"Scientific" American editor responds
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@Jolly said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
What person with those type of science degrees takes a vow of poverty to write for a Left-wing rag and a biased newspaper?
You'd take her more seriously if she had a degree in media studies?
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
@Jolly said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
What person with those type of science degrees takes a vow of poverty to write for a Left-wing rag and a biased newspaper?
You'd take her more seriously if she had a degree in media studies?
In this case, yes.
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Every year some allegedly smart people say some pretty stupid things. I believe this should is a potential winning entry on a list of stupid things said by such folks.
@kluurs said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
Every year some allegedly smart people say some pretty stupid things. I believe this should is a potential winning entry on a list of stupid things said by such folks.
I would note a difference between an individual doing an individually stupid thing, and an individual secreting out of their mouthhole a stupid but socially advantageous cultural idea, held as truth by millions.
She wouldn't have her job if she wasn't a true believer. I am sure that was prerequisite for her hiring.
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It makes sense when you accept that the progressive virtue narratives are a religion. So yes, the pop culture science journal has gone religious. The way this happens, is when secular virtue ideology fills the God shaped hole in the souls of anti-religious progressives. They lack the personal insight to see the religion for what it is, but that’s where public intellectuals come in, to tell them why they think what they think.
@Horace said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
It makes sense when you accept that the progressive virtue narratives are a religion. The way this happens, is when secular virtue ideology fills the God shaped hole in the souls of anti-religious progressives.
Yes, that is an embraceable way to look at it. It's awful, and is still a mystery as to how it became so widespread, but it makes a horrible kind of sense.
It gives me comfort to believe it won't -- can't -- endure, so I'll keep doing that. But I will try not to gawp in disbelief anymore when the Lauras of the realm strut their stuff.
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Let's pretend, for just a minute, that all of you are black NFL football players.
Now, none of you belong to TNCR.
OK, so how does that feel.
You just take this privilege for granted. The pro-whiteness of this forum is inescapable.
@Copper said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
Let's pretend, for just a minute, that all of you are black NFL football players.
As a black NFL football player, I got to say I ain't down with all this whitey science shit. It don't make no sense. Me 'n my boys, we out there playin and we taken home three mil an' six mil a year, that sound exploited to you? I don't think so. I bet I'm eatin better than her cracka ass. That Science American mama-san need to be gettin real. Like my man Chris Rock sayin, bein real ain't the same thing as bein real stupid.
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@Copper said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
Let's pretend, for just a minute, that all of you are black NFL football players.
As a black NFL football player, I got to say I ain't down with all this whitey science shit. It don't make no sense. Me 'n my boys, we out there playin and we taken home three mil an' six mil a year, that sound exploited to you? I don't think so. I bet I'm eatin better than her cracka ass. That Science American mama-san need to be gettin real. Like my man Chris Rock sayin, bein real ain't the same thing as bein real stupid.
@Catseye3 said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
@Copper said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
Let's pretend, for just a minute, that all of you are black NFL football players.
As a black NFL football player, I gotta say I'n not down with all this whitey science shit. It don't make no sense. Me 'n my boys, we out there playin and we taken home three mil an' six mil a year, that sound exploited to you? I don't think so. I bet I'm eatin better than her cracka ass. That Science American mama-san need to be gettin real. Like my man Chris Rock sayin, bein real ain't the same thing as bein real stupid.
It's nice to see somebody fearlessly don virtual blackface like this.
I was only joking
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@Catseye3 said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
@Copper said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
Let's pretend, for just a minute, that all of you are black NFL football players.
As a black NFL football player, I gotta say I'n not down with all this whitey science shit. It don't make no sense. Me 'n my boys, we out there playin and we taken home three mil an' six mil a year, that sound exploited to you? I don't think so. I bet I'm eatin better than her cracka ass. That Science American mama-san need to be gettin real. Like my man Chris Rock sayin, bein real ain't the same thing as bein real stupid.
It's nice to see somebody fearlessly don virtual blackface like this.
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
@Catseye3 said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
@Copper said in "Scientific" American editor responds:
Let's pretend, for just a minute, that all of you are black NFL football players.
As a black NFL football player, I gotta say I'n not down with all this whitey science shit. It don't make no sense. Me 'n my boys, we out there playin and we taken home three mil an' six mil a year, that sound exploited to you? I don't think so. I bet I'm eatin better than her cracka ass. That Science American mama-san need to be gettin real. Like my man Chris Rock sayin, bein real ain't the same thing as bein real stupid.
It's nice to see somebody fearlessly don virtual blackface like this.
Someone had to take up the mantle of Barack Obama who used to frequent TNCR.
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It’s particularly saddening to me to see what happened to Scientific American. Why dad subscribed when I was a kid and I used to love the Mathematical Games column by Martin Gardner.
Gardner lived most of his adult life about a mile from where I live now, in a house on - wait for it - Euclid Avenue. Every time I pass it I think of those columns.
