I tell you what I think and why I think it. I post on slashdot for fun.

Academics playacting as public intellectuals earn their salaries directly or indirectly from selling themselves as people qualified to tell you how or what to think, and they know it.

See the difference?

Yeah man. Just like back when mike pence rounded up the gays and put them on cattle cars. Dark times.

Citation required for every single thing you said.

No evidence I benefited from past nastiness any more or any less than any person alive today. The direct descendants of slaves are long-dead and the last people to come of age under institutional racial segregation in this country are past retirement.

No evidence the bag of crazy one finds in Robin DeAngelo (read her work, I did, and there's literally elementary school logic mistakes on every page), Ibram Kendi, or their many copycats actually does any good to anyone other than the consultants pocketing fees for their diversity training services.

Also no evidence that saying land acknowledgements ad nauseum, renaming columbus day, or prefacing all your statements with a header packet listing your ancestry and supposed guilt has the power to reach back in time and undo the slave trade or innoculate the natives against smallpox.

If you add a bunch of extra coefficients that are basically guesses and squishy "social science" apologetic, you can soften the blow/implications to someone's ego. However, it still doesn't change the outcome or the facts. The fact is that asians and whites commit a lot less crime per-capita and a lot more in nominal terms. If you want to run onto the scene and hand-wave with a bunch of mitigating factors, go ahead, there is room for that and some of those factors really do matter. However, the per-capita stats matter, too. They seem to say "Those groups can do better." and they definitely can. They probably would if we took some of additional factors into consideration and tried to mitigate them.

Bullshit. You made a racially charged statement: "the majority of arrests for these crimes are of Caucasians" then you're horrified when some calls you a racist and a statistics-liar ? Bro, YOU ARE A RACIST and it's as simple as that and as clear as day. Are you one of those "it's impossible to be a racist against white people" racists?

I didn't turn it into anything. You made a racist statement. You clearly just thought it was fine because it was anti-white.

I was told to go along with race-baiting, race-essentialist, communist-adjacent propaganda so I voted for the guy who promised to fight it. And he is.

Scientists are fallible humans the way everyone else is. And my personal observation is that academic science is a magnet for several particular human failings.

At its best, the intentionally adversarial nature of the scientific process (in experiment, nature is your adversary; in publication your peers are your adversary) separates the wheat from the chaff.

At its worst (when money and personal reputation and prestige are on the line), it's far easier to go along to get along, get the grant, get the publication, get the recommendation letter. And bad ideas fester.

There are a lot of bad ideas festering in American universities. Not least of which is the idea that having the letters PhD after your name qualifies you to opine on $current_events with unquestioned solomonic wisdom regardless of whether you have any expertise in the subject or whether your next grant is riding on a particular direction of public opinion.

As someone who's been in and around American academia for close to 25 years, I can say with certainty that a large element of American academia absolutely earned its place in the doghouse.

Years and years of quiet ascent to this shit:
https://www.newsweek.com/smith...

will grate on you too. Twenty plus years ago almost every announcement for a grant or fellowship application in my university was followed up with "women and minorities especially encouraged to apply" and not too long ago my wife (both a woman and a "minority!") is required by her employer to put a disclaimer in every presentation she gives to medical students that she did her due diligence to seek out scientific and medical sources written by underrepresented minorities before she may proceed to give the lecture, citing the people who actually did the work in question. Complexion and chromosomes notwithstanding.

They can also just fly lower. Cruising at 30000 ft instead of 40000 ft is a 50% to 75% radiation reduction.

Yeah, you do not want to go there. Those stats absolutely do not prove the racist shit you are implying: quite the opposite. The second you actually account for population ratios in those stats, it becomes blindingly apparent that "black and brown bodies" are committing a hugely disproportionate number of crimes compared to Caucasians. For example, quoting from the article "The data shows significant disparities when examining specific violent crime categories. African Americans are the primary group arrested for murders, robberies, and weapons violations, despite representing only 13 percent of the total US population."

From what I can tell: that's true. However, what you call "white" I call "anti-racist". What you call "nationalism" I'd probably call "western culture". He seems concerned that the West is being overrun with culturally incompatible people and ideas. Anytime he or anyone else stands up for white folks or the West, there is always some hysterical useful idiot yelling "racism!" at the clouds. It appearently wasn't racism when applied to black or brown folks (then it's "equity") but if someone says a single nice thing about the West or about white folks, folks like you start your label printer up.

I'll bet! It's hard when your primary way to shut people up (hysterical racism labels) start bouncing off folks and they start waking up to the fact that not everything that leftists hate is actually racism. I've also noticed that tactic is failing these days. They lost "retard" now they are losing on "racist" too. That's what happens when you really want Communism, but have no debate skills, so you just get intellectually lazy and start slinging "racism" everywhere you actually meant "not Marxist".

Why am I not surprised you're on Bluesky and know it's nuances? Yeah, okay, well... when they get to 1000 users maybe they will implement that feature. :-)

Obviously you were one of the pro-censorship butthurt idiots that were so rekt by Elon's takeover. Could you please cry those tears in this little bottle? I'd like to save them.

This is the guy going into empty discussion groups on Mastodon and Bluesky "Sure is nice to be somewhere without them darn Nazis, am I right guys? Am I right? Guys? Hello?"

Nope. Last three international trips I took I breezed right back in. No phone search at all. Same thing. In the US they say "Give us your phone." when you're under suspicion and they want your phone. In the EU they say "You're under suspicion. Give us your phone." Big difference *shrug*.