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The problems grandparent describes are real.

As a scientist, if you find "Black people good, white people bad" --> publication + promotion

You find "White people good, black people bad" --> you lose your job

Completely orthogonal to the morality of it, it creates something called publication bias (or the file drawer problem) in the social sciences. It's a huge issue.

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>"Black people good, white people bad" --> publication + promotion

>"White people good, black people bad" --> you lose your job

It is totally believable that the bias problem you're referring to exists, but your description is provocative, dramatized, oversimplified, and carries a smug tone, and I wish it wasn't any of those things.

You know, you're right.

I think when you live it every day it gets exhausting.

To back up the parents claim: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. - https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...

And of course, ignore Asians at all costs. Or if the study is about overrepresentation, invent a new, "Asian + white" category, and hide disaggregated numbers.

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