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Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
I wish I had not resigned from @APA in 2021 so that I could resign now.
This petition lays out the capture of APA by the oppressor/victim mindset, which is bad for psychologists, their research, their patients, and the country. I signed.
change.org/p/call-to-protect…
Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
Why do some colleges and universities have mandatory #DEI statements? I’m glad you asked.
Mandatory DEI statements help liberals weed the pool of applicants to exclude conservatives and anyone else who believes in a meritocratic system. Once hired universities have a myriad of ways of punishing anyone who questions the status quo.
Universities have a “systemic bias” that ensures that defectors will pay a high cost for questioning the biases.
Administrators have ave the ability to make one’s life miserable by withholding raises, issuing denunciation statements, and labeling defectors as the weakest link.
Professors often steer students to preferred professors and stir unrest among students to maintain control.
I have seen it all.#HigherEducation #academia #DEI #politicalcorrectness #viewpointdiscrimination #Firstamendment
Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
That extremist populations can be violent in the west in response to felt religious imperatives has been proven many times, in incidents of terrorism, honour killings, grooming gangs, murder of Ahmadis, etc. In some countries this is a major issue (e.g. UK), in others not. 6/
Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
This is a classic Bubble scenario: assumptions of ever increasing willingness to pay higher prices becoming detached from the actual ability to pay the endlessly escalating price
When we look at New Condo offerings that fail to sell Pre-Sales or Subdivisions paused
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Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
We are a sociopathic society.
"In the lab, COVID is a Level 3 biohazard (yellow fever, West Nile virus, tuberculosis). In schools, it's no big deal. I don't think you can reconcile those two statements."
- Colin Furness (infection control epidemiologist)
cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
Always great to read sensible threads. Reality, not ideology.
Welcome To Crazy Town: No Gas Vehicles By 2035
First thing: I believe in Climate Change, I have for 15 years, if anyone wants to deny Climate Change I am just not listening
That said, it's absolutely CRITICAL we don't knowingly damage the Canadian economy
We just can't
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Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
Shocking yet unsurprising map by @rubenbmathisen shows the insanely large share of wealth held by the top one percent in each country across the Americas.
Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
Message to Demonstrator at Eaton Centre: Canada is not an oppressor. You are not a victim. Canadians are peaceful citizens who respect democratic values. Uttering threats is not a democratic value. It's criminal. Message to TO Police Chief: It's criminal. torontosun.com/news/local-ne…
Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
If you want the Conservatives to go away then create sensible guardrails and listen to concerned parents otherwise you are going to see a conservative backlash because the folks I am talking about used to vote Liberal and NDP but won't be doing that next time if they feel
Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.
My take:
Why has it taken so long to see this?
We're now seeing how identitarianism (making group-based identity the primary analytical and moral lens) has damaged academic culture. In a new paper, @profyancey shows how it also damages the mental health of those who embrace it.
At @HdxAcademy
heterodoxacademy.org/blog/th…
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Wilf Ratzburg retweeted
"I was shocked that (Sheng) would show something like this in something that's supposed to be a safe space," one student told the Daily."
Who told him a classroom was a "safe space?"
A classroom is where ideas should be challenged and critical thinking taught. Not a bubble.
Bingo! Too lazy to really study anything.
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