Great! A safe space!
I’m quite looking forward to the land acknowledgments, masks, pronoun lessons, denouncing JK Rowling, and snarking about illiterate deplorables.
But wait! That never happens! Right?
Wink. Wink.
Got it! Can I join your book club now?
Yes. The major news outlets are very pro-Trump. Absolutely. Never any criticism of trump in the media. Sure.
Don’t you get it?
The Guardian, Washington Post, NPR, New York Times, Wikipedia, CNN, and MSNBC?
They’ve collectively convinced 10% of the population to support violence against conservatives.
That’s apparently not enough in the mind of the OP.
Still don’t get it?
Report to the nearest teachers’ lounge for retraining.
Even NPR's reporting, with its high standard of journalism, finds itself left-of-center.
This is what happens when the overton window shift so far in such a short amount of time - organizations that stay exactly where they are appear to move left, because the window has shifted so far rightward.
Yet, “mysteriously”, pick virtually any top issue, and NPR is guaranteed to be on the left side of it. It even aired an interview defending looting. Don’t bother responding. It’ll surely be a useless response like “that’s because reality has a liberal bias”.
Some of my favorite metrics for “reality has a liberal bias” are the hypocritical issues: school choice, voter ID, fully funded policing, and limited immigration. Each of which prominent liberals have opposed, yet the vast majority of Black Americans - a constituency liberals claim to represent - support all of them.
We’re at the “that never happened” stage, eh? Brilliant!
Antifa doesn’t exist either, right?
. . . folks are figuring out that top media’s official positions were more than a little off:
- The border is secure.
- The inflation is “temporary” and “small”.
- The Steele Report is credible.
- The laptop is a Russian plant.
- The lab leak theory is propaganda.
- Opposing long term lockdowns is unscientific.
- Biden is fully mentally competent.
- Defunding police is a great idea.
- The GF riots were “mostly peaceful”.
- Judging by identity instead of merit is democratic.
- Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
- Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
- Eliminating the following “equitably” improves schools: phonics, advanced classes, standardized testing, high school graduation requirements, grouping kids by learning level, and merit based hiring.
- Restarting Nord Stream 2 and refusing to arm Ukrainians was a great idea.
- Funding Hamas and Iran was smart, and it was great that the Houthis were removed from terrorist watch lists. The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success, and Biden’s top military advisers weren’t against it.
- Harris and Biden didn’t begin office with a myriad of restrictions on fossil fuel pipelines, permits, and financing. Stopping PennEast, Keystone XL, etc were helpful actions.
- Support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, and support illegal immigration.
. . . be aware that there’s a LOT more going on behind the scenes.
While hospitals generally view their emergency services as a financial drain, they view their oncology treatment as a rather lucrative profit center, and pad their billing accordingly.
They’re robbing Peter (insurance companies) to pay Paul (federally mandated emergency care services).
So it’s arguably “the system” that deserves blame.
> aCaDEmiC paTInA... do you guys even hear yourselves? NPR does no such thing.
You win! You’re a super smart NPR listener! Here! Have a tote bag!
> The fact that NPR and MSNBC aligned on, say, the value of vaccination, that riots to take the White House are not constitutional
Huh? Every conservative news outlet basically held the same positions! The difference is they dared to present nuance when the nuance matters. For example, natural immunity is a valid consideration - most European countries allowed it to be considered as equivalent to vaccination (Germany for one). Another example, the capital riot wasn’t supported by ANY side - per numerous statements by lead politicians, unlike the far larger and fad more widespread BLM riots, which CNN minimized as “mostly peaceful” and which saw so little concern by lead democrats that they weren’t even hinted at during the 2020 Democrat National Convention.
Note also that current conservative outlets have widely reported in detail about the well documented heavy government censorship pressure experienced by Facebook, Google, and Twitter - not just about basic easily verified COVID science, but also on basic politically tinged information (Hunter’s laptop).
I screwed up trying to use a tool to simplify my references. Here are my original notes for the first four:
- Hatemi Retraction: “Why It Took Social Science Years to Correct a Simple Error About ‘Psychoticism’” (The Cut, 2016, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecut.com%2F2016%2F07...) (Retraction Watch, 2016, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fretractionwatch.com%2F20...)
