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Heather Mac Donald:
“…The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is a peer-reviewed journal that claims to publish “only the highest quality scientific research.” Now, the authors of a 2019 PNAS article are disowning their research simply because I cited it.
Psychologists Joseph Cesario of Michigan State and David Johnson of the University of Maryland analyzed 917 fatal police shootings of civilians from 2015 to test whether the race of the officer or the civilian predicted fatal police shootings. Neither did. Once “race specific rates of violent crime” are taken into account, the authors found, there are no disparities among those fatally shot by the police. These findings accord with decades of research showing that civilian behavior is the greatest influence on police behavior.
In September 2019, I cited the article’s finding in congressional testimony. I also referred to it in a City Journal article, in which I noted that two Princeton political scientists, Dean Knox and Jonathan Mummolo, had challenged the study design. Messrs. Cesario and Johnson stood by their findings. Even under the study design proposed by Messrs. Knox and Mummolo, they wrote, there is again “no significant evidence of anti-black disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by the police.”
My June 3 Journal op-ed quoted the PNAS article’s conclusion verbatim. It set off a firestorm at Michigan State. The university’s Graduate Employees Union pressured the MSU press office to apologize for the “harm it caused” by mentioning my article in a newsletter. The union targeted physicist Steve Hsu, who had approved funding for Mr. Cesario’s research. MSU sacked Mr. Hsu from his administrative position. PNAS editorialized that Messrs. Cesario and Johnson had “poorly framed” their article—the one that got through the journal’s three levels of editorial and peer review.
Mr. Cesario told this page that Mr. Hsu’s dismissal could narrow the “kinds of topics people can talk about, or what kinds of conclusions people can come to.” Now he and Mr. Johnson have themselves jeopardized the possibility of politically neutral scholarship. On Monday they retracted their paper. They say they stand behind its conclusion and statistical approach but complain about its “misuse,” specifically mentioning my op-eds.
The authors don’t say how I misused their work. Instead, they attribute to me a position I have never taken: that the “probability of being shot by police did not differ between Black and White Americans.” To the contrary, I have, like them, stressed that racial disparities in policing reflect differences in violent crime rates. The only thing wrong with their article, and my citation of it, is that its conclusion is unacceptable in our current political climate.
This retraction bodes ill for the development of knowledge…”
John Solomon:
“…It was in London that the whole Russia collusion caper began four years ago, so it seems only fitting that as the discredited probe enters its final phase that damning new evidence of the FBI’s failures would emerge back in England.
This week when a British judge ruled against the former FBI human source Christopher Steele, the decision delivered more than an order for the former spy’s company to pay damages to two Russian businessmen maligned by his dossier.
It also introduced new incontrovertible evidence that bolsters Attorney General William Barr’s and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s probe into whether the FBI engaged in misconduct and criminally deceived the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to win permission to spy on the Trump campaign…”
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U.S. Army says following are evidence of “White Supremacy” (i.e. – racism):
Saying “Make America Great Again”
“Education Funding from Property Taxes”
“Calling the Police on Black People”
Using the phrase “All Lives Matter”— Mo Brooks (@RepMoBrooks) July 8, 2020
DeBlasio painted Black Lives Matter on the street in front of Trump Tower. Does he think every tax payer in New York City agrees with that action?
What if somebody else paints Christian Lives Matter, or Jewish Lives Matter on the street? Would they be arrested for vandalism?
The depths of stupidity that the Democrats and the left have reached is remarkable.
The mental weakness of a large portion of society is surprising and alarming.
Amid societal unrest, woke white women are proving to be a brainwashed force to be reckoned with.
A interesting piece.
“…That is a form of racism and white supremacy and white control to say that all Black people need to be Democrat and to assume that me running is me splitting the vote. All of that information is being charged up on social media platforms by Democrats. And Democrats used to tell me, the same Democrats have threatened me. . . . The reason why this is the first day I registered to vote is because I was scared. I was told that if I voted on Trump my music career would be over. I was threatened into being in one party. I was threatened as a celebrity into being in one party. I was threatened as a Black man into the Democratic party. And that’s what the Democrats are doing, emotionally, to my people. Threatening them to the point where this white man can tell a Black man if you don’t vote for me, you’re not Black…”
The choice could not be more clear for 2020.
https://twitter.com/samanthamarika1/status/1279233948720087040
Smart young gal.
Facebook To Require Masks In All Profile Pictures https://t.co/yTNAl30g3b
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 8, 2020
Kids need to be back in school. Kids are not especially susceptible to the Covid virus. Teachers can protect themselves though the usual means.
Except for black on white random violence seen in numerous twitter videos over the last few weeks. Oh wait, those are not classified as hate crimes because the skin color of the parties is reversed. My mistake.
Students ‘furthest from educational justice’ should be addressed first, policy suggests.
How about everybody is treated equal without regard to skin color or liberal pieties.
I wonder how the state would determine who is nonwhite, who is deserving of a priority, and who is not? Are some nonwhite racial groups more deserving than others? I am Italian by ancestry (though I identify as “American”) am I white? What makes me white? Skin color? How much brown is allowed before a white person is identified as nonwhite? What are the defining characteristics of white versus nonwhite? How are the defining characteristics measured? Is it a physical measuring device placed against the skin? Who is responsible for taking the measurements? Who is responsible for certifying the preferred nonwhite status of students?
Racist crap is racist crap. Democrat nitwits.
Doesn’t anyone care enough for this poor fellow to stop this? It’s beyond politics now. This is cruelty. pic.twitter.com/VH5LScPqWo
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 9, 2020
Biden says, "I believe this, every fiber of my being: we're posed. What I proposed is … (long pause) … it can be done."
Eventually he gives up on trying to read what's in front of him. #BarelyThereBiden pic.twitter.com/2mtxLeWJPM
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 8, 2020
Fake research, fake media, fake news, fake celebrities fake elite society. She sees a chance to make money while polishing her virtue for her fellow elites. If you believe the fake, it is your own fault.