Do genes determine intelligence?
Both conservatives and liberals are ignoring the realities of biology
Do genes determine intelligence?
Both conservatives and liberals are ignoring the realities of biology
How Brahmins lead the fight against white privilege
Upper-class Indians are prominent in America’s radical racial politics despite centuries of privilege
How Brahmins lead the fight against white privilege
Upper-class Indians are prominent in America’s radical racial politics despite centuries of privilege
How Brahmins lead the fight against white privilege
Upper-class Indians are prominent in America’s racial politics despite centuries of privilege
Is everyone racist and I’m not aware?
The expulsion of two young black men from Starbucks is in the news, and people are sharing their experiences. To be honest I’m not surprised that this happened to young black men. What I am surprised by are South Asians who express their own fear of being seen to not buy anything (in part to … Continue reading “Is everyone racist and I’m not aware?”
Less intelligent people want to exclude racists from the public square
Logit Coefficients B SE(B) Probability SEX 0.739 0.217 0.001 DEGREE -0.302 0.092 0.001 WORDSUM -0.338 0.068 0 POLVIEWS -0.078 0.078 0.317 INCOME -0.026 0.06 0.671 AGE 0.007 0.007 0.283 ATTEND 0.09 0.046 0.05 GOD -0.018 0.077 0.819 Constant 3.341 0.937 0 It’s been a while since I’ve done much GSS blogging. Part of […]
Miss America, Nina Davuluri, does not look like Miss India
Miss America 2013 is an Indian American woman, Nina Davuluri. This has predictably ushered in lots of sad and sometimes so-sad-it’s-funny (frankly) racism on Twitter. But there’s another interesting angle: a friend pointed out that Nina Davuluri is probably too … Continue reading →
More racist: white liberals or white conservatives?
Reihan Salam has a post up on the alignment of racism and political orientation. He begins:
Recently, Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s UP with Chris Hayes, made the following observation:
It is undeniably the case that racist Americans are almost entire…
A mismeasured Mismeasurement of Man
I would say The Mismeasurement of Man is one of the most commonly cited books on this weblog over the years (in the comments). It comes close to being “proof-text” in many arguments online, because of the authority and eminence of the autho…
Kala verboten!
Pubs bar African nationals in Bangalore: At most of these bars and pubs, blacks are generally frowned upon. In most cases, a group of black males, unaccompanied by women gets responses varying from a polite – “sorry, prior reservation needed” to the outright rude – “please leave”. At one of the sports bars, which had […]
Is “Game of Thrones” racist? Not even wrong….
One of the aspects of fiction is that it serves as a Rorschach test. Over at Slate Nina Shen Rastogi has a post up, Is “Game of Thrones” Racist?:
The Dothraki are dark, with long hair they wear in dreadlocks or in matted braids. They sport …
Female race consciousness as prudence
Big Think has a post, Do Women Value Ethnicity Over Income in a Mate?:
The results are striking. An African-American man would have to earn $154,000 more than a white man in order for a white woman to prefer him. A Hispanic man would need to earn $77,000 more than a white man, and Asian man […]
How much more racist are white conservatives than white liberals?
A few weeks ago there were a bunch of stories on how white the audience was at Glenn Beck’s rally. That’s empirically true, and the Tea Party movement as a whole is overwhelmingly white. So is the American conservative movement. This in a nation which is ~65% white in a colloquial sense (i.e., white Hispanics […]