The White House Vision for Dismantling Science in One Simple Plot

(Proposed NIH, NSF, and NASA budgets would be catastrophic for innovation and discovery. But they aren’t reality yet. The time to speak up is now.)

joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...

There are too many double-negatives here for me to parse. Can I kindly request that every post like this begin with "Good news:" or "Bad news:"?

Many traits are more common among the people who have tended to hold power in Western cultures. Yes, white, but also male, older, English-speaking, businesspersons, etc. But the author suggests only one (whiteness) that correlates with being "hollow and thin-skinned". Seems a bit gratuitous.

IDK. There are a lot of people, from a lot of different ethnicities and races, that are "hollow and thin skinned." I'd love to see the study that shows that skin color is predictive of such characteristics, if such a study could be done.

Whiteness?? Wow.

Can you give pointers to what is allowed in terms of how to respond in a case like this? If these are police officers, I assume there isn't much that can be done legally to intervene. But if they are private security (or plain-clothes police?), then how forcefully can one intervene?

That's an impressive final statement, as the list of contenders is long. Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, ...

While I agree that it is not the most well-reasoned or accurate passage, we mock its perspective to our own detriment. Progressives need to start choosing their hills to die on more carefully, IMO.

I don't believe you were paying attention the first time around, then.

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