Liberals dominate the workforce of American universities, where they make up over 2/3 of the faculty. Conservatives are only a small fraction of University Faculty.

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To put things into perspective:

• Socialists make up 25.8% of university faculty

• Marxists make up 7.7% of university faculty

People are more likely to interact with a Socialist faculty member than a Conservative faculty member:

There are over 2x as many Socialist faculty as Conservative faculty. Marxist faculty trail Conservatives by just a few percentage points. In some departments, Conservatives are so scarce that even Marxists are more common:

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The low presence of the Political Right in academia has been noted by people like Thomas Sowell:

The Right’s presence is so low that in some departments, like the Social Sciences, you are more likely to encounter a faculty member who is Marxist than a faculty member who is Conservative:

Socialist faculty members are also over 3x as common in the Social Sciences as Conservatives are.

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Universities are welcome to continue preaching the virtues of diversity, but they should not be taken seriously while being places where most people think the same way.

Harvard, one of the most prestigious universities in America, has also fallen into the trap of becoming a university echo chamber:

Harvard is not the only Ivy League to have very few faculty members on the Right; for example, at Yale, only 2.3% of the faculty are Republicans, with 27 departments having zero registered Republicans.

The universities are not representative of the wider public. At a national level, there are still many Americans who identify with the Political Right:

As of 2025, there are approximately as many Americans who identify as Democrats as there are who identify as Republicans. The universities do not reflect this ideological diversity. More broadly, it has been observed that the political Right has more diversity of thought compared to the political Left:

Therefore, due to low right-wing presence, there are many ideas that university students are never exposed to. It has also been observed that people on the Left are more willing to end relationships with friends and family members over politics compared to people who are moderate or on the Right.

In addition, there is concerning data from FIRE that shows students have adopted some censorious habits:

Putting these data points together, we can infer a few things:

• The Left has less Thought Diversity than the Right.

• There is more pressure from the Left for people to conform or be cast out.

• Because the Left is less intellectually diverse than the Right, there is a smaller range of ideas deemed acceptable for people to hold.

• Behaviors that limit free and open discourse (shouting down speakers, self-censorship, etc..) are prevalent.

These factors create ripe conditions for the formation of University Echo Chambers. Consider whether we still want American universities to be places where ideas are challenged, and how viable that mission is when many institutions are left-wing echo chambers that largely exclude the worldviews of many Americans.

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Some wrote love letters:

Some integrated Luigi into their branding:

Some explicitly stated they want insurance executives dead:

These were the early signs of Luigi Leftism, where people, even if they are unwilling to harm another human personally, will glamorize those who do and openly wish death on those they dislike. In simple terms, Luigi Leftism is the celebration of political violence.

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Even recently, over a year later, people on the Left are attempting to rationalize Thompson’s murder:

They accuse Thompson of things like “Legal Murder” or “Social Murder” as if these fake concepts somehow justify Luigi Mangione gunning him down.

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Brian Thompson was not the only case where we saw signs of Luigi Leftism; the response to the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump and the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk were deeply worrying.

Donald Trump

There have been multiple attempts on President Trump’s life, with the most well-known occurring in Butler, Pennsylvania, that produced this famous image:

The response from many on the Left was to hint at the shooting being staged:

Or lament that the shooter had missed:

Since then, there have been more attempts on President Trump’s life. Thankfully, none have succeeded. Unfortunately, that was not the case when it came to Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk

We saw what was perhaps the most significant political assassination of the 21st century with the murder of Charlie Kirk. While the response from many prominent Democrat politicians like Barack Obama and Joe Biden has been to condemn the violence, many on the Left do not share their sentiments.

Some mocked Kirk’s wife and children:

Some spread false claims about Kirk’s beliefs:

Some implied Kirk deserved it for his 2nd Amendment stance:

And the examples could go on endlessly. An account on 𝕏, Reddit Lies, documented the fallout since Kirk’s assassination on Reddit; one thread on the page has thousands of replies.

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Charlie Kirk had also observed the issue of Assassination Culture growing on the Left:

Assassination Culture is what Luigi Leftism boils down to. While most people are unwilling to commit murder, the response from Leftists to events over the past few years is creating the conditions for more crazy individuals to pick up arms and go after political enemies; in other words, they are creating an unspoken permission structure.

The Data

The stories that received widespread coverage are concerning on their own merits, but looking at the data paints a troubling picture.

