “Britain was a black country for more than 7,000 years before white people came”. The report has described the book as one example of how the push to “decolonise” or “diversify” history curriculums in schools has “gone too far”. The think-tank found that 83 per cent of secondary schools had changed their history curriculum to “decolonise” it, which usually involves reducing or removing topics deemed too white, male or European... “Numerous cases of poor-quality resources being used to teach contested narratives as fact have been identified. “For example, one book used in classrooms claims black people built Stonehenge, whilst free resources produced by a subject organisation celebrate the genital mutilation of a slave as a form of ‘gender transition’.” The findings went on to reveal that the drive to “decolonise” has meant that “in some cases students struggle to develop a synoptic outline of the national past and are exposed to one-sided and politicised narratives”. Its research showed that key elements of British history have been dropped by schools as fewer than one in five teach the Battle of Agincourt and only 11 per cent include the Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo."
EndMassMigration on X - "Over 80% of schools have "decolonised" their history curriculum, removing topics deemed "too white, male or European". In other words, eradicating our history, denying our culture and lying to children - all to push the mass immigration agenda. Shameful."
"Decolonising" the curriculum means lying to students to demoralise them and undermine national cohesion
Schoolchildren taught black people built Stonehenge as part of drive to "decolonise" school curriculum : r/uknews - "You're getting mad at "the left" because of an article by a right-wing, populist newspaper that makes money by making people mad. I think it's the newspaper sewing division that's the problem, and I feel sorry for the people who fall for it :("
Classic left wing logical fallacy of refusing to believe something because of the messenger. If the Telegraph quotes Stephen Hawking having published a peer reviewed paper saying that the earth is round, that means it's flat. Of course, if the left wing media tries to make people mad by lying, you're a fascist for pointing it out
Meme - Skeptic Research Center Team @SkepResCenter: "Nearly 1 in 5 people say they would end a relationship with a family member over political disagreements. But among Gen Z and Millennial Liberals, that number is 1 in 3 (see graph below). Article on "Who Would Sever Ties with Friends and Family Over Politics?" coming soon..."
""I would end my relationship with a family member if they expressed a political view that I find inappropriate."
Agreement by Political Orientation and Generation
Gen Z: Liberal 36%, Moderate 19%, Conservative 21%
Millennial: Liberal 36%, Moderate 14%, Conservative 19%
Gen X: Liberal 21%, Moderate 9%, Conservative 11%
Boomer: Liberal 16%, Moderate 7%, Conservative 8%"
Timur Kuran on X - "In every US cohort, leftists stand out as unusually intolerant of other views."
Interestingly, older people are also more tolerant than younger ones. This is reflected in the flippantness of "ok, boomer"
Meme - "Look what my lil sister sent me from her homework assignment"
"invoked with these different Colors? complete the chart below listing the colors and their emotional assoctation.
Color. Emotional Association
red. mad
blue. sad
yellow. happy
white. privilege
Think about how these colors are symbolized in general or in American culture. For example. the color pink announces that"
Meme - ""I didn't think the 'We Hate White Men' Party would hate me for being a white man!"
BREAKING: DNC panel has voted to oust David Hogg and nullify his victory because it violated gender diversity rules."
Leopards eating people's faces is only when it pushes the left wing agenda
Gad Saad on X - "Me: Do you care about protecting your culture?
Progressive: I'm not a racist.
Me: Do you care about protecting your religion?
Progressive: I'm not a racist.
Me: Do you care about protecting your values?
Progressive: I'm not a racist.
Me: Do you care about protecting your daughters?
Progressive: I'm not a racist.
Me: Do you care about protecting your children's freedoms?
Progressive: I'm not a racist.
[When the greatest imaginable calamity that you can imagine is that you might be called a bigot, you will lose your society.]"
Meme - Daniel Concannon @TooWhiteToTweet: "“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"
"There Is No Such Thing as White People"
"There is no 'white' race"
"Dear White People, You Do Not Exist"
"The invention of the White Race"
"Why "White People" don't exist"
"White People Do Not Exist AM"
"The pernicious myth of a Caucasian race"
"There's No Such Thing As White People"
People more willing to empathise with groups than individuals, study finds - "Researchers found people chose to stay objective to individuals compared with when they were faced with a group."
