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I think that might be new levels of shithead for him. E: it was not new for him http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26

Bonus content : https://xcancel.com/esrtweet/status/1852466515519341014#m ‘im not a racist, im an empericist’

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Racism is insane; it fixates on superficial characteristics like skin color rather than important ones like IQ and time preference.

I’m sorry, “time preference”? Is this piece of shit referring to Colored People’s Time as a scientific concept or am I missing something?

This is such a cursed tweet ughhhhh

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racism is insane

…ok…

introducing racism 2

Oh I see

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The plot of Seveneves, but worse.

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referring to Colored People’s Time

to the what now? What cursed horror beyond my comprehension am I going to learn today?

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I recommend looking it up. I believe it’s a term that has been reclaimed by Black people. Obama referenced it as CPT (in response to some other event) in his 2016 WHC dinner speech.

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“Black people are late sometimes” but in a racist way instead of a “Repent, Harlequin” kind of way.

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I think that is a reference to the ‘eat 1 cookie now or wait, and get 2 cookies’ childrens thing. Racists refer to it often. (This also means the black eat the 1 cookie kids can’t build empires bla bla bla).

(when I search for the term on youtube, it instantly gave me a video linking it to cultural degeneracy for example. Really annoying you can’t block channels properly. Also the mises institute has a video on it)

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Oh cool it’s even worse then!

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