UminekoEnjoyer

Posting this here for no particular reason. No reason at all.

Asking because I haven't heard much about it that comes from reliable sources (actually reliable sources, not what Wikipedia defines as a reliable source).

The idea that politics could or should have any input into science is anathema to skeptics. They often bring out the examples of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, or the racial science of Nazi Germany, to illustrate the dangers of allowing science to be contaminated by political ideology. They less often acknowledge that racial science was not unique to Nazi Germany, and that the same kind of racist garbage was enthusiastically pursued by scientists in the most enlightened liberal democracies of the time, and found in all the standard British and American anthropology textbooks. Eugenics, including racial eugenics, wasn't just supported by Nazis, but by people who considered themselves among the vanguard of all that was good and progressive. Liberal democracy was no guard against the influence of political ideology on scientific thought. (On the contrary, liberal democracy is a political ideology that influences scientific thought.)

What's more, skeptics never acknowledge that racial science was defeated by political ideology, and not by science itself. In fact, there was nothing that could have defeated it within the empirical framework of racial scientists. Their racist experiments confirmed their racist hypotheses based on their racist observations. But while the science supported them, politics, in the aftermath of World War 2 and the Holocaust, did not. After 1945, racial science became politically unacceptable in western liberal democracies, and remains so in spite of the various attempts to revive it. It was not disproved by the scientific method; instead, the political ideologies behind racial science were discarded, and replaced by new ones that did not accommodate it.

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My Confession

New historical notes on Judge Holden, Glanton, Tobin, and the rest

Good thing is that we can confidently say that the real deal is burning in hell, unlike in the book.

I've been feeling quite down today, so I decided to post the one thing that made me laugh today on here.

IMO I'd probably have to go with Jimmy from Mouthwashing. I think that he's a very good representation of a very real kind of person. A person who is narcissistic, who is unable to take accountability for his actions, and who refuses to see himself as a monster, even as he continuously does monstrous things. He's basically like a co-worker from hell, which is part of why he's so horrifying.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9908317

I saw a funny meme that made fun of the surveillance double standard in the western countries, but I'm still skeptical because I don't want to go anywhere near the political side of Reddit, so I'm asking you guys what it's like there.