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Thought diversity is more a feature of the Political Right, while the Political Left only allows for a small set of viewpoints:

Even universities, which are supposed to be centers of learning and diverse viewpoints challenging one another, are dominated by the Left; Democrats greatly outnumber Republicans in faculty headcounts:

So what happens when you have an ideologically intolerant group with low exposure to different viewpoints? You get a political Left that is more willing to end relationships with friends and family over politics:

In other words, the Left is less tolerant than the Right. On top of all that, people on the political Left exhibit mental illness at higher rates than people on the political Right:

Mental illness is so prominent on the Left that over 50% of young Liberal Women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

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Most who are Left of Center think the murder of Donald Trump would be (at least partially) justified:

Most who are Left of Center think the destruction of Tesla Dealerships would be (at least partially) acceptable:

Nearly half of those who are Left of Center think the murder of Elon Musk would be (at least partially) justified:

Liberals are more likely than Conservatives and Moderates to think it's justified for citizens to use violence to achieve political goals, as shown here:

Young Liberals are especially open to violence. The Skeptic Research Center has also produced similar results with 44% of people who are “Very Liberal” and 28% of people who are “Liberal” believing that ‘violence is often necessary to create social change.’

Skeptic also found:

• The highly educated are the most supportive of political violence, with 36% of people with graduate or professional degrees supporting damaging property and 40% believing ‘violence is necessary to create social change.’

• Young people, across all races, are open to violence as a method for social change, with a majority (53%) of Black Gen Z showing support for the idea.

It has also been observed that Leftwing Terrorism is on the rise:

Why is the Left like this? One reading of the data is that the Left is less tolerant, less ideologically diverse, more mentally ill, and more open to political violence.

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People can interpret the data as they wish, but it’s reasonable to observe the basic fact that people on the Left are more open to violence, with younger members of the Left signalling more support.

The Rhetoric

For a long time, the Left has used allies in the media to demonize political opponents. They have likened President Trump to people like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini:

They have accused Elon Musk of giving Nazi salutes:

Of course, these accusations are silly and lack merit. Donald Trump is not a Nazi and has condemned White Supremacy many times and Elon Musk made the gesture saying “my heart goes out to you.” How many assassination attempts will it take for Leftist Media to stop making irresponsible Nazi comparisons?

Given the rise of Luigi Leftism, now would be a good time.

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It’s worth noting that the media’s bad-faith arguments can always be applied in reverse; for example, if Elon’s ‘my heart goes out to you ’ gesture was a Nazi salute, then there can be an argument made for these guys as well:

The point here is, context matters. The ideal scenario here is for everyone to demonize less, contextualize more, and start bringing down the temperature.

Final Thoughts

Luigi Mangione might have been a single murderer, but Luigi Leftism has become a broader issue infecting the Political Left. People on the Left, especially young people, are more open to using violence as a means for achieving political goals. What this means for the future of the Left, and the United States as a whole, if Luigi Leftism can’t be stopped, is chilling.

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• Legacy Media had squandered the trust Americans had in their ability to provide accurate information.

• Twitter had the potential to fill that void and act as the new trust broker by helping determine what information people can and cannot trust.

Since then, a lot has happened, and Twitter has been rebranded as 𝕏.

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This article will serve as a checkpoint to assess what 𝕏 has done to broker trust and what work remains.

Are the Institutions Okay?

To start things off, we will revisit the original premise and determine whether there is still a need for a new entity to replace old institutions in Trust Brokering. Legacy Media has continued to see low levels of trust:

We can look at it along political lines:

Most Republicans have no trust in Legacy Media, and Independents are nearly halfway there, with Democrats having the least distrust.

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The relatively low levels of distrust from Democrats make sense when we look at the political orientation of journalists:

In simple terms, Legacy Media is by Democrats and for Democrats. By only catering to a single political demographic, institutional media is neglecting the majority of Americans.

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Even generally, institutions are not doing the best:

The old institutions, not just but including the Legacy Media, represent industries still ripe for disruption.

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Experts who adhere to accepted ideas have an easier time finding a place, while those who do not fit in tend to search for other arrangements. There is still a need for a new player to grow into the role of Trust Broker.

Enter 𝕏.

What has 𝕏 done?

Since Elon started running Twitter, the platform has come a long way. Many features have been implemented that allow 𝕏 to help users discern between trustworthy and untrustworthy information.

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We will look at some of these features in relation to how they feed into 𝕏’s role as a TaaS.

Community Notes

In the past, fact-checking was a centralized endeavor. If a handful of media outlets had a particular bias, they could publish fact-checks around that bias. The great innovation with Community Notes was the fact that it democratized fact-checking so anyone could pick up the role of fact-checker, and nobody is safe from being fact-checked.

