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reposting David’s repost of Scott Alexander’s leaked neoreaction and race science emails

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  • At the risk of kind of picking around the edges here ... something caught my eye in #5:

    Michael successfully alerted me to the fact that crime has risen by a factor of ten over the past century, which seems REALLY IMPORTANT and nobody else is talking about it and it seems like the sort of thing that more people than just Michael should be paying attention to.

    This claim is ridiculous. The homicide rate in the US was something like 30 or 40 per 100,000 people in colonial times, reducing every century, and it's around 5 right now, since the increase from the 1960s - 1990s has gone back down.

    Maybe, in the past 100 years, we have passed so many bajillion new statutes that it has increased crime tenfold, but that's not what the reactionaries are saying at all.

    • Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin

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  • My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”

    I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.