Something I should say more often

[wufwugy]

Sounds an awful lot like BLM to me.

That would be awesome.

In my experience, there's still quite a bit of statistics ignorance and racism.

[MadMojoMonkey]

How is it you manage to state the blindingly obvious in a way that seems confrontational, wuf?

People suck at understanding statistics. I've been saying for over 10 years that the single most important college course that should be a part of every single major is a probability and statistics course from a math department. We see statistics in almost every news broadcast, and basically no one understands what a confidence interval is, why it's vital to know it, and scandalous that it's not given. We are almost never told the breadth of the study which produced whatever statistic, how many participants, from what socioeconomic background, etc.

So that's a huge avenue we leave open for politicians and other community leaders to openly lie to us in ways that make us feel smart without actually learning anything.


Saying there's racism - or more broadly bigotry - is just blindingly obvious no matter where or when you look at human history.



All of which is just obvious.

But you attach some quote with BLM, and without making any direct connection, you're somehow linking the 2 things.


Your studies into how to persuade people have devolved into you learning how to manipulate (less intelligent) people (than you) with false connections and trite crap that sounds profound.
You used to be an intellectual. Now you're just adding your own from of propaganda.


I mean... who needs Kanye? Wuf for POTUS!

[wufwugy]

How is it you manage to state the blindingly obvious in a way that seems confrontational, wuf?

I have ideas. Why do you think?

persuade people

If I was attempting to persuade you guys, I would absolutely never post from this account again.

I'm here because I love and respect you guys and like having fun discussions (while learning more about you and myself too).

[MadMojoMonkey]

I have ideas. Why do you think?

The rest of my post is me explaining my point vis-a-vis your post I was responding to.

If I was attempting to persuade you guys, I would absolutely never post from this account again.

Do you think we're so blinded by your name that we don't take your words at their face value?
Do you think we're just "oh there goes wufwugy, wuffing it up again." and not responding to your stated ideas?

FWIW, I don't want to be that kind of person, so if you think I'm doing that, please feel invited call me out on it.

I'm here because I love and respect you guys and like having fun discussions (while learning more about you and myself too).

Sorry if I connected dots that don't directly connect...
like that one time when you posted a quote about BLM, then added a non-sequitur about broadly applicable human conditions, as if you are saying it's all proper and good to hold people in BLM to a higher / different standard than all of humanity.

But, then... what's your actual point?

What's your point when you post some comment and don't delete it, but tell people to ignore it?

How is that loving and respecting us?
'Cause that feels to me like some manipulation tactic, where you say something meant to incite a response, then pretend you didn't mean to say it when you obviously did mean to say it.
That comes across as the opposite of respectful, IMO. It comes across as a troll.

[wufwugy]

...face value?
.... stated ideas?

People don't take most things at face value because we're emotional beings with filters. Balancing a checkbook might be an example of when the filter is pure rational thought.

[wufwugy]

What's your point when you post some comment and don't delete it, but tell people to ignore it?

I posted the comment that I've experienced a lot of racism because I thought it might generate some interesting discussion on race.

After posting, I quickly remembered that I do not want my mind to fall into the trap of victimhood, so I wrote out the followup for my personal health mainly, and posted it.

I left them both up because they could generate interesting discussion on race and/or how to respond to racism.