Anti-white activist Ibram Kendi arrived late to the recent discussion on quantifying racism, but in time to embarrass himself.
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Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University
was suggested Last week’s National Review page said that intersectionality is “nothing more than a bad ‘woke’ version of regression analysis.”
Dr. Wilfred Riley “We can say that racism and sexism exist when nearly identical people who differ only in terms of their racial and gender characteristics, taking into account all other factors that might explain their performance, Only if it turns out that they are still being treated differently.” The differences between them are explained. ”
“This kind of true prejudice is pretty rare today,” Riley says.
“Many ‘cross-sectional’ studies that attempt to discover huge residual effects of race or gender on something specific, such as the likelihood that an individual will go to prison, literally involve two or more different groups. It just consists of unadjusted comparisons between people.” Riley. “But I don’t know how seriously people are doing this kind of analysis.”
Riley’s claims troubled a Harvard Ph.D. A student who was in a clearly unserious camp.
Kareem Carr, who calls himself a statistician,
claimed X argues that the argument that racism and sexism “essentially do not exist because if you control for all related variables such as educational background and work history, there will be no effect on income etc.” is incorrect.
Carr suggested this could explain why Reilly and others were wrong.
that ”[s]Social forces such as sexism and racism are not magic. They work through specific mechanisms in the physical world. ”
After giving special privileges to sexism and racism, Carr led his followers to imagine that the effects of “racism” could be tracked and measured.
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later admitted “It’s difficult to look at this issue objectively,” he said.
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Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, responded to Carr’s post:
ask“What is the scientific definition of ‘racism’ here? How do we measure it quantitatively? How do we determine the causal relationship from racism to intermediaries to individual incomes? mosquito?”
“With what control?” Rufo added. “So how much racism is there in America today?”
Colin Wright, the evolutionary biologist behind “”the last stand of reality,”had answer Rufo is ready: “It depends on the units you use, but assuming you’re using the U.S. standard Kendi scale, it’s about 1,619 Kendi.”
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clarified“For those unfamiliar with the Kendi scale, 1 Kendi refers to the amount of racism measured in Kendi to reach 1 Kendi.”
Ibram Kendi, real name Ibram Henry Rogers, is an identitarian scholar who runs the Center for Antiracism Research at Boston University. The center has been mired in racial tensions, recently firing half its staff and facing unfair treatment.
inquiry For allegations of employee exploitation, low pay, failure to provide half-baked research, and mismanagement of $43 million in endowments. according to to the Washington Post.
As this investigation may soon reveal, Mr. Kendi’s expertise lies not in running a think tank but rather in calling out the racism of many Americans. His antidote is clearly more racism.
“The only remedy for racism is anti-racism” Kendi
I have written “The only remedy for past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy for present discrimination is future discrimination.”
The persona Wright used in the joke appears to be a reference to Nicole Hannah-Jones’ “1619 Project.”
avoid the facts Historical revisionist spun Derivative word Contains direct contributions from Kendi.
Rufo pushed the joke further,
write“I can’t believe that in 2024, racism in America is approaching District 1,619. We need the Department of Anti-Racism to shut it down. We have 15 days to slow the spread.”
On Sunday, Kendi came up with Wright’s old joke, saying, “Racism doesn’t exist in your fantasies, but does the ‘Kendi Scale’ exist? I’m not familiar with the ‘Kendi Scale,’ but… I know a lot about racism.”
“I think this is one of the reasons why people like this become propagandists. It’s easy to deny reality and make things up,” Kendi added.
Colin Wright replied to Kendi, “It’s just a joke.”
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I got it. “Kendi took my post about measuring racism in America using the ‘Kendi Scale’, which I said appeared in ‘1619 Kendis’, to be serious. He even defined units with Kendi-like circularity.”
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