garanduss

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by garanduss 10y ago
Misleading mainstream media, IMO. I'm conservative and the headlines about "election hacking" actually duped me until I had the time to read a thorough article about it.
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by garanduss 10y ago
It looks like it was from The Economist and YouGov - I falsely remembered it being Pew. Here's a WaPo article with a summary and a link to the raw data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016
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by garanduss 10y ago
The point is that "election hacking" is an intentionally misleading phrase. A Pew poll found that, after this media circus, half of Hillary voters believed that Russia had tampered with vote tallies. The NYT and WaPo (among other
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by garanduss 10y ago
>It's all too easy to excuse adverse discriminatory practices when you can point to some statistics that appear to justify them. Ironically, this is exactly what college administrations do when discriminating against white and Asian
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by garanduss 10y ago
I think we mostly agree. As a nationalist and constitutionalist American, I strongly agree about treating individuals as such. However, the problem is that the left has demonized that approach and suggested that if a demographic underperfor
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by garanduss 10y ago
The science isn't out, but much evidence suggests significant genetic correlation between race and IQ. In that sense, I'm not "making a case for racial superiority", I'm simply pointing out that some of the racial i
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by garanduss 10y ago
I come from an immigrant Catholic background as well. Personally, I'm mildly pro-choice (I see first-trimester abortions as necessary but distasteful). I think that the populist conservatism I see and largely subscribe to has the follo
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by garanduss 10y ago
Ah right, I didn't realize that you didn't know who I was referring to.
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by garanduss 10y ago
The Wikipedia article is pretty thorough and well-cited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Gosnell Without being combatant: it's usually best to quickly use Wikipedia and a search engine before asking for a ref
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by garanduss 10y ago
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there's more conservative fake news, but remember that those lists showing a 9-1 balance are made by leftists whining about the election and trying to delegitimize its winner.
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by garanduss 10y ago
I'll focus on the second paragraph in this response. I find it depressing how partisan and tabloidy Breitbart is, and I'm therefore unsurprised that people like Ben Shapiro have denounced it. However, Breitbart presents an alterna
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by garanduss 10y ago
>Then, deploying the rhetorical jujitsu Frank Luntz was so successful at popularizing on the right, Trump co-opted the term. "Fake news" wasn't webspam sites filled with literal manufactured news having no connection to re
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by garanduss 10y ago
American schools also use quota-like systems.
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by garanduss 10y ago
>It sounds like you just wish they were more like you? Isn't this the kind of mentality that prevents diversity? Using your definition of diversity, yes. I think that part of the point in making is that people maintain diversity as
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by garanduss 10y ago
You're pontificating too much on test scores when that's only part of it. Standards are generally lower for black and Hispanic applicants - they don't just receive a test score handicap. Also, they get much of this advantage
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by garanduss 10y ago
The idea you describe in your second paragraph is to some extent rational, too. For example, a degree from a top college means less for a black job applicant because of the heavy affirmative action advantage given to them.
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by garanduss 10y ago
No, they're just using a different definition of diversity. Many people oppose mass immigration for reasons other than xenophobia. Speaking personally, I found that work environments with lots of new or unamericanized immigrants had li
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by garanduss 10y ago
The concept of culture is in many ways a stereotype of personal and group behavior, so your argument doesn't make much sense to me.
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by garanduss 10y ago
>It's telling you created a throwaway to post this. I rarely comment on HN and usually just register a new account when I do. I can understand why people would register a throwaway though, considering the blind hostility people like