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RE: Noteworthy News
August 30, 2024 at 5:24 am
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RE: Noteworthy News
August 30, 2024 at 7:18 am
(August 30, 2024 at 5:24 am)Belacqua Wrote: I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
-- W.H. Auden
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Noteworthy News
August 30, 2024 at 11:26 am
Conservative opponents of DEI may not be as colorblind as they claim
Quote:In the first study, we asked participants to read a job advertisement from either a company that emphasizes DEI or a company that emphasized teamwork and good professional relationships. Then, participants rated their interest in the job and how fair they thought the company was. In later studies, they also indicated how well they thought they’d fit in.
We found that participants who scored higher on our measure of conservatism expressed significantly less interest in pursuing a job at the company promoting DEI, and viewed it as less fair compared with the company promoting teamwork.
We then added symbolic racism to our statistical model. Once we did that, our measure of conservatism no longer predicted job interest or perceived fairness in the pro-DEI company condition.
In other words, symbolic racism accounted for the effect of conservatism on outcomes in the DEI condition. This suggests that conservative participants’ reactions to DEI aren’t independent from symbolic racism.
We expanded on these findings in our following studies. In the second study, participants were randomly assigned to read descriptions of similar pro-DEI or pro-teamwork companies. Additionally, half of the participants were told why the organization supported either DEI or teamwork, and the other half were not.
We found that participants who scored higher on conservatism expressed less interest in applying for a job at the pro-DEI company and viewed it as being less fair, regardless of whether DEI – or teamwork – was clearly tied to job-related criteria.
We estimated statistical models similar to the ones we built in the first study. And we again found that when we added symbolic racism to our statistical model, negative views of the DEI company disappeared. Thus, negative reactions to the pro-DEI organization seemed to reflect race-related rather than job-related concerns.
In the third study, participants read job advertisements for a pro-DEI, pro-teamwork or pro-family-values company. The pro-family-values company was described as seeking to preserve traditional values.
We found that participants who more strongly endorsed conservatism were more interested in applying for a job at that company, and viewed it as more fair and a better “fit” in the pro-family-values scenario. The opposite was true of reactions to the pro-DEI company.
When we added symbolic racism to our models, we found that positive views of the pro-family-values company remained significant, but negative views of the pro-DEI company disappeared. This suggests that opposition to DEI is rooted in anti-Black racism, not concerns about politics.
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RE: Noteworthy News
August 30, 2024 at 11:30 am
(August 30, 2024 at 7:18 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: (August 30, 2024 at 5:24 am)Belacqua Wrote: I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
-- W.H. Auden
How is this Noteworthy News?
Yeah it really belongs in the quotes thread...but Bel's a rebel like that.
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August 30, 2024 at 11:55 am
Trump Issues Clear Threat to Mark Zuckerberg Ahead of the Election
Quote:In his new book, Donald Trump threatens billionaire and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with prison.
Save America, set to be published next week, includes a photograph of Zuckerberg and Trump at the White House. Underneath the photo, Trump wrote that Zuckerberg “would come to the Oval Office to see me” and “bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be, while always plotting install shameful Lock Boxes in a true PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.”
Trump went on to pin some of his election conspiracies on Zuckerberg, and gave him a serious warning.
“He told me there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me. We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Trump (or perhaps his ghostwriter) wrote.
It’s not the first time Trump has threatened the Meta mogul with prison. In July, he called out “ZUCKERBUCKS,” saying a Trump administration would “pursue Election Fraudsters at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time.”
Zuckerburg responded by sucking up to Trump, calling him “badass” for raising his fist following the assassination attempt against him at a Pennsylvania rally. And earlier this week, Zuckerburg wrote to Congress expressing regrets over “demoting” the 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, waiting for fact-checkers to review it, drawing a gleeful response from Trump on Truth Social.
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August 30, 2024 at 12:31 pm
^I wonder why Zuckerberg would suck up. He can buy more lawyers and judges than Trump can.
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RE: Noteworthy News
August 30, 2024 at 12:33 pm
And in this case at least, nothing Zuckerberg is doing is illegal. It's his platform, he gets to make the rules.
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RE: Noteworthy News
August 30, 2024 at 12:37 pm
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(August 30, 2024 at 12:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^I wonder why Zuckerberg would suck up. He can buy more lawyers and judges than Trump can.
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RE: Noteworthy News
August 30, 2024 at 1:10 pm
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The oligarchs dilemma - do I curry favor with lawyers and judges, or with a king. Ha, trick question proles, it's both!
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RE: Noteworthy News
August 31, 2024 at 11:33 pm
John Green and major publishing houses sue Florida over book ban laws
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