This explains the left wing obsession with group rights, and why to justify their hatred, they need to their hate at groups rather than individuals
Michael Taube: Toronto city staff ignore orders in their quest to rid the city of Henry Dundas - "Imagine this scenario. High-ranking officials make a decision about an important and potentially controversial matter. It was made with the best of intentions, and would hopefully ensure the entire process evolved in a proper and co-ordinated manner. Yet low-ranking officials disagree with the decision and arbitrarily ignore the directive and head in a completely different direction. In spite of this arrogant and rather devious manoeuvre, this strategy somehow moves forward without any discussion or fear of repercussions. Believe it or not, this scenario is was just played out in real time in Toronto. Jennifer Dundas, a lawyer and former CBC political affairs reporter, revealed on Tuesday that Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) “staff have defied the will of the Board of Commissioners in recommending renaming of Dundas Station.” According to her post on X, “Last year, the Board, led by chairperson Jamaal Myers, ordered staff to recommend a process for public consultation. Staff, however, defied the motion. They have brought forward a recommendation to rename the subway stop ‘TMU Station’ with no advance warning, and no public consultations.” This, in effect, means City of Toronto staff “completely ignored this February 2024 order,” Dundas wrote in a separate post , “which specifically directed them to recommend a process for public and stakeholder consultation.”... This is part of a long-standing woke agenda in the city that’s largely supported by left-wing radicals and other fringe rabble-rousers. Toronto city council has spent a not-so-insignificant amount of time, energy and resources the past few years on renaming “ Dundas-linked city assets .”... Dundas’s critics, along with many low-level Toronto city staffers, were furious that he didn’t move to end the British slave trade as quickly as they felt he should have. Hence, they want to remove his name from Dundas Station and replace it with the name of Toronto Metropolitan University. This is the same post-secondary institution where Jewish students reportedly feel harassed and say that, “You can’t be openly Jewish at TMU,” according to a recent report in the National Post . I guess we know where Toronto’s anti-racist priorities truly lie."
Meme - Woe, woe, woe to those who dwe... @Eschatologuy: "Europeans don't belong in North America because they came from Europe. Amerindians belong in America even though they came from Asia. Asians came from Africa. Europeans don't belong in Europe because they came from Africa. Europeans don't belong in Africa"
Meme - CNN @CNN: "Have you ever noticed the popularity of white robots? The reason for these shades of technological white may be racism, according to new research.
Robot racism? Yes, says a study showing humans' biases extend to rob... There is a reason most human-shaped robots are white, say researchers. And the reason is not productive at all"
Ken Bone @kenbone18: "Now imagine spray painting the robots black. CNN headline becomes "owning black robots may be a sign of being pro slavery.""
Why I Am Not a PhD - by Liza Libes - "I used to get into quarrels with my high school math teacher. Every morning, he would stroll into class with a stack of notebooks, a pack of chalk, and a jab at our school’s English department. As a future English major, I felt it was my duty to speak up. The irony was that I had never particularly liked any of our English teachers. They did their part, but they always taught literature through overarching themes: “the failures of capitalism in The Great Gatsby” or “the proto-feminism of The Canterbury Tales.” I didn’t particularly care about such themes, and by the end of high school, I had grown increasingly skeptical of the way my teachers approached literature. Instead, I turned my sights on America’s liberal-arts university system, where I hoped to find a more open-minded environment. I dreamed of becoming an English professor. When I got to Columbia University—one of the world’s leading institutions for English literary scholarship—my fascination with the literary world initially grew. In my freshman year, I sat around my dorm reciting poems to my peers and conjugating Latin verbs in preparation to read Virgil and Ovid. For a fleeting moment, I was enamored—I didn’t have to take a single math class, and my peers had heard of Dante.
Meme - "LGBTQ+ students graduate with an average of $14,769 more student loan debt than their non-LGBTQ++ classmates."
"Don't attribute malice to things easily explained by stupidity"
"Turns out a degree in underwater basket weaving isn't economically viable. But they'Il be sure to remind you that they're more educated than you when discussing literally any topic in the comments"
"I'm guessing they are indecisive and end up changing what they want half way through"
"They're the ones picking their own degrees"
Anthony Connor on X - "Question! If we divide 123 genders by white supremacy How much climate change do we have?"
John James on X - "As a gay man, I don’t need an entire MONTH of narcissism to “celebrate” my sexuality - my gay friends feel the same. The ONLY people wanting “Pride Month” are militant male trans activists who want access to lesbian & women’s spaces! It’s about time corporates listened to us!"
