What the actual fuck

[jon-nyc]

You know the great conceling is upon us when GMU professors aren’t safe.

Robin Hanson?

Seriously Horace?

[jon-nyc]

[Loki]

He seems to love to call attention to himself. He should reflect on that.

[Rainman]

"Join Twitter to get the full story. . ."

No thanks.

[Klaus]

What was the original post? It seems to be deleted.

[89th]

[Klaus]

I completely fail to understand this.

What's wrong with fried chicken and watermelon? Is that also political these days?

[89th]

There's a stereotype that black people like to eat fried chicken and watermelon. Unfortunately we're in a society now that recoils at any black generalization? I don't even know any more.

It seems fine to talk about cultures, holidays, and associated foods enjoyed on that day...such as talking about eating tacos on a mexican-related holiday, or talking about eating pho during a Vietnamese-related event. Heck, Americans eating hot dogs and hamburgers on July 4th!

[Klaus]

Thanks for the explanation. I still don't understand in what sense the post from Hanson can be conceived to be racist, even when I put my "woke" goggles on. Cultural appropriation? Or the post is considered to somehow make fun of black culture?

[Doctor Phibes]

This is from 2014....

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/heres-why-your-fried-chicken-and-watermelon-lunch-racist/357814/

[89th]

I get there's historical baggage with some of this, but the sooner we move away from it and into the present, the better off we'll all be. Maybe I'm naive.

[George K]

Lenny Bruce:

FF to about 5:15

Link to video

[Doctor Phibes]

TBH, I can't believe he'd be dumb enough to post that Tweet.

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@Doctor-Phibes said in What the actual fuck:

TBH, I can't believe he'd be dumb enough to post that Tweet.

+1

[jon-nyc]

I’m not shocked, he’s totally on the spectrum, almost off it in fact. It’s part of what makes him interesting.

Maybe there’s some ableist woke defense for the neuro-atypical professor.

[Loki]

@jon-nyc said in What the actual fuck:

I’m not shocked, he’s totally on the spectrum, almost off it in fact. It’s part of what makes him interesting.

Okay, that makes more sense.

[jon-nyc]

He was the guy behind prediction markets, he even had a contract with the DoD to build one predicting terrorist events which was canceled once people framed it as ‘giving people the ability to profit off of death’ or whatever.

More recently he was the most prominent proponent of “variolation”, or intentional infection of volunteers with low levels of virus to move us to herd immunity.

[Loki]

@jon-nyc said in What the actual fuck:

You know the great conceling is upon us when GMU professors aren’t safe.

Seriously Horace?

Getting back to this, I don’t think we could find a finer Concelebrant than Horace.

[Mik]

Yes, it was a foolish thing to tweet and should. Yes, we need to GROW A THICKER SKIN.

[Jolly]

Times are too good...