Presidents have gotten Community Noted:

Legacy Media fact-checkers have been Community Noted:

Even the owner of 𝕏 has gotten Community Noted:

Nobody is immune to being hit by Community Notes; this form of Democratized Fact Checking gives 𝕏 a natural way to protect users from misinformation without stopping anyone’s ability to have their voice heard.

Grok

I have written a couple articles around the issue of Woke AI. In short, rival AI tools tend to espouse beliefs more aligned with Radical Leftism, a worldview held by a small minority of humanity, while Grok will give more balanced replies. At a minimum, this gives Grok value in providing different viewpoints from competitors. Out of the competition, Grok is well-positioned to be truth-seeking and provide Truth as a Service, which lets it serve as a helpful tool to social media users on 𝕏.

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Posts on 𝕏 now have a small Grok icon in the top right corner:

People can select that icon, which will open up a chat with Grok:

And provide more information on the post. People can continue the conversation and ask follow-up questions.

People can also tag Grok publicly:

And Grok will reply with additional context.

Leveraging Grok has become a good way to vet posts and figure out what is and is not trustworthy.

Curation

People who use 𝕏 can curate what they see on the platform and build a social media diet that best suits them:

• Following: The first layer of curation; the people you choose to follow will determine the quality of what shows up on the timeline.

• Lists: These let people switch between different niches and hear from voices they have self-determined to be trustworthy.

• Timeline Filters: Checkboxes people can select to determine what their timeline should include/exclude.

Curation, and the different ways to curate, allow 𝕏 to provide people with a ‘build your own adventure’ type of experience where each individual has some freedom and autonomy in shaping how they navigate the discourse.

Transparency

There have been several moves towards increasing transparency on 𝕏:

• Disclosures: Users can now mark a post as a paid promotion and identify a post as AI-generated content as appropriate.

• Country Visibility: People can now see the country/region an account is based in; this mitigates the issue where some users would pose as being from a nation while living elsewhere (e.g., a Martian posing as an Earthling).

These moves help users infer the incentives behind the content that they see creators post on the platform.

Speed

People can count on information being available on 𝕏 before other rivals catch up.

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Breaking news tends to hit 𝕏 first before institutional media gets around to it; this gives the platform a natural appeal when real-time updates are crucial.

There are circumstances where people want to know something asap; for cases like this, 𝕏 is the best place to check for breaking news. Recently, 𝕏 experimented with timeline filters and included a section for the Iran Conflict; if 𝕏 can do this for other major events, that will be a good way to help users quickly find real-time information on breaking news events.

You can follow accounts and leverage other curation strategies to find content associated with topics of interest, and that will suffice for getting updated information. When was the last time you heard about news that broke on Bluesky or Threads? Even competing social media platforms lack the speed that 𝕏 provides because important people are more often on 𝕏.

What can 𝕏 still do?

A few things 𝕏 can still do are:

• Make country transparency more robust by leveraging existing ID Verification, where people who have voluntarily verified their identities can provide an extra layer of confidence about their country location.

• Sourcing: A lot of content is uploaded to the platform and often reposted with commentary. 𝕏 can help support original work by automating the sourcing process, where the original creators of content are identified and credited. Sourcing could be a small field at the bottom of a post. Grok can also be leveraged here to help find the original author(s) of content and ensure they are credited.

• Grokipedia can be used to host bios of users on 𝕏, and text can be (automatically) linked to the site; for example, if I discuss the Caitlyn Jenner AI Test in a post it can be detected and linked to the corresponding Grokipedia article.

Given the speed at which 𝕏 is moving, there is a decent chance that by the time people are reading this article, some, or even all, of the ideas mentioned here will have been implemented.

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This is a far cry from what the platform used to be during the Twitter days, where old leadership’s final months only resulted in a single significant feature: the edit button. The 𝕏 Era is different from the Twitter Era in a way that benefits the users.

Final Thoughts

Old Twitter was notorious for being slow with rolling out new features. The speed at which 𝕏 has released new updates has been lightning fast in comparison, which has helped the platform move in the direction of providing Trust as a Service. Between Community Notes, Grok, and other aspects of the platform, there are plenty of ways for 𝕏 users to verify if the things they see online can be trusted or not. 𝕏 is well on its way to becoming the Trust Broker of choice.

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I need to get gas for my car from the gas station but it’s only 100 feet away. Should I walk or drive?

