Beliefs that you've grown out of

[Cuauhtemoc]

I would say the majority of people in academia are not exceptionally intelligent

If you were an extremely intelligent person with a masters in engineering, would you be an engineer and get paid to design great things or would you teach engineering?

Sure there are many intelligent academics but it is definitely not the norm. "Those who can't do, teach."

Most of my professors did both. You can usually work outside of academia as a professor in engineering.
They usually didn't get into academia to teach but to conduct basic research too. As a tenured professor you usually have access to laboratories, government funding and so on.
In the past some private companies like Bell Labs or IBM would conduct basic research too but nowadays it's mostly restricted to universities and government projects which are usually linked to universities. Like, many guys at NASA, CERN and the like are also professors.

I guess some fields(women studies, africana) are filled with affirmative action professors but engineering and science doesn't seem to be one of them.

 

[panamaican]

Where is an example of this "efficient" government??

It's a goal to work towards. As opposed to a goal of small for the sake of small.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Most of my professors did both. You can usually work outside of academia as a professor in engineering.
They usually didn't get into academia to teach but to conduct basic research too. As a tenured professor you usually have access to laboratories, government funding and so on.
In the past some private companies like Bell Labs or IBM would conduct basic research too but nowadays it's mostly restricted to universities and government projects which are usually linked to universities. Like, many guys at NASA, CERN and the like are also professors.

I guess some fields(women studies, africana) are filled with affirmative action professors but engineering and science doesn't seem to be one of them.

Pwent is just a simpleton repeating boiler-plate, right-wing talking points he heard somewhere. He wouldn't know a college from a collage.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

1- you don't think the Deep South and rural Midwest have black people?

2-you think there isn't racism in those cities?

Proportions and scale, how do they work??

This neo white nationalism is more strongly anti-immigrant than anti-black (though obviously it has a good amount of the latter). The Deep South has very few immigrants/Latinos/Muslims, compared to larger urban areas. The rural Midwest has very few of any people of color.

The racism in large urban areas is much less crude and aggressive.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

because you were taught so. In school they taught me that JFK was the messiah until he was assassinated.

The school propaganda machine is strong.

JFK was a messiah warrior of democracy that got assassinated because his noble intentions clashed with the bad guys'.

The US is a freedom-loving nation that gets involved in other countries' businesses out of necessity and in order to further worldwide freedom.

And so on and so forth. The indoctrination is thick.

 

[Squall Leonhart]

I thought atheism was true.

This for me too. I went from being a believer, to thinking atheists were 100% correct, to now agnosticism where I think there is something more, but not sure what. I'm on the positive side of agnostic.

 

[Pwent]

Proportions and scale, how do they work??

This neo white nationalism is more strongly anti-immigrant than anti-black (though obviously it has a good amount of the latter). The Deep South has very few immigrants/Latinos/Muslims, compared to larger urban areas. The rural Midwest has very few of any people of color.

The racism in large urban areas is much less crude and aggressive.

You're making the assumption that R=racist and D=not racist

I strongly disagree

The current Republican Party wants everyone to be treated equally

The democrats want to talk about racial identity 24/7 and their policies assume that minorities are less capable than whites do they should be judged differently (though they blame it on historical disenfranchisement, rather than genetic flaws. The result is the same)

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

I have a little insider information that shows the opposite to be true. In the deep South there aren't as many of us as in N.Y., I promise you N.Y. is filled with the far right, they just have to hide it.

You must get your insider information from the same sources Trump gets his. Inside your head

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

Proportions and scale, how do they work??

This neo white nationalism is more strongly anti-immigrant than anti-black (though obviously it has a good amount of the latter). The Deep South has very few immigrants/Latinos/Muslims, compared to larger urban areas. The rural Midwest has very few of any people of color.

The racism in large urban areas is much less crude and aggressive.

But the south, where most blacks live(some states are over 30% black) have mostly anti-black racism. They don't care that much about muslims.
Latinos usually live in the south too but more to the west in places like Texas.
One of the reasons the larger urban areas doesn't have as much racism against brown people is because a lot of them are already brown.Many places in California or NY are minority majority already.
Some of these places are not even diverse, except if you consider diversity to be non-white people.

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

I have a little insider information that shows the opposite to be true. In the deep South there aren't as many of us as in N.Y., I promise you N.Y. is filled with the far right, they just have to hide it.

Haha, yeah, they really don't get it. They think that anybody that voted Trump/Republican=far right.
In fact his core support is composed of people that would detest the label of racist or far right. They are conservative christians who believe the democrats are the real racists™, some don't like blacks cuz they helped the yankees in the civil war, but they don't care about eugenics, national socialism or white nationalism. In fact they probably think that's anti-american.
I'm not american but I'd say the place with the most real far right would be Pennsylvania.

Bonus video:

 

[Thames]

That racism, homophobia and misogynism were a relic of the past, at least in the developed world. Then I joined the WR.

Seriosuly though, I came to learn that I hadn't really grasped all the nuances there is to those concepts.

 

[rocketskates]

Dude when I was young like in my early-mid teens I was a major homophobic. It was just s product of my small town surroundings. Then one day one of my best friends since we were kids came out to me. I thought to myself how ignorant I could have been by ostracizing him and pretty much had a major epiphany regarding gays.

I'm still mostly conservative, but no issues with gay folks.

 

[brothir]

When I was a boy, I thought there were 9 planets. Now that I'm a man, I know there are actually 90 planets.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

But the south, where most blacks live(some states are over 30% black) have mostly anti-black racism. They don't care that much about muslims.
Latinos usually live in the south too but more to the west in places like Texas.
One of the reasons the larger urban areas doesn't have as much racism against brown people is because a lot of them are already brown.Many places in California or NY are minority majority already.
Some of these places are not even diverse, except if you consider diversity to be non-white people.

The south certainly cares a lot about Muslims and immigrants. I guess it's up for debate whether their anti-brown racism is stronger than their anti-black racism but it's unquestionably stronger than what it was just a couple of decades ago.

There was that study that showed that the strongest Trump support came from areas with little exposure to immigrants and not especially hard hit by the economic downturn.

And yeah, big urban areas are already majority minority but even the whites there aren't as rabidly racist as elsewhere. If nothing else, they're "diluted" by the presence of liberal and moderate whites. There are no liberal whites in the Deep South or rural Midwest.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

You're making the assumption that R=racist and D=not racist

I strongly disagree

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/8/11175510/republicans-elections-south-slavery

Study confirms it.

 

[THE BOSS]

Aliens

 

[spin]

Santa.
Easter bunny.
Justice.

Justice, that's a good one.

Cosigned.

 

[RubberGuard5]

Trump and the neo-white nationalist movement are huge in the Deep South, Appalachia and rural Midwest.

Meanwhile, places like New York, Chicago, LA, Houston are repelled by it.

Be scientific in your thinking. Don't try to prove that all swans are white by finding white swans. Look for black swans. Explain all the diverse places that ended in ethnic cleansing. Explain Yugoslavia.

 

[badascan]

Dairy is good for you
WW2 history/details are what we are officially told
Moon "landings"

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Be scientific in your thinking. Don't try to prove that all swans are white by finding white swans. Look for black swans. Explain all the diverse places that ended in ethnic cleansing. Explain Yugoslavia.

Well obviously there has to be diversity in order for there to be ethnic cleansing. If everyone's the same, there's nothing to cleanse.

But it's a pretty poor argument against diversity.