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I can just hear the creationists going nuts over this... "My grandfather wasn't a monkey, and he didn't have sex with one, either!"

This explains so much.

I was being serious. This is my finals week I'll write about it some other time...

Ah I see. You guys actually count votes before calling a winner! Imagine that... We just let the newspeople take exit poles and then project the numbers through some kind of model.

So call me stupid, but I've been to a few websites and I still can't figure out who won. Did anybody win? Labour has the most seats, right? This is all very confusing.

I could write volumes on it, I wrote grants for one of the big biomedical research institutions-- one with an endowment of over $1 billion. I know all about the politics of fundraising and how it affects science, and, fancy this, I still think naturalist epistemology beats wild speculation any...

I don't remember anyone telling you that you couldn't be Asian. If you didn't identify as Asian, someone calling you a ch*** is basically mistaking you for Asian- no? Our racial identifications are not genetic. Droid keeps referring to his genetics as if they are what make him either Asian or...

Yes, imagine- a human being calibrated the detector in the first place, so who's to say that they weren't completely biased and prejudicial in their application of technique that's been honed through years of data analysis and careful mechanical engineering?

Oh good lord, Mad Men? Mad Men? That show is terrible... talk about an example of a show that relies on "irony" to weasle out of being pinned down for sexism...

Somebody's sarcasm detector needs recalibrating.

Is this a joke? Are you people serious? Zhao did no such thing, I read through the entire thread as it was happening. I'm sorry people picked on you for being Asian-- people picked on me and called me a goomba, a WOP, a guido, and kike! Whoopdie-do, join the club, none of this has any...

Is this a joke that I'm too dense to get? Edit: Ok, I'll deign to reply to this. Scientists (but not "science", since "science" is not some disembodied entity that makes decisions and has cognitive faculties like a human) absolutely do acknolwedge the fact that what they claim is the outcome of...

That actually made me laugh a little. As far as I'm concerned, the social sciences can keep their semantic arguments and baseless claims that are unfalsifiable, rarely replicated and almost never stand up to actual data. We'll take splitting atoms and airplanes and organ transplants and...

My sentiments exactly. Everytime someone's brought up a hard social constructivist argument recently I just think, "1994 called and it wants its shitty academic rhetoric back". I can't even believe that people are still talking about this shit, I really can't.

Ha, well... it's not that they're the only ones who can do it, it's that, if you're what most people would see as white and you're going to talk about the oppression of others using overtly racist memes, be prepared for what will surely follow... And I would say no to this, but really, that...

To what end? That's really the question, isn't? I mean, most of his readers know that type of thing existed, right? Whom/what is he really teaching there? There are some statements that I think can only be made effectively by certain groups. I really think that cartoon may have worked IFF it...

Don't rock the boat! Just go with the flow, man. All that static is clouding our universalist visions. (Just think, it could be even more fun- you could be calling out both white AND male privilege on a net forum. Almost as much fun as it is trying to do it IRL. j/k...)

I understand your point, but depicting these things as if they're in the past, or somehow archaic, can be an issue in and of itself-- the Mexican government got in trouble a few years ago for printing a Sambo postage stamp.

On this point, a professor of mine from grad school had some interesting comments. A film guy. He was talking about the rape scene in The Accused, and different versions of blackface-as-shock-and-horror-for-white-benefit in films (he may have even used Bamboozled here? can't remember), and he...

No, it's not an "assumption", it's a reality. Woebot and others were talking about a word that originated in American slang, and most probably, black American slang, wikipedia notwithstanding. What else was I to "assume" he meant in the context, when he brought up gangs? That this was some sort...