- Luders, A., Carpentras, D., & Quayle, M. (2024). Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network-modelling to research attitude-identity relationships in polarized political contexts (British Journal of Social Psychology)** https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1111%2Fbjso.1...
- Krispenz, A., & Bertrams, A. (2023). “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment.” Current Psychology, 43, 2714–2730. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1007%2Fs12144...
- Costello, T. H., Bowes, S. M., Stevens, S. T., Waldman, I. D., Tasimi, A., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2022). Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(1), 135–170
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> Even more insidious to have bots assign a ton of homework...
1. Ask for citations.
2. Get citations.
3. Pretend citations are from a “bot”.
4. Refuse to follow up on citations.
5. Deflect to ungrounded hand waving.
If I had to guess
“Guessing” (plus cherry picking instead of acknowledging the clearly established overall pattern) is the perfect illustration of the Foucault’s postmodern “feelings trump empiricism” or, as Delgado essentially frames it, “empirical investigation is a tool of bigotry”. This is a core tenet of the supposedly intellectually rigorous Critical Theory which (A) is used to justify the panoply of self defeating California pedological fads that I listed, and (B) oh so conveniently gives the far-left tacit permission to ignore and avoid any fact that contradicts their position.
Florida rising to the top of the K-12 rankings (per U.S. News), Mississippi rising, Louisiana rising, and California concurrently plunging to the middle of the rankings despite spending twice as much per student than any of these “fascist” states is no “cherry picked” accident. Dig in a little bit into California’s suite of “scientific” “progressive” initiatives, and the reason becomes clear:
Mainstreaming: Place students with widely varying learning levels in the same class.
Seattle Math: This type of curriculum goes by many names. The goal is to limit expectations of mathematically correct answers, and limit rote learning of concepts like “times tables”, in favor of rewarding effort and narrative.
Whole Word Learning: Replace “phonics” - aka sounding out words according to their spelling - with rote recognition of the meaning of whole written words.
Hire based on identity: Increase the priority of group identity when judging suitability for hiring.
Drop advanced classes:Advanced classes measurably increase disparity, so simply eliminate them.
Teaching college equity: Lower standardized test based admissions requirements for teaching colleges, as these have been shown to decrease admissions of historically underrepresented groups. The corresponding SAT scores of admitted applicants have now been lowered below the median - to the 42nd percentile according to some estimates.
Restorative justice: Ensure punishment for infractions is equally apportioned according to holistic categories. This avoids disparities caused by punishment that’s made proportional to the infractions themselves.
Diversity statements: Ensure prospective new hires submit diversity statements that show an acceptance and understanding of the above ideas.
Limit standardized testing:The claim here is that such testing reveals different results for different identities, and therefore must be biased and unhelpful in helping to detect where students need help.
None of these initiatives are empirically working out except in one dimension: they reduce “disparities” by churning out a greater number of mediocre students. Bravo.
> Conservatives have shown time and time again that they don't like education
Explain why “progressive” California has precipitously dropped to near the middle of K-12 NAEP rankings, while “fascist” Florida consistently ranks near the top.
Explain how “fascist” Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida now have the top in the nation 4th grade reading scores among minorities (per DOE NAEP testing).
Explain why teachers in every single state - not just blue states - earn significantly more than the median, with far better benefits.
Here’s a hint: among other initiatives, these “fascist” states have dropped progressive fads and replaced them with back-to-basics phonics, grouping students by skill level, assigning the best teachers to take on the most troubled students, and refusing to simply socially promote students.
Last I checked, a significantly higher percentage of conservatives have graduated high school than progressives.
And the main reasons college graduates have “swung left”? Gatekeeping and lowered standards. Try get a K-12 teaching degree without signing a diversity statement or without being forced to study something like “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” (a top pedagogy book these days).
Note that the average teaching college student these days has an SAT score that’s 42 percentile - not even the median - which means the average new high school teacher isn’t as cognitively capable as the average high school student!. It’s no wonder the youngest generation is swinging right.
> Just because pop culture has gay people all over and now they are pushing trans or trying to... doesn't make the important media (news) liberal
That is strawmanning (I made no such assertion), deflecting to demonization (falsely implying I am somehow “anti-LGBT”), and overall cartoonishly broad brushing.
It's been a business doing pleasure with you.
