If there was some reverse "culture war blitzkrieg" across mass media and "social media" with non-"woke" "fascist" values -- like that all-out assault of "woke" BS that the Cult of Progress launched around the time of the "GamerGate" freakshow -- maybe that would "de-radicalize" "radicalize" most of the SJWs to stop being SJWs? Unlike SJW values, non-SJW "far right" values tend go with human nature and do not have a record of always going broke. Like what if SJWs could not avoid seeing "fascist" values, with no "safe space" away?
tl;dr: What if the tables were turned, and the SJWs were flooded with non-SJW values, like the cult tried to flood the non-SJWs with?
I think that would make it worse. These people are obstinate and love playing revolutionary. Nothing would make them happier than some government persecuting them, ‘cause then they can play
Star Wars.
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I think they got the labels mixed up.
I mean, yeah, they did, but even if it
was accurate…
so what? “You’re a violent pervert who mutilates children and scares women.” “Yeah, but your wife is ugly.” They’re shallow, which is why they’re so immoral and why their lives hinge on plastic surgery.
Anyway, I wanted to do a post on
Kareem Carr, the Harvard
biostatistician who is smart enough to know
academia is for sycophants, but dumb enough to say
2+2=5. I thought a good place to start would be his
Xitter:
Kareem said:
Hot Take: It really makes me mad that people blame scientists for covid policies. Whatever did or didn't happen to you during covid was the fault of your *elected politicians* who are the people who are actually responsible for you and your welfare.
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Except he’s forgetting that the entire field of public health exists. And that certain politicians were either employing their own scientific credentials or parroting the views of allies with such accreditations.
Kareem said:
I find it extremely funny when people refer to academics as "elites" since a huge number of academics are making less money than a manager at McDonald's.
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What he seems to be forgetting is that making little money is irrelevant when you have wealthy parents backing you. It’s easy to pursue one’s passion at an academic level when one’s financial risk is buffered by mommy-and-daddy. In order to get into these schools, you need an abundance of extracurriculars, which selects for the middle- and upper-class. So
yeah, I
do think people attending and running fancy schools are “elite”.
Furthermore, he’s forgetting that much of the pushback against the “elite” is rooted in the prescription of modes of speech. No one would care about some Harvard statistician if he wasn’t
also part of the same cohort that made it so you get fired immediately if you say the N-word on your
private social media.
He’s an elite for the same reason that piss-poor Victorians who shilled for Received Pronunciation were
also elites. In spite of their ephemeral poverty, they were
tastemakers whose opinions on etiquette could ruin your life. Wat Tyler was
killed because he drank water crudely before the king. This stuff
does matter, it
does betray a paternalistic and prescriptive attitude, and it
does convey condescension and contempt. And he does have contempt, look at this:
Kareem said:
One thing I realized from listening to a bunch of interviews with the undecided voters is they really have no idea what is going on. They don't know about DEI or facism. They don't know what any of the policies are. They didn't like that groceries were expensive. That was it.
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Yeah, Kareem, no one understands what WW2 was except for Harvard graduates like you. It’s not like Kamala permitted human rights violations against female prisoners in California, it’s that Orange Man Bad. You’re not an elite, but you
self-identify as an expert and have contempt for people struggling to feed their kids.
Kareem said:
i don’t understand people who agree with the following: “It is extremely important to me that people I don’t know, and will never meet, are gender conforming. When they aren’t, it makes me very angry.” it’s honestly kinda unhinged to me.
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I love when wokoids / SJWs / whatever you want to call them try to project their mental illness outward. You saw this with the
“Republicans are weird” campaigns in response to the so-called
“groomer libel”. It’s textbook D.A.R.V.O.
