[THREAD OF GRAPHS]

People believe what they want to believe. Rightoids believe immigrants in the US commit a lot of crime (they don't) and leftoids think immigration in Europe from the Muslim world has been been good (it's been a disaster).

New stats tell the story for the US.

The Cato Institute just released a report on incarceration and immigration status in the US. (Link at end of this thread.)

As you can see below, the 2023 data fits the multi-year data: Immigrants (especially legals) are, overall, incarcerated less often than the native-born.

But if you look at the data by region, you'll notice an important exception: Illegal immigrants from Latin America were incarcerated at a higher rate than native-born Latinos (although that rate is still below the overall native-born rate.)

The NYU website has been hacked.

This is its main page right now: A graph showing the discrepancies between the mean SAT scores of different racial groups, highlighted by the massive difference between Asians (1485) and blacks (1289) — a nearly 200-point difference.

A prayer: Please God let hackers do this to every single elite university in America.

The number of times a top 40 private university in the US has voluntarily released its race-related SAT data in the past twenty years: Zero.

(You have to sue them and get them to discovery to get the data.)

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook and Instagram "are going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes, similar to X."

Zuckerberg: Our fact-checkers "have been too politically biased... What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas. And it's gone too far."

Zuckerberg further announces that "trust and safety" (i.e., Facebook and Instagram's censorship team) is going to be moved from California to Texas.

Oh, the symbolism, the symbolism of it.

The argument that January 6 was an attempted coup is as follows:

The assembled crowd (or "mob" if you prefer) that had listened to Trump lie about a "stolen election" and declare that it was Mike Pence's duty to refuse to certify Biden's victory immediately moved on to the Capitol building — in its initial entry violently forcing its way into the building, injuring dozens of police officers —to attempt to stop or disrupt a joint session of Congress from formalizing Biden's victory, which, had they ultimately been successful, would have forced the country into a constitutional crisis in which Trump might have been able to maintain power.

Whether or not this sequence of events was part of a deliberate plan by Trump to stop a legitimate transfer of power (in which case it would have indeed been an attempted coup) or just a case of things getting out of control with an emotional crowd — a sequence of events that Trump had neither planned nor wanted —is a matter of debate.

But to "literally not understand how people could entertain that it was an attempted coup" is an indicator of hyperpartisan cognitive impairment.

To refresh the memory of those people who are going to come into these replies with videos of people strolling inside the velvet ropes.

Do I think it was an attempted coup? I do not, because I don't think the intentionality existed at the top to use a violent mob to stop the transfer of power.

No person has ever brought ignominy and disrepute upon a once-respected publication as quickly and decisively as this ridiculous woman.

No, women aren't as fast as men. No, racism doesn't explain the near-complete absence of blacks in scientific innovation. No, EO Wilson wasn't a white supremacist. No, the lab-leak theory for COVID origins isn't a "rightwing hoax." And on and on.

Science.

[THREAD]

1/ At a South African university, an argument is made to eliminate science from study (because it's a "product of Western modernity) and to "restart [it] from an African perspective."

What should be studied? The speaker suggests "black magic."

2/ When a "science person" objects, he is scolded by the organizer for "disrespecting the sacredness of this space," and asked to apologize, which he does. But that doesn't stop the scolding. Opinions can only be expressed under rules that appear to guide outcomes.

3/ The "black magic" advocate then adds that, despite the fact that she took some science in high school, she decided to not be on the science faculty because science stands in the way of "decolonization."

(Note: Africa was decolonized over 50 years ago.)