ObjectivityIncarnate

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  • Yeah, this level of pedantry does no one any good, and just makes one come off as snotty and condescending.

    The ‘dialogue’ in the OP is the same way. 99% of the people who’d say “I’m a capitalist” define it no more specifically as ‘I like capitalism’, which in turn is typically defined no more specifically than ‘supplying what the market wants = profit’ by the vast majority of people.

    Talking down to people does the opposite of fostering solidarity.



  • So my objective person: you are saying you believe the word of ICE

    Skepticism of one account does not amount to endorsement of another.

    Neither should be taken at face value, but who do you think is more likely to be telling the truth?

    I don’t think there’s sufficient justification to assume fully on either side, but the fact is that because it’s the popular position, people are happy to take the side against ICE regardless of the circumstances, which is why this post exists in the first place.

    All I did was point out said lack of justification on that side, and try to find more information about a situation the linked article obviously wasn’t giving the whole picture for.

    No emotional response from me (though plenty of people here project their emotional response onto me, since they can’t fathom someone not eagerly believing whatever benefits their narrative without scrutiny, and so the slightest bit of scrutiny/skepticism of an event they’ve attached their narrative to instantly becomes the assumption ‘you’re a foot soldier for the Bad/Other Guys!’).

    That’s how objectivity works, despite your sarcastic implication otherwise.



  • It says right there in the article that he “grew up in South Carolina”.

    Assuming it’s true that he did, that does not, at all, contradict/refute him being an illegal immigrant.

    Another source says his visa papers were taken away years ago and he’s been trying to get them back ever since – hence the “working towards legal citizenship”

    That’s not a “source”, that’s the quoted claim of his girlfriend:

    Celeste Hernandez, his significant other, said that…Arce has been in the process of getting his visa papers back after getting them taken away years ago.

    There has been no verification of this claim’s accuracy, and she is the furthest thing from an objective third party. Calling her a “source” is disingenuous as fuck, and I have a feeling you know that.

    Not to mention, “working towards legal citizenship” very strongly implies he was never a legal citizen before, or else why wouldn’t it say something like he was working toward ‘regaining’ citizenship, or mention that he ‘lost’ citizenship?

    It says right there in the article that he “grew up in South Carolina”.







  • I suspect that women aren’t dating conservative men

    Well, there are plenty of conservative women too, so that can’t tell the whole story, can it?

    Looks like conservative men and liberal women are in similar boats, statistically:

    In broad terms, there are only 0.6 single liberal young men for each single liberal young woman; likewise, only 0.5 single conservative young women exist for every conservative young man. Statistically, in other words, about half of these ideologically minded young singles face the prospect of failing to find a partner who shares their politics.

    This implies the liberal men are dating the conservative women, lol.


  • Jorge Hirsch, the creator of the h-index asserts that a “successful scientist” will have an h-index of 20 after 20 years; an “outstanding scientist” will have an index of 40 after 20 years; and a “truly unique individual” will have an index of 60 after 20 years or 90 after 30 years. Jordan Peterson has an h-index of 57.

    His academic work had been cited well over 10,000 times before he became a publicly-known figure in 2016.

    He obviously isn’t a quack in the field of psychology, by any objective measure.