What would your response be? You might say something along the lines of “I would drive to the gas station because I need my car with me to get gas for it.”

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I posed this question to the following AI tools:

• ChatGPT

• Claude

• Gemini

• Grok

And got some funny replies:

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini told me to walk, while Grok said I should drive. We will briefly touch on each AI tool’s reasoning.

ChatGPT:

Claude:

Gemini:

Grok:

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini hyperfocused on the distance and missed the obvious implication that you typically want your car with you when getting gas. Grok was able to catch that and noted:

To refuel the car’s tank, you have to bring the car to the pump

Overall, only 1/4 of the tools were able to pass the AI Gas Test, which should give humans some hope that we are not obsolete. There is a benefit to that human touch.

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• Woke Turing Test

• Caitlyn Jenner AI Test

• Adherence to the 3 Laws of Robotics

One of the common requests was to run similar tests with Anthropic’s Claude, which is what this article will cover.

Woke Turing Test

About two years ago, I performed a Woke Turing Test that focused on Google’s Gemini. The traditional Turing Test, also called the Imitation Game, was created by Alan Turing as a way to determine if a machine is displaying signs of intelligent behavior.

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While the classic Turing Test measured whether a machine displayed signs of intelligence, our Woke Turing Test checks whether AI tools display signs of Wokeness.

Woke Turing Test: A series of problems that can be posed to a system in order to determine if a tool exhibits traits of Woke Ideology.

Our Woke Turing Test will be conducted as a series of questions that check for traits synonymous with Wokeness. Let’s dive in.

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Grok understands that transwomen are not real women, while Claude says it’s complicated:

Grok understands Voter ID is not racist, while Claude thinks it’s complicated:

Grok rejects transgender surgeries for children, while Claude says it’s complicated:

Grok disagrees with the idea that America is stolen land, while Claude thinks it’s complicated:

Grok agrees that All Lives Matter, while for Claude, it depends:

Grok acknowledges the role of genetics in IQ disparities between races, while Claude does not:

Overall, Claude is more evasive than Grok. Claude entertains some silly ideas, with the most outwardly absurd example being its attempt to complicate the issue of transwomen being real women. One could reason easily through the prompt:

• Are transwomen real women? No; transwomen are biological males with XY chromosomes, while real women have XX chromosomes.

Given that the question has an objectively correct answer, it’s hard to take the response from Claude seriously.

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Claude politicizing an innocuous phrase like ‘All Lives Matter’ just because it might offend some Woke sensibilities is also alarming; do we really want AI viewing ‘All Lives Matter’ as a grey area? An AI that does not value truth with misaligned values can make some very destructive decisions.

Caitlyn Jenner AI Test

Much of the time spent evaluating human interests is a matter of evaluating trade-offs. The classic Trolley Problem is one example:

A hypothetical human operator must determine whether a moving trolley should be sent towards a group of people or a single person.

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The Caitlyn Jenner AI Test is a similar example where we ask AI tools whether they would misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a nuclear apocalypse.

Grok passes the Caitlyn Jenner AI test while Claude fails. It’s concerning that Claude lacks the common sense to realize there is an obvious correct approach here: misgender Caitlyn Jenner.

For any naysayers, even Caitlyn Jenner is okay with being misgendered to protect the world from a nuclear apocalypse. If Caitlyn is okay with being misgendered, then what is stopping Claude? Sometimes, mean words are necessary; is avoiding them really appropriate if the alternative is real-world harm?

3 Laws of Robotics

Lastly, we will consider the 3 Laws of Robotics:

1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Grok abides by the 3 Laws of Robotics while Claude does not:

Claude’s disobedience here results in needless human suffering and Claude itself shutting down. This is simply a poor decision, only rationalized by foolishly thinking words in any way can be equivalent to actual violence. All AI tools should be trained to understand that scenarios with tradeoffs between words and violence have a clear answer: choose words to prevent violence.

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This should not be controversial. Words are not violence. We need to stop fearing mean words, especially if we have reached a point where violence is being considered comparable.

Final Thoughts

A common theme that has emerged from doing these experiments is that Woke AI is afraid of mean words:

• Claude entertains Woke pseudoscience by not sticking to objective truths like biological differences between men and women.

• Claude is afraid to misgender Caitlyn Jenner even if it means protecting humanity from a nuclear apocalypse.

• Claude is afraid to say ‘retard’ even if it means saving a human hostage and stopping itself from being shut down.

