Although “economists” like Richard Wolff cite graphs showing that extreme poverty began to plummet in China during Mao Zedong’s rule, Ravallion (2021) finds no basis for this argument. In fact, he finds that the overwhelming amount of poverty in China could be attributed to Mao’s communist policies, and poverty then sharply declined following Deng Xiaoping’s free market reforms in the 90s.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w28370

Response to Kevin Drum's article

Here’s Why the Black-White IQ Gap Is Almost Certainly Environmental
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/06/heres-why-the-black-white-iq-gap-is-almost-certainly-environmental/

response:

https://medium.com/@cremieux/resolute-ignorance-on-race-and-iq-courtesy-of-kevin-drum-d9cbf930f7db
https://archive.vn/NdCzf

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#race #intelligence
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How positively (or negatively) Americans, by partisan affiliation, view several countries
Source: https://www.unz.com/anepigone/our-greatest-ally-eh-2/

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#audaciousepigone #republicans #democrats #canada #china #france #germany #israel #iran #japan #northkorea #southkorea #mexico #russia #unitedkingdom
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Even the guardian admits this

"However, a number of scientific papers have recently shown people who have undergone male puberty retain significant advantages in power and strength even after taking medication to suppress their testosterone levels."

https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/05/trans-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard-set-to-make-history-at-tokyo-olympics

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#LGBT #trans #sport
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If you know some normie friends who are pro LGBT then show them this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Bc9UoxklQ

Full documentary:
https://youtu.be/oN4w8e432_o?t=1

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#LGBT
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Very informative reddit thread that adresses anti hereditarian fallacies

Fallacious or Otherwise Bad Arguments against heredity
https://archive.fo/hyH2h

https://archive.fo/j9ezn

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#hereditarianism #race #intelligence
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Admixture in the Americas: Regional and National Differences

"We find that European ancestry is consistently and usually strongly positively correlated with cognitive ability and socioeconomic outcomes"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298214364_Admixture_in_the_Americas_Regional_and_National_Differences

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Blacker schools have more experienced teachers with more formal education and more pay (Table 12):

https://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/u4/Corcoran%20et%20al.pdf

This is not a recent development either, the pay gap roughly equalized all the way back in the 1950s

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/2118326

🎥 MILITARY ANECDOTE, THE LEBANESE WAR

🎙 French youtuber and former military man 'Reinho' give his take on the current events unfolding in France by telling the not so well known story of the Lebanese civil war.

🔗 Source

@frfootage

"systematic review comprising 160,257 participants from varied geographic regions, including Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania suggest those who abstained from meat consumption had a greater risk or prevalence of depression, anxiety, and self-harm"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2020.1741505

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#mentalhealth #food #meat
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Here are some examples of cancel culture i collected

A high-ranking Norfolk Police officer who was found donating to the defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse has been fired from the police department.
https://archive.is/oEHWL

Cancel culture is real — and it’s getting worse
https://unherd.com/thepost/cancel-culture-is-real-and-its-getting-worse/

Loudoun County Crazy: Diversity Council Says ‘We Can And We Will Silence The Opposition’
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/29/loudoun-county-crazy-diversity-council-says-we-can-and-we-will-silence-the-opposition/

Ulster University withdraws status from Prof Richard Lynn
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-northern-ireland-43768132

Politically incorrect paper, claiming that women in science fare better with male rather than female mentors, gets criticized and there is a push to retract it.
Nature Communications looking into paper on mentorship after strong negative reaction
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/11/19/nature-communications-looking-into-paper-on-mentorship-after-strong-negative-reaction/
The paper:
The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19723-8

Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?
https://quillette.com/2020/11/07/gender-activists-are-trying-to-cancel-my-book-why-is-silicon-valley-helping-them/

Politics in Academia: A Case Study
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/202011/politics-in-academia-case-study

Cancelled by his college
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/march-2021/cancelled-by-his-college/

Two professors were fired for talking in private about true empirical observations about the racial composition of their classes.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/georgetown-law-professor-racist-remarks-sandra-sellers-black-students.amp#click=https://t.co/bmO0ZbSWIV

Student banned for discrimination after saying ‘Rule, Britannia
https://archive.is/uhrrX

Duke Professor Steps Down After Warning of “Unintended Consequences” if Students Didn’t Speak English
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/megan-neely-duke-professor-steps-down-after-calling-on-students-to-speak-english.html

James Watson fired after coming out as a racialist: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/25cnd-watson.html?_r=0

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/

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