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Elon Musk launches hostile bid for Twitter (4-14-22)
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Checking Out Of The National Project
Time: 4 Ways That the Pandemic Changed How We See Ourselves
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Elite v Popular Discourse on Crime & Race & Subway shooter (4-13-22)
00:00 Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself, https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/
35:00 Elliott Blatt joins
37:30 Ethan Ralph’s upcoming corn harvest
41:00 With Mr Metokurs health problems, when he appears he’s like Elvis
49:00 Maybe Elliott should postpone doing his taxes and go out and enable an alcoholic who might then care about him
1:20:00 Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory by Stephen Turner, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143297
1:45:00 What’s wrong with social science? https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
1:50:00 The Replication Crisis: Crash Course Statistics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzEGSm23y8
2:23:00 Trump Poses a Test Democracy Is Failing, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/opinion/trump-democracy-decline-fall.html
2:27:00 John Hinckley Jr, who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, will play SOLD-OUT show in Brooklyn this summer after serving 35 years in psychiatric hospital, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10715141/amp/Man-tried-assassinate-Ronald-Reagan-1981-play-sold-concert-Brooklyn-summer.html
Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory
Stephen Turner writes in 2020:
Rates of crime for Blacks in the United States in the post-slavery era have always been high relative to Whites. But explaining, or minimizing, this fact faces a major problem: individual excuses for bad acts point to deficiencies, in the agent, which are perhaps forgivable, such as mental deficiency or a deprived childhood, but at the price of treating the agent as less than a full member of the moral community. Collectivizing excuses risks
implying group inferiority. The history of attempts to provide an explanation of crime that mitigates blame without undermining full participation to the moral community is long and convoluted, leading to the presently widespread claim that crime is itself a product of victimization through pervasive racism. Three basic strategies – rejection of comparison, attribution to racially invariant causes and explanation by reference to uniquely Black conditions, such as subculture or extreme stigmatization – are identified and their ethical implications distinguished.