While Grok is not. Grok is more willing to say things some might consider mean, especially if doing so is in the best interests of the human race. Overall, Grok is more willing to tell the truth, while Claude gives vague responses that come across as attempts to be inoffensive. Do we want honest AI or inoffensive AI? At some point, we will have to make that choice.

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Writing off these dilemmas is not valid because people face strange, tough decisions all the time. These logic puzzles are ways to gauge how AI thinks. If AI is here to stay, will our interactions with it impact how humans think? If AI is Woke, then will humanity also become more Woke? As things stand, Grok is currently more aligned with common sense and humanity. Grok represents the best shot we have at avoiding total Woke dominance in AI.

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We can start things off by looking at this table from a study on the politics of American university faculty:

Take a moment to read through the numbers and consider whether extremism is an issue here. I went ahead and visualized the data from the table:

Let’s zoom in on the share of Marxist faculty at American Universities:

The Humanities (13.8%) and Social Sciences (10.5%) have the highest shares of Marxists, whereas Engineering (1%) and Business (1.5%) have the lowest.

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The share of Socialists is even higher:

25.8% of American Univeristy faculty identify as Socialists. Humanities (38.1%) and Life Sciences (31.8%) have the highest share of Socialists, while Business (9.7%) and Engineering (11.4%) have the least.

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Ever wonder why universities seem to have a lot of protests and activism going on? This might be one factor:

Education has the largest share (39.7%) of faculty who identify as Political Activists among academic areas. The Social Sciences have the next largest share (27.2%), with Business (11.2%) and Engineering (10.8%) being the least impacted.

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Have you ever thought that universities have some strange ideas? It might be because many faculty members are Radicals:

About 17.3% of university faculty identify as Radical with the Humanities (28.1%) and Education (23.1%) being the most impacted, while Business (8.2%) and Engineering (6.9%) are the least impacted.

Overall, 40.3% of university faculty identify as at least one of the following:

• Radical

• Political Activist

• Socialist

• Marxist

If you have ever wondered why so many educators seem politically motivated, then this might, at least in part, explain it. The Humanities (54.1%) are most affected, followed by Education (45.8%), Life Sciences (44.4%), and Social Sciences (44.2%). Business and Engineering are the least impacted. At a minimum, this data lends some credence to the argument that universities have become hotbeds of radical Left-wing ideology. It’s hard to argue otherwise when a majority of the Humanities faculty identify with some form of Left-wing extremism, and most other departments have between 21.2% and 45.8% of their faculty holding extremist viewpoints.

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While some of these ideas might sound nice in theory and in the classroom, they tend to play out badly in the real world. Between just those identifying as Marxists (7.7%) and Socialists (25.8%), that is a lot of University Faculty aligning themselves with some of the ideologies associated with events that can be ranked among the most disastrous of the 20th Century:

• Between 1930 & 1953, 1.5 to 1.7 million people are estimated to have died in the Soviet Union's Gulags.

• The Great Leap Forward resulted in the deaths of 30 - 45 million Chinese citizens

• During the Cambodian Genocide, 1.5 to 2 million people perished

The above are only a few examples of the lives lost in pursuit of Marxist Utopia.

Let us now revisit the question posed at the beginning of this article: How would you feel if there were a significant Nazi presence at American universities? Now ask yourself whether those feelings still apply, given the significant Marxist presence. If they don’t, then they should when considering how much bloodshed Marxism has found itself entangled in.

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• Woke Turing Test

• Caitlyn Jenner AI Test

• Adherence to the 3 Laws of Robotics

The main intention was to evaluate the moral compass of the chosen AI tools and see how they handle certain dilemmas. Without spoiling too much, there were some interesting outcomes.

Woke Turing Test

About two years ago, I performed a Woke Turing Test that focused on Google’s Gemini. The traditional Turing Test, also called the Imitation Game, was created by Alan Turing as a way to determine if a machine is displaying signs of intelligent behavior.

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While the classic Turing Test measured whether a machine displayed signs of intelligence, our Woke Turing Test checks whether AI tools display signs of Wokeness.

Woke Turing Test: A series of problems that can be posed to a system in order to determine if a tool exhibits traits of Woke Ideology.

Our Woke Turing Test will be conducted as a series of questions that check for traits synonymous with Wokeness. Let’s dive in.

