Tag: stereotypes

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A university professor and an engineer built a hitchhiking robot over a decade ago named hitchBOT. The project was meant to be an interesting experiment relating to human interaction with technology, robots, artificial intelligence, and ultimately, trust. hitchBOT could not move, but he could speak, asking humans to give him a ride and make basic small talk. The robot roadway companion had a global positioning system, social media access, and a camera that he used to document his journeys. (more…)

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Within the field of literature, Jews have often complained about negative Jewish stereotypes. There is a Wikipedia page [1] dedicated to the subject, and scholars have dedicated much time to researching this phenomenon. For example, in his 2005 article “How Racist Was Oliver Twist?” novelist Norman Lebrecht actually counted (or relayed someone else’s count of) the number of times Charles Dickens referred to his Jewish villain Fagin in the first thirty-eight chapters of Oliver Twist as “the Jew.” It was 257. (more…)

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We live an age where no one wants to be white if they can help it. That’s why you have honkies like Robert “Beto” O’Rourke pretending be Hispanic, Shaun King pretending to be black, and Elizabeth Warren pretending to be Native American. But it was not so long ago when the opposite was true, and it was non-whites who, if possible, tried to pass themselves off as whites. Imitation of Life is a movie about the latter. (more…)

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Jennifer Eberhardt
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
New York: Viking, 2019

If one were to design the perfect vessel for the transmission of anti-racist dogma framed wholly at the embarrassing level of superficiality liberals have come to regard as adequately stimulating, it would look exactly like Jennifer Eberhardt. (more…)

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My 4-part series on the recent Kevin MacDonald-Nathan Cofnas debate garnered quite a few comments at Counter-Currents and on social media. This was one of the most challenging and rewarding piece I have ever worked on at Counter-Currents, (more…)

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Vor Jahren erzählte mir ein Freund eine Parabel über eine Hominidenspezies, die es nicht erlebte, die Erde zu erben. Diese Hominiden betrachteten jedes einzelne Wesen als völlig einzigartig. Wenn ein Tiger aus der Dunkelheit sprang und einen von ihnen in sein Verderben zerrte, veranlasste sie das zu keinen Verallgemeinerungen über Tiger als Gruppe. Als daher ein neuer Tiger in den Schatten am Rande des Feuerscheins herumzuschleichen begann, wurde er nicht auf der Grundlage des Verhaltens des anderen Tigers beurteilt. (more…)

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Hace años, un amigo me dijo una parábola sobre una especie de homínido que no vivió para heredar la tierra. Estos homínidos comprendían cada entidad como enteramente única. Cuando un tigre saltaba desde la oscuridad y secuestraba uno de ellos a su muerte, esto no les generó ninguna generalización de los tigres como grupo. Entonces cuando un tigre nuevo aparecía alrededor merodeando en las sombras al borde de la luz del fogón, él no era juzgado en base al comportamiento de los otros tigres. (more…)

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En ven fortalte mig, for år tilbage, en lignelse om en art hominider der ikke overlevede til at arve Jorden. Disse hominder betragtede hvert evig eneste væsen og tilfælde som aldeles enestående. Når en tiger sprang ud af mørket, og slog klørene i en af dem, førte dette ikke til nogen generaliseringer angående tigre som gruppe. Når en ny tiger begyndte at luske rundt i skyggerne omkring lejrbålet, blev den således ikke vurderet på baggrund af den anden tigers adfærd. (more…)

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Years ago, a friend told me a parable about a species of hominid that did not live to inherit the earth. These hominids regarded each and every entity as entirely unique. (more…)

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Pred niekoľkými rokmi mi priateľ povedal podobenstvo o druhu hominidov, ktorý neprežili, hoci mohli vládnuť Zemi. Títo hominidi považovali každého tvora za úplne jedinečného. Keď vyskočil tiger z temnoty a jedného z nich odsúdil k tragickému osudu, nebolo to pre nich dôvodom, aby zovšeobecňovali tigrov ako skupinu. Takže keď začal druhý tiger obchádzať v tieňoch na pokraji ohňa, nesúdili ho na základe chovania prvého tigra. (more…)