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About Chris, this 3.5 years old post made me wonder what he's all about. https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/this-princeton-economics-profe...
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Liking free speech, disliking affirmative action, being critical of those he disagrees but also giving them a chance to respond.

edit: is what he seems to be about based on the linked article


There's a bunch of needlessly inflammatory bullshit in that article. "Innumerate woke Bolshevik" and making fun of someone because he thinks she looks like a Harry Potter character. This guy seems like nothing more than a high school bully. E-mailing someone asking them to respond is nothing more than a fig leaf.

Huh? The linked article is nothing more than "this guy is black, so therefore helping any underprivileged black people gain university admissions is bad"

It's outrageous racism. A conclusion about all minorities based on one person's math mistake, where the logic is entirely based on shared skin color.

If you replace the races and make it a conclusion about legacy admissions or something, it's obviously stupid and illogical, right?

"This white guy doesn't know Afghanistan from Kazakhstan. More proof legacy admissions is bad!"


https://xkcd.com/385/

It's just this but with race this time.


Much has changed since this was published in 2008



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