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Category Archives: Race
Why Do LLMs Capitalize ‘Black’ But Not ‘White’?
Claude says: Convention, not conviction. The Associated Press and most major outlets capitalized Black as a proper noun referring to a cultural and ethnic identity while leaving white lowercase on the grounds that white Americans lack the same shared historical … Continue reading
Decoding Racial Profiling
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory, arguments over racial profiling are not primarily about crime control or civil liberties. They are about alliance signaling, status protection, and who gets moral authority over the state’s coercive power. What profiling debates are really sorting. … Continue reading
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Why Do Elites Want To Restrict Speech?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory says this is exactly what you should expect. Elites sit at the center of high-status coordination networks. Their power depends on shared narratives, moral framings, and reputation systems staying stable. Speech that destabilizes those narratives threatens … Continue reading
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NYT: Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
Given that anything that violates one’s hero system is experienced as harm, the category of “harm” governing academic research must be rife with abuse that advances one hero system over another. Mike McIntire writes for the New York Times: Genetic … Continue reading
The Zero-Sum Nature Of Group Competition
On Dec. 15, 2025, UCLA psychology professor David Pinsof wrote: Stereotypes are savvy. Our beliefs about religious, ethnic, occupational, and geographic groups are pretty accurate. The accuracy of our stereotypes is one of the most robust and well-replicated findings in … Continue reading
Why Golf Courses Sometimes Divide Up On Race
Some of my Jewish friends love golf because everyone on the course has WASP manners. Steve Sailer writes: One of the more reasonable outlets for President Trump’s Edifice Complex is his interest in Washington D.C.’s three municipal golf courses. Trump … Continue reading
Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)
I ask Grok to critique this 2024 book by Steve Sailer: Steve Sailer’s Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023) (published in 2024 by Passage Publishing) is a sprawling anthology of essays spanning five decades of the author’s career as a journalist, … Continue reading
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Norman Podhoretz On Race
Grok says: Norman Podhoretz’s essay “My Negro Problem—And Ours,” published in Commentary magazine in February 1963, is a deeply personal and provocative exploration of race relations in mid-20th-century America, filtered through the author’s experiences growing up in a racially mixed … Continue reading
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The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
Richard Alba writes in this 2020 book: The third chapter addresses the question: how do Americans arrive at ideas about ethno – racial change in their society? The notion that whites will become a numerical minority has been around at … Continue reading
Diversity and Its Limits
Charles Murray writes for Claremont Review of Books: * The crisis of American democracy demands a clear-eyed understanding of the ways in which differences in ethnic groups and some sources of political polarization are never going to be resolved. * … Continue reading