Christopher Dummitt: Systemic discrimination is legal in Canada - "All of this was made legal in the Section 15(2) of the Charter back when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the premiers negotiated it in 1981 and then the same dispensation was written into various provincial human rights legislation. It makes Canada quite distinct from the United States where these programs have a much more dubious legal basis. The question that rarely gets asked, though, is: how long will they continue? The special provision that allowed these discriminatory programs to exist was clear: they are meant to make up for the disadvantages of past discrimination and its lingering consequences. It was never meant to be an ongoing and never-ending exception to equal treatment. The assumption in the 1970s and ’80s was that most forms of discrimination could be eliminated from Canada’s legal framework and then, over time, from daily life. And discrimination (except for affirmative action programs) is illegal in Canada and has been so for a couple of generations. You could claim, and many do, that there are still disadvantaged groups in Canada, and that informal kinds of discrimination continue, even despite their illegality. You could still have the historic ongoing impacts of past discrimination. Indeed, this is the basis for the continued claim to need affirmative action programs. The question is: how long will this remain the case? And, even more importantly, what counts as evidence for disadvantage? Who gets to decide whether current-day disadvantage comes from discriminatory treatment or not? The reality is that different social groups have different social outcomes. As Thomas Sowell pointed out years ago, it would be bizarre to think that they wouldn’t. The question is: are these differences a result of choices, cultures and random chance — or are they a more nefarious expression of discrimination, either systemic or outright? One of the odd things to happen in our intellectual circles — our universities and even our law schools — is that this question is rarely asked with an open-ended curiosity as to what the answer might be. One wonders whether it even comes up when employers or universities set about establishing discriminatory affirmative action programs. Or, more likely, are they working from a consensus within the institution that there really are disadvantaged groups — and that this is obviously caused by discrimination? We should be clear: it’s entirely possible that disadvantages are caused by subtle forms of discrimination that continue despite Canada’s now very equal legal system. It’s certainly possible — and the idea ought to get a fair hearing. But in many progressive circles today, it’s now considered rude to even ask the question — to wonder whether social and economic differences between groups might be caused by something other than prejudice. This is why the topic of viewpoint diversity — in our universities, our law schools, in the world of expertise — isn’t the esoteric topic it might seem. Even as the wider Canadian society seems to be retreating from the excesses of cancel culture and woke shibboleths (good news on that front), the staffing of our knowledge institutions, our universities and our law schools still overwhelmingly comes from those on the left — from the same groups who assume that socioeconomic variation is, de facto, linked to discrimination. These are the people who get to decide when — if ever — the only legal form of systemic discrimination allowed in Canada (affirmative action) will ever end."
Voices: Nobody understands what ‘global majority’ means – so let’s not use it - "The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) had hoped it would “decentre” whiteness – yet there is no global ethnic majority group, unless you take the incredibly white-centred view of the world that all non-white people are a group of their own... The global demographic is not relevant for equal opportunities (unless you are staffing the United Nations); only the national, regional or local demographic is... The term feels regressive despite its intentions, because British ethnic minorities – particularly those from a Commonwealth background – have placed a distinctly strong emphasis on their British identity. The writer Tomiwa Owolade has argued that it is important to understand that Black British people are as British as they are Black – often having more in common with other British people than with Black people in other regions. The term “global majority” offers the opposite perspective – regarding third- and fourth-generation Britons as members of the diaspora, more “other” than British... Constant changes in terminology are often seen as confusing and distracting by those from minority and majority backgrounds alike. If there is going to be a change of terminology, it would be important to first find out how welcome that is to the broad groups of people it is trying to describe."
Since minorities need to be protected, and white people are the global minority...
