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So.. what? How does that affect whether his ethnicity has a right to exist as a cohesive group, whether its members are better off as part of such a group vs. alone, whether they are better off sharing their countries with other ethnicities with strong group identities, and whether the documented relative demographic decline of his group in many countries [1] is something that group should welcome?

It is so hyperfocused on the people involved, it entirely ignores the underlying facts.

[1] 1970s: 87.5% --> 2020: 61.6% - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_US#Race

Comment · 3 years ago

I don't know - is it interesting that the US govt. used its influence to conceal Twitter influence campaigns that served to justify and whitewash the kind of military operations whose ugliness Manning revealed [1]?

What happens in US military expeditions is 10/10, but how they are sold to the US and global audience is 2/10?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111071

Comment · 3 years ago

> People have the right to decide who to spend time near

Unless they choose wrong, in which case the federal government uses legal and economic measures to correct their choices.

Comment · 3 years ago

Like clockwork. When it comes to claiming Europe has always been diverse and its countries have no identity, and demographics trends must be obfuscated, different European ethnicities are looked at separately, as if they have nothing in common. But when it's time to blame white people or claim some profession isn't diverse enough, they're lumped into a single group.

Comment · 3 years ago

> ...When Stanford could not remove a student organization for bad behavior, they found other justifications. One such case was the end of Outdoor House, an innocuous haven on the far side of campus for students who liked hiking. The official explanation from Stanford for eliminating the house was that the Outdoor theme “fell short of diversity, equity and inclusion expectations.” ...

> Next year, Outdoor House will be reinstated, but only because house members promised to refocus their theme on “racial and environmental justice in the outdoors.” Upholding diversity, equity, and inclusion is the first of four “ResX principles” that now govern undergraduate housing. Stanford reserves the right to unhouse any organization that does not, in their opinion, uphold these principles.

Comment · 3 years ago

Good guess. While London was 87% white British in 1971, that is now down to 37% (54% if counting all whites, not just Britons):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London#Ethnicity...

Comment · 3 years ago

> Women wait around ten years in America for a diagnosis of endometriosis, a painful but historically little studied gynaecological condition. [..] Might such delays and biases reflect skews in academic research?

That's a nice anecdote. Let's see what happens when we expand the sample size:

Men die earlier but women’s health gets four times more funding (in Australia) - https://web.archive.org/web/20140104031157/http://www.news.c...