And Thomas Sowell is an economist at Stanford. Funny how academics cease being a spooky monolith of indoctrination deserving of unlimited skepticism and start being inarguable sources of unshakable truth when they're telling you things you want to hear, no?

I'm just going to continue to laugh at you for calling John McWhorter a racist anti-semite fwiw.

I don't have any stats in front of me but I'm assuming he's taking about AA's having disproportionally lower test scores.
Why do they on average have lower test scores? We can agree it's environmental as opposed to genetic? Whether it be a higher % coming from broken homes, subpar schools, poverty, etc...
Haven't we all agreed since the George Floyd thread that historical, systemic/structural racism has contributed to this position? From the GI Bill as a govt example and redlining as a private sector example?
Beyond arguing what the govt should do to make amends for this, shouldn't it also be taught in school as a historical fact so it hopefully doesn't happen again?

He seems to come from a pretty privileged background being raised by two academic parents. Sometimes it can come off like he's sitting on his high horse telling people facing vastly different circumstances than him to suck it up and straighten up.

I also enjoy listening to him but it's not like he pulled himself out of the ghetto to get where he is.

He didn't but many others who think like him, such as Sowell, did.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised at your inability to see things from another point of view.

Actually, I already explained (more than once) that I see the cartoon completely different than you do, so you should already know that this is nonsense. Whether you have that much difficulty with reading comprehension and logic, or are just being disingenuous, I have no idea.

So it would seem.

I think the cute part about labeling that cartoon racist is that it's like reverse wokeism.
I find it somewhat amusing but turns into a Sean Hannitty bit if taken too far

The author ?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School


Like Karl Marx, the Frankfurt School concerned themselves with the conditions (political, economic, societal) that allow for social change realized by way of rational social institutions.[6] Their emphasis on the critical component of social theory derived from their attempts to overcome the ideological limitations of positivism, materialism, and determinism by returning to the critical philosophy of Kant and his successors in German idealism – principally the philosophy of Hegel, which emphasized dialectic and contradiction as intellectual properties inherent to the human grasp of material reality.

The Fox News set doesn't know who Kant or Hegel is so it's best to say 'Marxist' as they'll ignorantly assume that means 'communist'.

Easy game.

I'm guessing you've never actually read a word of Marx or anything from anyone associated with Frankfurt because this is nothing but a rehashing of Jordan Peterson's "Postmodern Neo-Marxism" hot takes which are actually just anti-Semitic dog whistles.

HIV's smart enough to not say this part out loud.

No, I'm certainly not a philosophy major. If I were I would have spotted hiv's garbage much earlier. It took me about 30 minutes of google clicking at the wiki level to figure out his theory was garbage.

If it's not even his theory and he's butchering Peterson's garbage then....even funnier.

It's like Las Vegas spending 1 billion dollars on a stadium instead of investing in education, then cutting their education budget.

But you knew that...

I always have the receipts. Critical race theorist are doing the same thing as the Frankfort School.

None of you can distinguish that top paragraph from critical race theory.

Pretty much. (wow)

Comicstrips trying to capture complex topics within a small series of images are never using metaphor. They are always to be taken literarly and i can give you the literal (and only) interpretation that is to be taken as fact.



Imagine how stupid this comic strip is suggesting the perfect soldier would have a big brawny body and yet no head. Great, he is a standing prop that can do nothing.

They are literally suggesting an attribute that is unchangeable (no head) as desirable, despite the fact it would make the person unable to do anything.

LOLOLOLOL, checkmate cartoonist I exposed your cartoon as wrong and dumb by simply taking it literally.

/IHIV

Why is the doctor wearing a dress ?

You are obviously a sexist.

Why would I know about the local politics of Las Vegas sportsball stadiums?

Nah, it's more like meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife.

You're welcome to explain why you think it's so self-evidently untrue, but this guy's wikipedia article isn't doing him any favors:

We literally have a word for people who think that the lower station of Black people in society is not really due to structural racism but because they are, at least on average, much worse people.

So he’s like the thinking man’s Bill Cosby, minus the raping.

If you keep calling McWhorter a racist here every day I'll be really happy.
Especially if you keep doing that while citing Wikipedia.
I think it's great and could read that all the time for lols.

It's always quite interesting when MrWookie exposes his rationale. He sees people who make bad decisions, as worse people, instead of people making bad decisions. So, when he sees someone criticizing behavior, he believes they are criticizing something inherent. Or more cynically, he transposes his belief that people who make bad decisions, are bad people. So, when somebody criticizes behavior, he explicitly believes those folks are calling those people bad people.

He's never been able to distinguish the nuance between bad people and unproductive/counterproductive behavior, but for him, that inability only exists for black people, as a group. For white people, he has no problem calling out bad behavior, and ultimately calling the group bad people. It's actually saying black people have no agency in regards to behavior, while white people do.

Whether or not McWhorter's criticism is valid or not, MrWookie doesn't realize MrWookie does the exact same thing to white people, as McWhorter does to black people. If John McWhorter is a racist, so is wookie, according to his rationale.

"Worse people" is an obvious snarky shorthand about my opponents, not a sincerely held belief of my own, but hey, you keep beatin' that straw man.

But how about you explain what you think the distinction is between "a group people who make worse decisions on average" and "worse people?" What nuance do you see there that even makes a difference? Why can't making bad decisions make someone a worse person? Certainly some decisions, like deciding to commit murder, make someone a worse person?

How would you differentiate his views on the issues holding blacks back as opposed to that Wiki summary, as it seems you are suggesting that quote is wrong, correct?

I ask earnestly as someone who is not familiar with that individual at any deep level and am curious as to how you view him in that regard.

Those quotes seem exactly like McWhorter. But he's certainly not calling black people "much worse people".