The highlight of my day is when Steve Sailer makes a new blog post, which often happens late at night or in the early morning (I live in Los Angeles).
The Internet facilitates jeering from the peanut gallery, which does not make professionals with previously comfortable careers happy. For example, a common joke among mainstream media pundits on Twitter is that the Trump campaign is as if the Comments Section were staging a coup against all that is right and holy.
For example, as far as I can tell from what he’s ever said, Donald Trump is pretty much of a true believer of the conventional wisdom on race. But Establishment Pundits appear to be absolutely terrified that Trump actually is aware of those horrible hatestats that keep appearing in their comments sections. Commenters keep quoting government statistics on crime by race and the like, for example, and Trump might.someday.do.that.too.
Similarly, the profession of psychology has been suffering from a Replication Crisis as many famous findings don’t seem to replicate well. Psychologists do not like being reminded of this, and tend to take mentions of this very personally, as this essay by the past president of the Association for Psychological Science suggests.
* Steve is in the Pacific zone plus as far I know he has to take of his wife (ill) during daylight hours. Doing all his family’s errands in addition to everything else.
* Youtube has just announced their new censorship system for their comments. They call the censors “heroes” and their job will be to flag videos that show thought crime, ahem, I meant hate speech and other such offensive content.
* Susan Fiske is a tenured SJW terrorist (I see her career accomplishments in the social sciences include the always-replicable and wholly-scientific theory of ‘ambivalent sexism’, which will undoubtably be taught to unassuming students via textbook for the next 50+ years and thus further destroy America).
I’m so glad to see that Ms. Fiske, in the spirit of totalitarian and hysterical feminists everywhere, would love nothing more than to censor the Internet and her triggering ‘methodological terrorists’ forevermore.
We’re onto ya, Sue! No more safe spaces!
* I think a big part of the media revolt against the readers is driven by the fact that many of the big foot media types are quite stupid. They are mostly actors today, playing a role that is scripted for them. That’s why they are sounding like comics, talking to one another backstage after a few beers. They hate the fact that have to perform in front of these people.
* Yeah, it’s hard to brainwash people when all your lies can be called out in the comments section. I mean some level of censoring needs to be done. My city has two papers. The comments section of one (the Salt Lake Tribune) is almost 100% leftwing trolls, in a way that does NOT speak well for its readers.
The other (the Mormon Church-owned Deseret News) is ridiculously overcensored in a way that stifles any sort of organic conversation and blocks almost 100% of facts the Mormon Church would prefer for you not to hear. The Deseret News has a full staff of unpaid interns at its disposal – hell, many of its articles are literally written by college sophomores – yet Steve Sailor alone is faster at reading and approving comments. A few years ago a couple of Mormon missionaries were killed when they were run over by a drunk Hispanic man in Texas. They censored any and all comments that pointed out that the perp was an illegal alien.
Newspapers are increasingly concerned about telling you what to think, and comments sections get in the way of that. I will never, ever add a site to my regular reading list that does not allow readers to comment on their output, and quasi-anonymously. It puts pressure on them to stay honest. Hell, I stopped reading NRO when they switched from Disqus to the appalling Facebook comments system.
