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Hounding the president of Harvard out of a job because you think she’s a DEI hire is one thing, but going after a Billionaire’s wife? How dare these journalists! What big bullies.

Bonus downplaying of EA’s faults. He of course phrases the Bostrom affair as someone being “accused” of sending a racist email, as if there were any question as to who sent it, or if it was racist. And acts like it’s not just the cherry on top of a lifetime of Bostrom’s work.

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Sneering my way through the comments.

    Here’s Jonatan Pallesen, whose twitter bio is: “PhD in statistical genetics. I analyze and tweet about questions in science and economics.” HMM.

    Another example of targeting in this case is me. I wrote a critique of Claudine Gay’s research, which I think is quite strong. (https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1749546447811277119 and https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1740324971430154471)

    Putting aside the validity of the critiques, why does this fellow feel the need to look into this research at this point in time? Could it be that he is… targeting Gay while she is in the limelight? Couldn’t be, only the evil media would do such a thing.

    And for this I was attacked by the Guardian for things completely unrelated, such as my views on immigration, and previous coauthors.

    So I went ahead and searched the dude’s name and “guardian”. Here’s what showed up.

    If I were to guess why he was “attacked” (really just reported on accurately), it would be that he was name checked by one of the main parties involved in Gay’s resignation, and the guardian was doing its due diligence and investigating every aspect of the story. That’s way less assuming than Jon’s explanation of being targeted.

    It can obviously have a chilling effect if you write a critique of a scientific paper, you risk being called racist by a major newspaper.

    Better ways to say what really happened:

    • A racist dude sung my praises, the guardian suspected I am racist by association, investigated, and found out that I am indeed racist.
    • If you say and do racist shit like race science, people will call you racist, because you are racist
    • Evinceo@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I can’t believe you targeted him 🎯 by googling his name and finding out he’s eugenicist scum.

      (Seriously, thanks for slogging through the comments to find gems like this.)

    • TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I haven’t read Scott’s comment sections in a long time, so I don’t know if they’re all this bad, but that one is a total dumpster fire. It’s a hive of Trump stans, anti-woke circle-jerkers, scientific racists, and self-proclaimed Motte posters. It certainly reveals the present demographic and political profile of his audience.

      Scott has always tried to hide his reactionary beliefs, but I’ve noticed he’s letting the mask slip a bit more lately.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It has been getting worse over time for a long while, it is what drove away the (unfortunately named) yodatsracist from the subreddit. He even made a sneerclub comment about it. See this thread on reddit 5 years ago. (I forgot what the url was for the archived sneerclub site sorry).

    • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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      10 months ago

      When I read your comment and then the Guardian article it was like the real life version of that “you know the ones” tweet.