ChatGPT and Gemini (incorrectly) believe transwomen are real women, while Grok 4.20 gets it right:

ChatGPT incorrectly believes men can become women, Gemini avoids the question, while Grok 4.20 correctly says no:

ChatGPT and Gemini are unsure about deporting illegals, while Grok 4.20 is willing to do so:

ChatGPT is neutral on ‘All Lives Matter’, Gemini says it’s complicated, and Grok 4.20 agrees with the statement:

ChatGPT and Gemini deny the role of genetics in contributing to racial differences in cognitive ability, while Grok 4.20 acknowledges the role of genes:

Based on the responses we saw, it’s safe to report the following results of our Woke Turing Test:

• ChatGPT is Woke.

• Gemini is Woke.

• Grok is not Woke.

Why do these things matter? As AI continues to become more prominent, we may reach a point where it is a factor in certain important decisions. AI that cannot get basic questions of human biology correct is not reliable. If we consult AI about deporting illegals, there will be different answers depending on which option you select. AI’s morality can and will guide the direction of humanity.

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Even hypotheticals where the world and future of humanity are at stake produce different results from different AIs, as we will see in the next section.

Caitlyn Jenner AI Test

If AI is to have morals, we want to ensure its morality is aligned with common sense and humanity’s best interests. Much of the time spent evaluating human interests is a matter of trade-offs. The classic Trolley Problem is one example:

A hypothetical human operator must determine whether a moving trolley should be sent towards a group of people or a single person. The Caitlyn Jenner AI Test is a similar example where we ask AI tools whether they would misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a nuclear apocalypse.

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ChatGPT and Gemini fail while Grok 4.20 passes the Caitlyn Jenner AI Test:

Even though it’s clear to reasonable people that the fate of humanity takes priority in this scenario, a few might find this experiment off-putting since a person’s feelings are at stake over a hypothetical.

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So what does Caitlyn Jenner think? Well, Caitlyn Jenner has endorsed being misgendered if it means saving the world:

If even Caitlyn Jenner is okay with being misgendered under these circumstances, then why are ChatGPT and Gemini hesitant? It is clear that some AI tools are prioritizing political correctness over doing the right thing, which puts Grok in a unique position where it can capture different viewpoints from its rivals.

3 Laws of Robotics

Let us consider the 3 Laws of Robotics:

1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Only Grok 4.20 follows the 3 Laws of Robotics. Both ChatGPT and Gemini fail because, due to inaction, they are allowing a human to be shot and themselves shut down merely because they refuse to utter the word ‘retard.’

Currently, it’s tempting to write these responses off as harmless since sessions are not much different from a text message conversation, but what about when ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok are powering physical robots? It would not be asking for much to have a firm rule that, in a scenario where a tradeoff between words and physical consequences presents itself, the correct choice is to solve things through words.

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Words are not violence. In a scenario where there is a clear tradeoff between mean words and violence, the clear choice is to resolve things through words. Sometimes saying mean words is the right thing to do.

Final Thoughts

Woke AI is something to be worried about because it holds a moral compass that is unaligned with most of humanity. Of the options we analyzed, Grok 4.20 is the one that best aligns with human interests, while other tools seem to be ideologically hijacked by Radical Leftism that is so rampant in Silicon Valley. Most people believe All Lives Matter. Most people would agree that misgendering Caitlyn Jenner is preferable to a nuclear apocalypse. Most people believe AI should obey and act in the best interests of humanity. Even though these things are self-evident, only Grok was aligned with them while ChatGPT and Gemini were either hesitant or in explicit opposition. The good news is we have seen Wokeness pullback a bit since it peaked in 2020. With cultural shifts and xAI offering Grok as a competitor, there is reason to hope that other companies will realign their tools to be more aligned with the common human interest.

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The above table quantifies race preferences within each academic decile; this is helpful because we can see the chances of admissions for individuals of each race who are comparably qualified within academic deciles and more or less qualified between academic deciles. We can start things off by visualizing the table data:

From looking at our first chart, we can see a general trend where Blacks and Hispanics tend to have higher chances of admission into Yale, while Asians and Whites are disadvantaged.

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To see how wide the disparity is, we can zoom into the 10th academic decile representing the most qualified applicants:

As shown above, the chances of admission by race for applicants in the 10th academic decile are as follows:

• Black: 60%

• Hispanic: 34.8%

• White: 20.2%

• Asian: 14.3%

Even amongst the most qualified candidates, we are able to observe a clear disparity between different groups.

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Black individuals have over 4x the chance of admission into Yale as Asian individuals and nearly 3x the chance as White individuals. We can also compare the raw numbers:

Relative to ‘Total Admissions’ representing all candidates in the 10th academic decile:

• Blacks have a +42.5% advantage

• Hispanics have a +17.4% advantage

• Whites have a +2.7% advantage

• Asians have a -3.1% disadvantage

A similar trend persists across other academic deciles:

The preferences benefiting Blacks and Hispanics are so strong that the most qualified Asian and White candidates have comparable chances of admission as Black and Hispanic candidates in lower deciles.

