The M$M, academia, and tech .... a litany of lies, bias, and idiocy
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this topic.
Trump coronavirus comments run afoul of Twitter, Facebook l GMA
President Donald Trump falsely claimed that children are “almost immune” from COVID-19 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Quote:That's a good example of tech bias because IT'S TRUE that children are "almost immune" from Covid-19. They seem to have T-cell immunity that works better than the antibody pathway. For some... and this is yet to be teased out how many... the T- call immune response kicks in just as the virus begins unpacking, so the virus never even gains a toehold in their bodies. But for whatever reason, kids rarely get sick from the virus and seem to clear it faster.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this topic.
Trump coronavirus comments run afoul of Twitter, Facebook l GMA
President Donald Trump falsely claimed that children are “almost immune” from COVID-19 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
So, how is this misinformation?
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I read this and I thought ...Naaaaah. ....
REALLY?
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Mentally Ill Professor Invented Bisexual Native American Persona Who 'Died' Of COVID-19
A former assistant professor who was denied tenure at Vanderbilt University for sending threats to colleagues was busted running a years-long 'hoax' - in which she invented an online persona on Twitter claiming to be an oppressed bisexual, Native American geologist.
BethAnn McLaughlin created the persona, @Sciencing_Bi, in 2016 while working as an assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt. After being denied tenure in 2017, McLaughlin left the university in July of 2018 - going on to found MeTooSTEM, a nonprofit organization aimed at advising scientists who are the victims of sexual harassment.
But McLaughlin was doing much more than harassing coworkers and failing to earn promotions.
According to the New York Times:
The anonymous account, @Sciencing_Bi, was an active participant in the corner of Science Twitter that frequently discusses issues of sexual misconduct in the sciences. It claimed on at least one occasion to have grown up in Alabama, to have “fled the south because of their oppression of queer folk,” and to have attended Catholic school. The account began to pointedly make reference to being Native American and, earlier this year, began to identify as Hopi.
Then, McLaughlin decided to kill off @Sciencing_Bi, announcing in April that she had contracted coronavirus - which she publicly blamed on Arizona State University, which she says made her teach in a lecture hall with 200 people.
Last Friday, BethAnn McLaughlin announced that @Sciencing_Bi had died of the virus.
Then it gets really weird (via HotAir.com)
After her “death” BethAnn McLaughlin suggested that she’d been in an intimate relationship with the woman known only as @Sciencing_Bi. “Looking at her side of the bed and crying. Just a lot of crying.”
this is one of my big hangups. if SB was a real and autonomous human, she was allegedly interacting with MTS in a client/support capacity, and should not have been anywhere near BA’s bed, much less had an established “side.” pic.twitter.com/LkqDEuC5hM
— Isabel Ott (@IsabelOtt) August 2, 2020
But pretty quickly McLaughlin’s story began to really fall apart as people noticed that details @Sciencing_Bi had claimed about Arizona State University were false, e.g. she didn’t know the correct dates for the school’s closing. Also, looking back over her tweets it seemed that she had only referenced her Native American ancestry fairly recently.
Here’s some more weirdness on the Indigenous ID claims, shared by a friend. Prior to 2020, their tone re: “Native Americans” indicated ID’ing as exterior to that group; first claims of Indigeneity seem to have arisen this spring/summer and seem...fishy to me. pic.twitter.com/0H7kwMIpbC
— Isabel Ott (@IsabelOtt) August 2, 2020
What's more, people caught McLaughlin using stock photos.
SB tweeted this photo about arriving in Nashville to meet with BA. This photo is a generic pic from an airline's website. It couldn't have been taken by her https://t.co/SL6t1cbt1v pic.twitter.com/rYWHpw6YNi
— Fieldwork Initiative (@MeTooFieldwork) August 2, 2020
In the end, Twitter suspended McLaughlin's personal account and her @Sciencing_Bi persona, while ASU told BuzzFeed that they had no record of any such person.
As the questions swirled, the account settings were switched to private. Then late on Sunday, Twitter suspended both McLaughlin’s and the @Sciencing_Bi accounts.
“We’re aware of this activity and have suspended these accounts for violating our spam and platform manipulation policies,” a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News by email. The company declined to comment on whether it had any forensic evidence linking the two accounts to the same device or person.
A spokesperson from ASU told BuzzFeed News they had no record of any faculty matching @Sciencing_NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
There's huge money in victimhood.
Just ask Anita Sarkeesian. She's made more money in 5 years than most people will make in their entire lives after she decided to become a Professional Victim.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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IN THE NEWS TODAY ...
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Chaos In Chicago: Bridges Raised To Prevent Gun-Toting Looters Getting Downtown
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NPR fires weatherman for comparing Seattle riots to Germany in 1938 on his personal blog
"Take a walk around downtown Seattle. You will be shocked by a shuttered, dystopian city and made angry by the inaction and ineptness of its political leadership. It is simply beyond words.
...Block after block of boarded up stores, restaurants, and other buildings. A city in lockdown and afraid.
... A boarded up central core of a major U.S. city was being left to the homeless, drug dealers, and security guards. Even the most notorious, crime-ridden corner of the city had no police. The streets of the city had become a fearful abandoned place."