Constantly changing terminology is a feature, not a bug, of wokeness, so
When social justice trumps the three Rs - "According to the Toronto District School Board website, at the ALPHA Alternative School “social/emotional learning, democratic decision-making, and social justice are foundations of our program,” and “students have considerable freedom to choose what, how and when they learn. We give individual feedback instead of grades or tests.” So this is a school where instead of taking tests, students learn about “social justice” by going on field trips to protest Israel. Is any real education taking place here, or just indoctrination? Besides ALPHA Alternative, numerous other TDSB alternative schools have mission statements focused on “social justice” activism. The TDSB’s City View Alternative Senior School is advertised for students “interested in education for peace and social justice,” and “many of the subject areas are taught through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability.” In the Downtown Alternative School, “social activism and equity are embedded in the curriculum.” At East Alternative School of Toronto, “students are socially minded critical thinkers, who advocate and work towards a just and sustainable society.” At Hawthorne II Bilingual Alternative Junior School, the curriculum is delivered “through the dual lenses of social justice and outdoor education.” More samples of TDSB alternative school descriptions: the Grove Community School calls itself “Toronto’s first public elementary school focused on environmental education, community activism and social justice;” the East York Alternative Secondary School includes “social justice oriented education;” the Oasis Alternative Secondary School delivers a “social justice influenced curriculum;” and the Student School in the High Park area has “student directed learning and a focus on wellness and social justice.” Anti-Israel activism, as in the latest ALPHA Alternative “field trip,” has some history in TDSB alternative schools. Back in 2007, a council meeting of teachers and students at the Student School voted unanimously for a motion recognizing Israel as an apartheid state, and an entire wall in the school and an “information desk” were dedicated to “Israeli Apartheid.” In 2008, a Jewish student was too frightened by the anti-Israel hostility at the school to continue going there, and left. The TDSB investigated, but the school administrator fiercely defended his school’s anti-Israel agenda. While the TDSB finally banned “Israeli Apartheid Week” activities in 2010, this did not solve all problems. In 2013, the Jewish Tribune reported that the Student School’s Facebook page was sharing links to the Iranian government’s propaganda arm, Press TV, as well as several antisemitic websites — evidence that the TDSB investigation into anti-Israel activism at the school was not entirely effective in curtailing such activity. That a TDSB investigation did not rid the school of radical politics cannot be a surprise; around the same time, the TDSB itself was making headlines for its lesson plans featuring Che Guevara and the Black Panthers."
When schools admit they are indoctrinating students, left wingers still mock those who point this out as deluded and misinformed
Ontario's education curriculum is infected with Marxist nonsense - "In a province that’s added a generous share of race communism and guilt politics to its classrooms and teacher training materials in the past decade, it shouldn’t be a surprise that some teachers are taking kids to protests. Ontario’s curriculum includes teachings that promote Marxism, Critical Race Theory and the identification and shaming of “dominant” groups in society, all while denigrating colonialism — and white people, by proxy — as a simplistic force of evil... Take the province’s “equity and social justice” options courses, introduced in 2013 under the previous Liberal government for Grades 11 and 12... these are to introduce students to the language of gender ideology, social justice theories of racial power and privilege, as well as to the relevant theorists (“Judith Butler, George Dei, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, bell hooks, Karl Marx” are some suggestions). Course slides and materials for one Durham school’s Grade 12 edition of the course give an idea of how it’s taught. “In groups, identify the dominant group for your assigned categories and then take notes as everyone presents,” goes the instruction for a first-day classroom activity; a corresponding worksheet has students fill in their race and sexual orientation... The Durham school’s course materials on “The Troubling Legacy of Post-Colonialism” simplify the colonization of North America as a shallow, sadistic, careless process — which would be less concerning if a counterpoint was offered, but one is not... its lesson on Critical Race Theory tells students that “whiteness,” “masculinity” and “heterosexuality” are all “categories of power” that dominate society. Rather than presenting it as a social theory, it’s presented as a one-dimensional fact. The class continues by teaching students about systemic racism: the force that, through “apparently neutral institutional policies or practices,” leads to unequal outcomes that nefariously “only serves to reinforce the challenges” that minorities face. One lecture handout nudges students to blame racial crime statistics on supposedly inherent Canadian racism... On gender, another course handout argues that one main factor behind segregating sport by sex is “gender superiority”: biological differences are either too minor to warrant separation, the writer claims, or better replaced by unisex weight and performance classes. “Evidently women are not expected to exert themselves to the same extent,” it remarks, encouraging female students to view sex-segregated