I don't disagree about issues of white privilege and white supremacy being particularly insidious in our society, but I never got the impression that Fauxcused was speaking to those issues, but specifically only in response to pisa2012's scientific racism.
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One of the unwritten laws of science, particularly amongst statisticians and especially when studying human behaviour, is that if every study you have on a subject shows the exact same results, chances are there is a flaw in the studies themselves, because real life results do _not_ look anything like what they are…
Ah, thank you for bringing up the logical fallacies, I was about to. ;)
Or you're comparing apples and oranges again: an appeal to authority is entirely invalid and a logical fallacy if it's not an appropriate authority relevant to the topic at hand. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_…)
In this case, if I want to know about the early history of computing, I'll talk to Shockley (my…
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While I don't disagree with Watson there, since the Irish (not to mention the Scottish and Welsh, but the Irish in particular) have faced oppression in the British Isles for a long time at the hands of the reigning Irish.
And yet, I find it telling that Watson can clearly see that when it comes to his own heritage,…
While I don't disagree, I also think that American cultural hegemony _does_ have tangible and intangible effects on people around the world, and racism and white supremacy exported to other nations and cultures is part of it, so I think it's fair to ask _why_ Asian women are being pressured to get eyelid surgery,…
As an Asian (North) American... and a self-identified slacker, I appreciate your post very much. ;)
I still get asked if I'm a tourist if I look even slightly lost (no sense of direction)... in Toronto, the city I've lived in since 1977 (other than Ottawa). :P
/no model minority here
You're entirely ignoring the effect of socialization, culture, as well as the benefits that countries like Japan enjoyed in the post-war era where they did not face onerous war debt the way Germany did after WWI with the Treaty of Versailles. MacArthur's SCAP may have been problematic from a colonialism/imperialism…
THIS.
You should try reading how actual Native, Aboriginal, Indigenous and First Nations people actually feel about these issues, because those are the people who are directly impacted when the people you would hope would be the most understanding and supportive, People of Colour, attempt to minimize and delegitimize their…
The onus to prove anything is on the people claiming scientific racism is scientifically valid, especially considering how many racial theorists were proven entirely wrong by real science.
I don't like any so-called 'scientist' who, because they consider themselves experts in their field, suddenly think that makes them…
Yeah, as a kid I used to be surprised to find Asian eyes staring back at me in the mirror, because almost everyone around me was white.
I think it's important to speak out publicly against racism, and of course, bad science, regardless of whether people are trolling or not. It likely won't change a troll's mind, but it will educate people who don't know any better or are sitting on the fence.
Scientific racism is pseudoscience: it was pseudoscience in the turn of the century, it was pseudoscience when Mengele was busy murdering Jewish twins just to find out why some of them were born with blue eyes (a perfect example of a total lack of understanding of genetics), and it's pseudoscience even if the great…
Just because you have the privilege of not caring about this issue, doesn't mean that it's not "interesting", let alone important.
Winning a Nobel prize doesn't make someone smarter, nor does it make them less racist, sexist, homphobic, etc.:
+1 internets.
I'm sure it's not intended to be racist, but I was kind of discomfited when a woman I met at a pub would not stop going on about my eyes. I mean, she was very intoxicated and clearly meant it to be complimentary, but it was almost starting to feel like a fetish, like I could be any Asian guy who happened to walk into…