... Violent individuals and groups have hidden within protest groups, attempting to destroy businesses both to deliver a political message of fear and to loot their contents. Dozens of police have been seriously injured by bottles and fireworks, or partially blinded by lasers. Even in my neighborhood, graffiti calling for the killing of police have been sprayed at a prominent location. No city can remain healthy if such anti-social activities are allowed to continue unchecked."
https://thepostmillennial.com/npr-fires-weatherman-for-comparing-seatt
le-riots-to-germany-in-1938
CNN HEADLINES AT THE TIME
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Big Ten, Pac-12 to Cancel 2020 Football
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I COULDN'T DECIDE IF THIS BELONGED WITH "REAL TDS SYNDROME" OR "LIE, BIAS, AND IDIOCY"
OBVIOUSLY, I CHOSE "LIE, BIAS, AND IDOCY"
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Pelosi Calls Republicans 'Domestic Enemies Of The State'
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-calls-republicans-domestic-
enemies-state
YEP. BECAUSE TRUMP IS THE DIVISIVE ONE!
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This kind of hysteria tells me that the Democrats are desperate. They've thrown everything they can at Trump, from false accusations and forged documents to trivial and personal criticism to harping about his handlingof Covid-19, and it seems that (a) nothing has stuck and (b) nobody is enthused about the Biden/Harris ticket. (I'm shocked! Shocked! I tell you!)
I have a hint for the Democratic Party: how about you start representing the people you left behind? You might manage to find some votes there
But then, you'd have to cross your big donors ...
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I COULDN'T DECIDE IF THIS BELONGED WITH "REAL TDS SYNDROME" OR "LIE, BIAS, AND IDIOCY"
OBVIOUSLY, I CHOSE "LIE, BIAS, AND IDOCY"Quote:
Pelosi Calls Republicans 'Domestic Enemies Of The State'
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-calls-republicans-domestic-
enemies-state
YEP. BECAUSE TRUMP IS THE DIVISIVE ONE!
*****
This kind of hysteria tells me that the Democrats are desperate. They've thrown everything they can at Trump, from false accusations and forged documents to trivial and personal criticism to harping about his handlingof Covid-19, and it seems that (a) nothing has stuck and (b) nobody is enthused about the Biden/Harris ticket. (I'm shocked! Shocked! I tell you!)
I have a hint for the Democratic Party: how about you start representing the people you left behind? You might manage to find some votes there
But then, you'd have to cross your big donors ...
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Their new desperate message that summarized the long-faced, pants-crapping libtards commenting on the RNC was ….
are ya ready? ….
"Trump is a bad man. Biden is a good man." That brilliant strategy just GOTSTA work!

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College director: 'Every white person in this country is racist'
Jezzamine Wolk
*Pacific University in Oregon is hosting a weekly webinar series called “Rising from the Margins” dedicated to discussing diversity.
*In one episode, a guest claimed that every white person in the U.S. is racist because they benefit from the structure of racism.
*In another episode, the host listed three “indicators of white supremacy culture."
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Pacific University staff psychologist Dr. Shirley Ley
Quote:You should see how the Chinese measure other cultures!
is hosting a weekly webinar series called "Rising from the Margins." Ley said the platform is “dedicated to those who have been perceived as inferior or less worthy” due to their background.
In Episode 10 "The Intersection of Race, Class, and Disability," Ley spoke with the Director of Accessible Education at Willamette University Sue Minder. During that episode, uploaded to the university's official YouTube channel on July 22, Minder said, “Every white person in this country is racist" because they “benefit from the structure of racism.”
Relevant portion begins around 12:40
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When asked to confront privileges, she said that most people usually respond with “I’m not a racist, I would never use a racial slur.”
“I think the first step is we get over it,” said Minder of that reaction.
“Stop trying to pretend we don’t have privileges of some sort, because most of us do have unearned advantages,” said Minder.
In episode 11 "White Supremacy Work Culture," Ley talked about the idea that “whiteness is the supreme standard by which all peoples of culture are measured.”
I take that back: To the Chinese, there ARE no other cultures!
Quote:What are "racialized peoples"?
“It is important for us, particularly racialized peoples,
Quote:In other words, being "white" means doing the job right, doing it quickly, and being productive. Being nonwhite means being sloppy, slow, and lazy?
to understand how every single day of our existence is influenced and infiltrated by white supremacy ideals,” said Ley.
She went on to list three “indicators of white supremacy culture.”
They are "perfectionism," which she called "the need to get things done right all the time;" the "sense of urgency," which she called "the idea that things should have been done yesterday;" and "quantity over quality," which she said is "only focusing on parts of your life that are directed towards producing measurable goals."
The webinar currently has more than a dozen episodes. Some other available webinar episodes include “Racial Microaggressions,” “The POC Label,” and “Deconstructing the Model Minority Stereotype.”
Yanno, I understand that people DO react to others based on things like their sex, height, color, age, fitness etc. People who have managed to walk on boths sides of a category ... whites passing as blacks, transgender men/women, blacks passing as whites .... will tell you that there is a palpable difference in how you're treated.
It shouldn't be that way. But all of this whinging and hurt feelings are stupid.
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Democrats are terrified right now.
They've halfway destroyed the country and they still can't beat Trump.
And at one point, once all of this finally settles down, we're going to have to have a good long talk about the overreaction to COVID and the many ways in which it was the catalyst to bringing us to where we are at today.
Meanwhile...
I'm sure that Emperor Xi is cooking up something new for us.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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In an academic version of the Rachel Dozezal controversy, the New York Times is reporting that George Washington University is investigating the bizarre case of George Washington associate professor Jessica A. Krug who admitted in a Medium post Thursday that, despite publicly identifying as a black woman, she is in fact a white Jewish child from the suburbs of Kansas City. Krug has called herself a “cultural leech” and announced that she was “cancelling herself.” The Chronicle of Higher Education stated that some of the positions that she secured in teaching were due to her claimed minority status.
MORE AT https://jonathanturley.org/2020/09/04/i-absolutely-cancel-myself-gw-pr
ofessor-under-investigation-after-disclosing-that-she-is-not-black/
If you want to stop people acting like victims, stop rewarding victimization. Insist on a meritocracy.
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