sports as an indignity. A classroom activity has students “make arguments in favour of mixed-sex sports,” but not against. After a discussion on neo-pronouns (“ze/zir”), the ladies are told the story of the everlasting unfairness of the gender pay gap. Canadian women are paid 17 per cent less than men. No counterpoint or context is offered, though they exist: if we’re anything like the U.S., the pay gap mainly applies to women who’ve had kids — that is, it’s is less about sexism and more about time in the game. The guys, on the other hand, are told that the traditional concept of masculinity is a social justice issue, that it’s OK to be soft and feminine and that trying to “be a man” can be damaging to a person. Everyone receives their respective victimhood narratives. Throughout the course, students are sung the praises of activists. Black Lives Matter protests and their road-blocking tactics are lauded, their associated disorder is sidestepped. The moral imperative to be an “ally” to social movements whose righteousness goes unquestioned — at least in the slides — is touted. The final project varies by school, but students cap off with something related to activism: whether it be an inclusive design audit or an awareness-raising project. This is quite clearly a course on promoting left-wing politics, and it’s been allowed to continue by Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government. Activist teachers can hardly be blamed for such an inappropriate course, as the curriculum itself sets out that students will be taught progressive-left ideas. Theories of justice and movements for social change that are typically associated with conservatives are nowhere in sight... In 2022, Indigenous ways of knowing were peppered throughout the Grades 1-8 science curriculum with varying degrees of appropriateness. Discussing various local First Nations crops might make sense, but the curriculum also goes as far as associating Indigenous practices with sustainability and conservation, which isn’t always an accurate generalization. It’s well known that the Māori hunted many New Zealand species to extinction when they arrived some 700 years ago. Human activity was almost certainly a factor in the disappearance of North American megafauna. And today, Indigenous people in Canada, like any people anywhere, vary in their conservation-mindedness: some care, others poach. Regarding language instruction overall, the province continues to implement “antidiscrimination education” to direct classroom proceedings according to modern progressivism. English class learning materials, says the provincial curriculum, should “involve protagonists of both sexes from a wide variety of backgrounds” and “reflect the diversity of Canadian and world cultures.” Not all class materials need to be Shakespeare, but it speaks volumes that the curriculum is more concerned about book character demographics than its ability to familiarize kids with the English canon. But that is the attitude that drives innovation in public education, it seems, which is why the Toronto public school board came up with its own course on Critical Race Theory and anti-Black racism. The course, which ended up being offered in 22 schools in 2022, raises the familiar clichés: “white supremacist ideologies” afflict North America, capitalism is oppressive to Black people, systemic racism is the reason for lower academic performance among Black students, and so on. An entire unit is dedicated to the topic of activism. Not only is the course content driven by shallow revolutionary ideas, but so is the pedagogy. It rejects the “Eurocentric hierarchical structure” in favour of the effectively communist theory of critical education, in which teachers aren’t considered teachers but “co-learners.” The Toronto school board puts it a bit more subtly, claiming that it follows an “Afrocentric” “communal model” (even though the theorist behind critical education theory was Brazilian)... It doesn’t matter that the Ontario education ministry is now conservative-run. It continues on auto-pilot. Marxist propaganda has been transparently integrated into province-designed courses. Demographic bean-counting as a means of selecting course material is encouraged right in the curriculum documents. Western culture is denigrated in the name of multiculturalism and decolonization, while other world cultures — Indigenous ones, especially — escape that highly critical lens. Students are being taught not just how to be activists, but what to advocate for."
City of Nanaimo loses judicial review of financial manager’s ‘discriminatory’ firing - "B.C. Human Rights Tribunal (HRT) ruled in 2023, the City of Nanaimo discriminated against former chief financial officer Victor Mema, who was employed with the City between 2015 until 2018, awarding him over $640,000. Mema is of Zimbabwean descent. While Mema was noted by the HRT for making “poor decisions” regarding the use of the City-issued credit card, the “City’s decisions to suspend and terminate his employment were discriminatory.”... Mema was suspended by the City with pay in March 2018 and fired about two months later for personal purchases made on a City-issued credit card after the HRT heard he compiled more than $14,000 in personal expenses. Mema’s termination took place after a misconduct complaint within Mema’s finance department was initiated, aspects of which were heavily scrutinized in the HRT ruling... In the opinion of the HRT, Mema was falsely and racially portrayed as an official who abused funds, silenced whistleblowers, and avoided accountability. According to the the BC Supreme Court ruling, the City of Nanaimo argued the HRT unreasonably relied on “hearsay and opinion evidence” in implying discrimination against Mema in the absence of direct evidence."
Punishing black people who've done something wrong is racist
