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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish the world used a better term for it than “race science” since there’s nothing scientific about our socially-defined racial categories. Like, “debunked racist pseudoscience” would be a much better descriptor.

It’s as scientific as religious extremism where people say the Earth is 5,000 years old and evolution doesn’t exist. We don’t use “faith science” when talking about people who don’t believe in geology or biology. We call them “fucking morons” and stop listening to them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Racist pseudoscience

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Even though it's complete pseudo-science, the state still promotes "race science" too. There's no such thing as a caucasian, white hispanic, etc. smh. This is largely why racism persists. The state was founded by slavers who embedded it deep into their pact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It may be bred into them in the original sense of Dawkins and Blackmore's "meme," although I'm not sure how much credence that theory still holds.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The important part:

HDF received more than $1m from Andrew Conru, a Seattle businessman who made his fortune from dating websites, the recordings reveal. After being approached by the Guardian, Conru pulled his support, saying the group appeared to have deviated from its original mission of “non-partisan academic research”.

He founded AdultFriendFunder apparently

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like that they used “dating site” as the euphemism for AdultFriendFinder instead of “escort service” or “one night stand site” or whatever it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

"spambot ranch"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He founded AdultFriendFunder apparently

Was that the one that turned out to actually be a big scam and everyone on it was a man?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recall that, it was either this one or Ashley Madison. Presumably both

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, with a name like that, I'd think "sausage party."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

His name didn't come up in the article, but I would not be at all surprised if Peter Thiel is funding this sort of thing as well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

trying so hard to find the differences, but we still all bleed red.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Racists gonna race.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago

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