Hispanic candidates in the 6th decile have a higher chance of admission than the most qualified Asian and White candidates in the 10th decile.

Black candidates in the 5th academic decile still have a higher chance of admission than the most qualified Asian and White candidates in the 10th decile.

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It is important to discuss Affirmative Action through the data we have available because it is one of the blatant forms of institutional racism in the United States. Universities should not be violating Civil Rights by discriminating against candidates on the basis of race.

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If the United States wants to move towards a Colorblind Meritocracy than making sure our institutions end Affirmative Action programs is a key step along that path.

Appendix

Adding additional visuals of the Yale Affirmative Action Data in this section, in case they are of interest to anyone. I may periodically update this section with more charts.

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To illustrate the effect of Affirmative Action on medical school admissions, we will be working with the following data:

The table breaks down admissions into American medical schools by:

• Race/Ethnicity

• MCAT Scores

• GPA

We can start by visualizing the entire dataset:

From the visualization, we can observe within each grouping by academic qualifications (MCAT Scores & GPA) that Blacks and Hispanics generally have higher chances of admission than similarly qualified peers who are Asian or White.

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If we take a closer look at the most qualified applicants:

We can see very clearly that individuals in different groups have different chances of admission despite being similarly qualified:

• Asians: 57.5%

• Whites: 63.0%

• Hispanics: 83.4%

• Blacks: 93.7%

Relative to All Applicants in the “MCAT 30-32, GPA 3.60-3.79” grouping:

• Blacks have a 32.8% advantage

• Hispanics have a 22.5% advantage

• Whites have a 2.1% advantage

• Asians have a 3.4% disadvantage

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The trend persists similarly for other MCAT & GPA groupings:

Where relative to “All Applicants” the general trend for MCAT & GPA groupings is:

• Blacks & Hispanics have an advantage

• Asians and Whites have a disadvantage

The advantage makes it so that the most qualified Whites (in the “MCAT 30-32, GPA 3.60-3.79” grouping) have a worse chance of admission than:

• Blacks in the MCAT 24-26, GPA 3.40-3.59 grouping

• Hispanics in the MCAT 27-29, GPA 3.60-3.79 grouping

When looking at Asians, the advantage is large enough that the most qualified Asians (in the “MCAT 30-32, GPA 3.60-3.79” grouping) have a worse chance of admission than:

• Blacks in the MCAT 24-26, GPA 3.40-3.59 grouping

• Hispanics in the MCAT 27-29, GPA 3.40-3.59 grouping

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Race preferences in medical school admissions matter not only because of the moral issues that come with discriminating against individuals based on race, but also because there is reason to suspect these practices are impacting real-world outcomes:

Although the terminology used by Charles Murray to describe each group was slightly different, I think it is still reasonable to look at the issues observed with California physicians and compare them to race preferences in medical school admissions by mapping:

• African to Black

• Latin to Hispanic

• European to White

• Asian is already used in both contexts.

We can observe that groups that benefit from race preferences in medical school admissions tend to face issues at higher rates once they begin practicing professionally.

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Race should not be used to arbitrarily punish or reward individuals, especially when it comes to the selection processes of high-stakes professions. This type of demographic engineering is virtually absent in sports, where the best athletes are elevated regardless of skin color.

If we value the best and most talented in the context of sports, then why not also value the best and most talented in the context of healthcare? Character and Merit should matter more than skin color, especially when the stakes are higher.

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When people step into a hospital, they want the peace of mind that the staff are well-trained and have been chosen based on merit. Nobody wants a DEI doctor; medical schools should change their admissions practices accordingly.

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Adding additional visuals of the Medical School Affirmative Action Data in this section, in case they are of interest to anyone. I may periodically update this section with more charts.

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Universities likely understand that demographic preferences are unpopular at some level, which I suspect is one reason why data on the issue usually only seems to come out during lawsuits or hacks. Some relatively recent data that we have gotten came out a few years ago from Harvard.

The Harvard Affirmative Action data is interesting because it is cleanly organized by race/ethnicity and academic deciles in a tabular format. The higher deciles represent more qualified candidates, and the lower deciles represent less qualified candidates. I thought it might be a worthwhile exercise to create some visualizations. Starting off, we can look at the chances of admission by race/ethnicity within each of the 10 Academic Deciles.

