cpu_qwerty

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by cpu_qwerty 5y ago
> and then when you check what they were banned for there's a tirade of racial slurs directed at other members of the community. This isn't always true. I don't want to derail the topic of this thread, but I certainly find
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by cpu_qwerty 5y ago
How about judging the essence of an argument instead of just talking about prose and going on an irrelevant tangent about "recent articles on HN"?
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by cpu_qwerty 5y ago
> The news typically gets the literal basic facts right, but they tend to distort and omit facts to fit their narrative. > The mainstream news may distort and omit facts, but they do get the literal basic facts right, so if one's
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by cpu_qwerty 5y ago
In terms of books, I'd say Reich's "Who We Are and How We Got Here" is still the best popular intro available.
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by cpu_qwerty 5y ago
Nothing in this paper seems surprising. Of course self-reported race/ethnicity corresponds very well to ancestry, and ancestry is related to different traits, and these traits are detected in medical images. The social justice concerns
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by cpu_qwerty 5y ago
Genetic ancestry is not just a fantastical vanity construct. Genetic ancestry from different populations is real, and while it doesn't correspond exactly to our social "race" categories, it often does. We need to be careful a
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by cpu_qwerty 5y ago
White Europeans are not Caucasian, because they are not from the Caucasus. There are actual Caucasians so stop abusing that term which was incorrectly applied to Europeans and others based on some outdated pseudoscience. And even if you do