And, of course, textbook strawmanning. Most people, when this topic is brought up, will
specifically say that “they don’t care what people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms”. The
issue is the mutilation of children, the sterilization of the homosexual and disabled, men in women’s prisons and sporting leagues, etc. And when people do say that they think crossdressing should be banned at work or whatever, it’s usually because they object to perverts subjecting unwilling people to their exhibitionism and autogynephilia. In other words, even in the
most extreme opposition you see an emphasis on
protecting the vulnerable. But that’s too humanizing, rational, and inconvenient for Kareem. It’s easier to believe Billboard Chris, Matt Walsh, and Maya Forstater are just mad that a man they’ll never know is wearing a bow while posting on Discord.
And, of course, the emphasis is on how deranged the transphobes are. I’ll give Kareem this point - the gender debates are
fascinating, and part of why the SRS thread is so big. People do get obsessed about this topic to the point where one may consider them “unhinged”. But you know what’s even more unhinged than being an unemployed fervent transphobic shitposter? Someone who wastes their life savings, kids college fund, or luxury-car amounts of money to have someone else mutilate their genitals. But, “LAWL,
Ben Shapiro and the TERFs are so obsessed!” Yeah, bro, and you have some Lovecraftian fever-dream in your shorts. Who wouldn’t pay attention to genital-origami that telepathically speaks of strange aeons where even death may die? Shit’s fucked.
Archive for the Shapiro link, but without the time stamp to the specific segment I was alluding to.
Kareem said:
Beginning to understand why so many Americans are obsessed with trans issues and panicking about being replaced. They think there are 21x more trans people, 27x more muslims, 15x more jews, 5x more asians, 3x more black people, and 2x more immigrants than there actually are.
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No, Kareem, we’re “freaking out” because children are being mutilated and there are men in women’s prisons - something that constitutes
a human rights violation. It doesn’t matter if there’s one child being abused, 30, or 1,000; it’s always wrong.
John Oliver made this argument about boys cheating in girls sports and it’s baffling. They themselves would never tolerate, say, police brutality against an unarmed black man, even if happened infrequently. And that’s because child abuse, cruel and unusual punishment, and corrupt cops are
inherently wrong. It’s not something you can tolerate, like
a few bug pieces in your chocolate. It’s an entire human life, you jackass.
Kareem said:
The hypothesis that liberals and conservatives would be better able to seek truth together in online spaces is false. It is a failed experiment. In fact, it makes both groups actively stupider.
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He said this in response to someone commenting on what an echo chamber BlueSky is. This is just cope when confronted with his tribe’s censorious tendencies. You’ll notice that this is a diversion. Someone says, “BlueSky is an echo chamber”. Kareem comes in and says, “There’s no evidence that bipartisan spaces work.” Well, that doesn’t address the questions of Blue Sky and echo chambers, does it? The first guy never said, “we need people with disparate politics to hash out what’s true”. He said, “this place is a left-wing echo chamber”. He completely sidesteps the argument.
For example, the first guy was being very broad. BlueSky isn’t an echo chamber for leftists. It’s an echo chamber for a very specific type of identity politics. Would a radical feminist be allowed on BlueSky? Or a materialist Marxist who thinks all troonery is bourgeois nonsense? Of course not. Because it’s not a place where lefty people can hash out lefty ideas, it’s a hugbox for an extremely select group of people.
I don’t necessarily disagree with Kareem that conservatives and lefties would have an easier time developing their theories in isolation from each other. If you’re a right-winger, and you want to talk about the minutiae of homesteading, having some dude jump in and debate the basics of property rights is frustrating. However, it’s annoying
because it’s off-topic, not because the guy is a lefty. You can make your own vice versa example.
And, of course, Kareem has awful takes on sex.
To me, the debate over whether biological sex is best described a simplistic binary is just the Bias-Variance trade-off in another form.
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Appeal to complexity. Human sex is 100% binary. It really is that simple.
Kareem said:
In my thread on biological sex, multiple people argued that as a statistician I shouldn't be concerned with "outliers" meaning men and women at the extremes of the distribution and intersex conditions. I call bullshit on that. Real science is driven by the exceptions.
