For example, language translation apps were terrible, just 10 years ago, but today are pretty good. The apps are good enough now that you can actually communicate with a stranger who doesn't know your language
I've been doing that for 15 years
what do you do with all these people who aren't bankers? Conservative's solution is to create social strife and point at big numbers.
I think you are giving them too much credit for coordinated effort. They don't have a plan.
If what you're implying is true (that anyone who couldn't otherwise graduate from Harvard could graduate with remedial classes) then literally anyone could potentially graduate from Harvard with remedial classes and everyone has exactly the same potential.
Yeah. Harvard is hard to get in to, it's not hard to graduate from.
"Black" culture in the U.S. is unlike anything I've seen anywhere else in the world (although it is slowly taking hold in the UK as well) and it promotes values that are antithetical to academic success and conscientiousness in general.
You don't know what "Black" culture is. You also don't know what "White" culture is, because "White" culture includes songs that promote wasting money, shooting people, and getting drunk to avoid problems.
I would not be surprised to see a new, entirely evidence-free hypothesis emerging:
Unsurprisingly, you can't recognize that your own hypotheses are evidence-free. Likely because you look for evidence to support your ideas, rather than to test your ideas (which is what a scientist would do).
I had to look up "motivated thinking" as a logical fallacy as I'd never heard of that one before.
I believe it. You should read it again so you stop doing it. Motivated reasoning is bad. It's what lawyers do.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood