Doing something to a way of doing something to get a new way of doing something. Input = function 1, output = function 2. Objects are functions. Funct...
The psychiatrist Meehl called it (edit: some of the issues in the replication crisis regarding whether the observed effect in a study is actually attr...
The extremely annoying thing is that greening production of electricity works - solar and wind are just as efficient now, electric trains and buses an...
As with any suggestive one liner, I meant a few things by it. In the context of the plausible threat of collapse of our civilisation in the next 100 y...
A song for the bad side of having more reactions than actions on TFP. Pissing on parades and constant sarcasm Fly paper comments and repudiation Crap ...
Oh who could've possibly seen Bojo favouring no-deal coming at some point over the last few years. Not sarcasm at you, it's simply extremely frustrati...
:up: In the UK, people talk about race less, but there's still all kinds of racial discrimination. EG, during corona, people currently on limited leav...
Originally introduced to highlight that "being black" and "being a woman" interact together to produce different issues for black women than black peo...
:up: :up: I guess that insight is ultimately an intersectional one, no? You've got enough white signifiers to count as white in most contexts, you'll ...
I mostly agree with you, questions of when and how remain. We could go around the discussion again; my view is that so long as race based discriminati...
See this post. Racialisation doesn't have to hold together as a logically coherent story. That misses the nature and history of the phenomenon. When p...
This looks like a deflection. You seem to fully understand racialisation as a societal mechanism (people are sorted into racial categories by skin col...
Can you opt out of how your clothes look once you're in them? No. You can't opt out of your skin colour, you're born in it. The idea is that by having...
We all have a habit of responding to the style content is performed in, not just its content. How things are said matters; it invests both the sayer a...
@"jamalrob" @"StreetlightX" Been reading Graeber more intensively since I found out he died, I've got a better idea of where he was directing the rema...
Live in Norway, in the city I live in I've heard reports of racist hostility or violence against: Two Somali men, one Nigerian man, at least three Eri...
:up: We could have an argument about event as a process of semiotic restructuring and precisely how much material stuff "needs to change/go" for that ...
Whenever I've read or watched Graeber (a book, a few essays and lectures), I'm left with an impression that some way I had previously conceived of the...
@"Maw" probably has a good idea of what's going on. I think there's an interplay between the two ideas. The more of your conception of humanity you th...
I can take a guess at the Left trope Graeber's aiming at? There's a thing we do where we treat capital like an agent; capital does this, neoliberalism...
I guess this bottoms out in a question of who is white. And the kind of definition appropriate for white-ness. I think we're going to have to take the...
Spitballing here. I think that's a pretty nice framing of it. I think there are a two interacting layers to the phenomenon. Say we're dealing with a s...
I do find it plausible that the binning-by-reflexive-associations would be predictive in some circumstances though; whenever reflexive associations li...
I don't really like the implicit bias tests, I don't think they have much ecological validity in estimating the effects of racism; how similar are man...
Same! Being a white from the UK predictably had my implicit biases be pretty strong against Muslims and blacks. I don't think it's possible to eradica...
:point: :strong: With regards to what anyone can do, here is something that's been on my mind. Let's say you're generally a woke person in terms of sy...
@"Banno" gave a worked example using "stairs" for able-bodied privilege at the start of the thread, then linked an essay later in this () post. gave a...
No worries. What would you replace "white privilege" with? I'm genuinely curious, not asking in a "gotcha" way. Or if you don't agree that the role th...
Oh no. That's not what I meant at all. I simply meant that how we talk about race isn't the primary means by which systemic racism re/produces itself ...
Oh absolutely; there will be no need to use race categories to call a spade a spade here after systemic racism has been abolished. Until then, insofar...
If complicity and collaboration in an injustice both require that that injustice is illegal, it becomes impossible to be complicit with or collaborate...
Aside from complicity, how would you describe the following thing MLK highlights: ? For me there's a distinction between complicity - what I think MLK...
I decided to use an exaggerated form of you insinuating that I was racist (more likely to be racist!) to satirise your insinuation that I was (more li...
Eh, you asked me: And I answered yes and gave you a reason why. You had previously stated you would not engage with me on the substantive content beca...
I think you know that's not how it's used. It's not just about the law, though there absolutely is a component of privilege associated with the law; a...
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