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0 pointsdatsci_est_20158d ago0 comments

> or label half the country racist and deal with the resulting backlash.

This is an unfair characterization, and frankly, is baseless political rhetoric. Incredible propaganda job moneyed interests have performed in order to convince the right wing that any research that asks probing questions about equity automatically implies anyone white and conservative is “racist”.

My favorite research that falls into this category concerns the effects of nuclear weapons testing on the lands and livelihoods of indigenous peoples. Clearly, nakedly something that anyone with a decent moral compass would give a shit about, but pulled under the umbrella of DEI because empathy is dead.

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wins327678d ago· 3 in thread

It's not propaganda, it's all the normal people on the left in my life who have in the last 5-6 years started calling anyone to their right on social justice issues racist. You're doing a lesser form of it here with "Clearly, nakedly something that anyone with a decent moral compass..." That makes a moral issue out of something that's clearly within the realm of politics in a healthy society (where to direct tax dollars). It's perfectly reasonable to think that I'd rather have slightly higher dollars spent on Medicaid funding than do that research study. If you agree with that, then it's clearly a political question, not a moral one.

datsci_est_2015OP7d ago

Sounds quite reasonable when you put it that way, but unfortunately the entire domain of such research has been demonized and turned into a right wing meme, essentially disqualifying any such research from being funded at all. “DEI” is a rhetorical hammer and any funding for research that involves equity is the porcelain that the hammer is smashing.

So it’s no longer about whether we allocate funding to this or that, as a political compromise, it’s about the culture war.

hardbass6d ago

It seems like those leftists have largely been proven correct.

jibal6d ago

Of course it's propaganda--the product of moneyed interests, as he said. It's ignorant, irrational, and dishonest to deny it. (And the rest of your comment here, and comments here, are in the same basket.) The statement was "Incredible propaganda job moneyed interests have performed in order to convince the right wing that any research that asks probing questions about equity automatically implies anyone white and conservative is “racist”" and then you immediately respond with exactly that claim.

It's not those on the left who are the baddies. The statement here was about those on the right using "DEI" to institutionalize bigotry. And it was a response to blatant lies like "label half the country racist".

And masking immorality and blatant bigotry as "politics" is a common "conservative" ploy. Of course "the effects of nuclear weapons testing on the lands and livelihoods of indigenous peoples" is prima facie a moral issue--nakedly, as he said.

Elsewhere you claim that

> Richard Muller have come in to disprove the mainstream consensus

It seems that there's nothing you won't lie about.

But enough wallowing in the mud with ____ ... I won't respond further.

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