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Notice the dearth of context. I am willing to bet that most of these people were talking about
public policy. That is, the people he was speaking with were likely saying that outliers don’t count when designing massive infrastructure, like, say, bathrooms around the country. He shifts the focus away from a context where majorities are relevant to a context (science) where they are not.
But what about so-called “intersex” people, Kareem? None of them are actually intersex. In fact, the more you study these so-called “intersex” disorders, the more you realize they reiterate the binary nature of sex. It’s why only females have tetrachromacy and Turner’s Syndrome. Only males can have Kleinfelters. In situations where men and women can suffer from the same disorder (ex. Androgen insensitivity) the effects are different because the
sex of the patients is different.
Other people have said it, but just to reiterate… what does the existence of a female with Turner Syndrome have to do with an able-bodied male devoid of genetic disease claiming to be a woman? Against, it’s a fucking deflection.
Kareem in response to an article on brain sex said:
as a statistician, it’s hard for me to understand why people struggle so much with the idea that “male” and “female” are two distributions with significant overlap. it’s not that hard.
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As a statistician, you should shut the fuck up about neuroscience. The fact remains that male and female brains have no
gross anatomical differences. There is no organ that distinguishes the brains of men and women. There are sex-based trends related to things like neuron density and ratios of grey to white matter, but, like height, there is tremendous overlap.
So is Kareem right? No, because he has to be a retard and say that “male and female sometimes overlap”. No, they don’t. Male and female are mutually exclusive. Even if you had two seemingly identical brains in terms of size, weight, density, shape, etc., you couldn’t tell with the naked eye which sex the person who owned the brain was. But if you look at the cells of that brain, guess what, they’re sexed the same way every other somatic cell is. Besides, like, adult red blood cells. And even they are less effective when donated to opposite sex patients because of the sexed history of the cell.
To put it bluntly, male cells are red Legoes and female are blue. You can make the same structures out of different colour Legoes - identical in terms of shape or weight - but they aren’t the same because one is red and one is blue. You cannot make a male brain out of female neurons, even if the resulting brain fits with masculine trends in terms of shape or density. Like height, brains are mildly sexually dimorphic. Sure, 6ft men are more common than 6ft women, but the latter exist. They’re still female. Kareem, being an idiot, is confusing a single mildly dimorphic trait with sex itself. He’s pushing the sexist idea of “a man’s brain” inside a woman, and vice versa, the so-called tranny “brain sex” argument. He’s lying about this to push the tranny “sex is a bimodal distribution” argument. It’s not. Sex is a binary in humans, and throughout the animal kingdom. Shut up.
Kareem said:
I'm excited. Today is the day I find out if I, a legal immigrant, will spend every waking hour of the next 4 years terrified of having my life uprooted by some government bureaucrat on a power trip — or not.
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Then go the fuck back to the
Caribbean, ya batty boy, and leave Americans alone.
And of course in that link I attached to “Caribbean” he’s making light of some 8 year old girls pet getting the oxtail treatment.
Kareem said:
This Musk meme speaks to something true which is America is splitting culturally between the college educated vs the non-college educated. There is however a third group. People who went to college but who think and act like people who didn’t.
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Spoken like a true midwit Kamala voter. Yes, Kareem, there are people who went to college but still act like unrepentant ‘tards. You’re one of them and fact you think sex is a spectrum or bimodal distribution proves that.
Kareem said:
I believe scientific culture has become too coercive, and liberals under the guise of supporting science have become too authoritarian, and that what we're seeing now is the backlash.
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Broken clocks are right twice a day, aren’t they? Anyway, I’m sick of this joker. Harvard is a fucking joke. All the Ivy League does is produce useful idiots like Kareem and a bunch of
war criminals. I’m fully convinced that Kareem, John Oliver, or any other man who defends this shit is a pervert. Maybe they’re autogynephiles, maybe they’re pedophiles, maybe they’re just chasers… but something in their pants is motivating them. Either that or a big fat kickback from a pharmaceutical company.