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Artificial intelligence will dominate more and more of society. Will it be...
Brian Resnick explains research that our systems of artificial intelligence have learned to perpetuate racism and sexism just like people do. “Many people think machines are not biased,” Princeton...
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Naming aspirations
If “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” does it matter what names we have? Rafael Cruz thinks so. He is better known by his nickname, Ted Cruz, the 2016 presidential candidate from Texas...
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Median income of black men compared with white men in America
Via Kevin Drum. Presumably this is using personal income. There has been progress towards greater equality in the past half century. The ratio went from 59% up to 73% over this time, but nearly all...
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Many whites are uneasy about becoming a minority in America. It isn’t...
The media tends to use the narrowest racial definitions in order to stoke anxiety because that brings readers, but those definitions are arbitrary and more inclusive racial definitions are more...
View ArticlePrejudice is inefficient and can hurt the people with the prejudices
Inequality due to discrimination is inefficient and can even hurt the people at the top. For example, the slave states were economically backward and although the white elites were rich, they weren’t...
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Black lives matter more in countries with fewer guns. Even most police don’t...
As I’ve written before, I’m not a gun-control advocate because there are lots of other factors that can reduce violence that are more politically feasible. But the Black Lives Matter movement has...
View ArticleRacial progress: compare the riots of 1967 with the riots today. We’ve come a...
Read this classic Esquire essay from 1968. Police brutality was way worse back then. They just massacred people in some cases. White supremacist militias were more dangerous and shot more people....
View ArticleRace Vs. Class At College
David Leonhard found that elite colleges have very little economic diversity. At elite schools, only a little over 10% of the student body comes from families below the median income. William Bowen,...
View ArticleIs Wokeism bringing back a colorblind aristocratic class consciousness?
Updated March 29, 2023 Matt Yglesias argues that the old British class system had a lot of features that were eerily similar to recent trends in political correctness. For example, educational...
View ArticleDoes affirmative action in education reduce racial disparity?
The goal of affirmative action is a good one: It’s to reduce racial disparity. Like most Americans, I support this goal, but I don’t personally care much about the Supreme Court decision banning...
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