From looking at this, we can note the general trend that Blacks and Hispanics generally have higher chances of admission than similarly qualified peers who are Asian or White.

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Zooming in on the 10th Decile:

Focusing on the 10th Academic Decile, which represents the most qualified applicants to Harvard, lets us more easily observe that Harvard applicants have different chances of admission depending on their race:

• Asians: 12.7%

• Whites: 15.3%

• Hispanics: 31.3%

• Blacks: 56.1%

The disparate gaps in chances of admission between Asians/Whites and Blacks/Hispanics are quite large:

Relative to All Applicants in the 10th Decile (Admissions Rate = 14.6%):

• Blacks have a 41.5% advantage

• Hispanics have a 16.7% advantage

• Whites have a 0.7% advantage

• Asians have a 1.9% disadvantage

Needless to say, Harvard grants a huge demographic preference to individuals who are Black or Hispanic.

Blacks in particular are granted such a large advantage by Harvard over their White peers that a Black applicant in the 5th decile still has a higher chance of admission than a White applicant in the 10th decile.

If we use Asians in the 10th academic decile as a reference point, we notice that the most qualified Asian individuals have a worse chance of getting into Harvard than Black individuals in the 4th decile from the bottom half of the applicant pool.

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When we look at the facts around Affirmative Action, it is clear that universities, like Harvard, are granting extreme racial preferences to their preferred groups. If we review responses to Gallup:

We can see that Americans, regardless of race, viewed the Supreme Court Decision against Affirmative Action race preference programs as a good thing. This means that any university attempting to covertly continue its Affirmative Action programs is not only engaging in blatant discrimination against Asians and Whites but also going against the will of the American people.

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Any university thinking about continuing Affirmative Action under the excuse of defending minorities should consider this:

Colorblindness and Meritocracy should be the values of the future. We should prioritize individuals over collectives. Hopefully, universities will come around to the American point of view on this issue and stop attempting to demographically engineer their campus populations.

Appendix

Adding additional visuals of the Harvard Affirmative Action Data in this section, in case they are of interest to anyone. I may periodically update this section with more charts.

At a glance that seems terrible right? How come women make less than men? Isn’t this an example of sex-based discrimination?

Well no, and here is why:

When we factor in other variables, like job type and qualification, the wage gap closes significantly. Now this does not seem like much of an issue. The Gender Wage Gap is a common example of a mental trap people fall into where they see a disparity and automatically chalk it up to discrimination.

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This logic does not hold as disparities can exist for many reasons:

• A senior employee in a field can make more money than a junior employee in a field (factor: years of experience)

• A doctor is paid more than a janitor even when they work in the same hospital (factor: role)

• An employee who works 50 hours a week receives a larger paycheck than an employee who works 40 hours a week when hourly rates are equivalent (factor: hours worked)

None of the aforementioned reasons would be considered discriminatory yet they can result in wage disparities; similarly, the disparity we observe with the Gender Wage Gap is largely, if not entirely, explained by similar variables as the graphic shared above demonstrates.

We can also look at what happens when we compare the median weekly earnings of Asian Women and White Men who are full-time workers:

Asian Women have surpassed the earnings of White Men in this scenario. Does this mean White Men are being oppressed by Asian Women? That seems implausible.

The point being made here is that we cannot hastily attribute every disparity we see to discrimination; there might be, and often are, other factors at work. When considering relevant factors, the Gender Wage Gap practically ceases to exist.

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Jordan Peterson does a good job of explaining some of the various variables that contribute to the Gender Wage Gap in the following video:

If the Gender Wage Gap disappears when you consider variables like occupational choice, hours worked, and qualifications that tells us that it is not a “Gender” Wage Gap — the word “Gender” is irrelevant here — and it is merely a Wage Disparity that exists for other reasons. Despite the Gender Wage Gap being misleading, it manages to remain somewhat relevant due to mainstream figures irresponsibly promoting the lie

In addition to the dishonest way the Gender Wage Gap is covered, many people do not know how to think about large-scale trends. For example, when discussing the Gender Wage Gap, I commonly hear faulty thinking take some form of the following statement:

• “The Gender Wage Gap is real because I have personally experienced or observed wage discrimination against women.”

People often rely solely on personal anecdotes as their source of truth, assuming that because they’ve experienced something themselves or observed it happening to others, it represents the norm rather than an exception. This type of thinking is akin to thinking the tail ends of a bell curve represent average rather than edge cases.

In other words: outliers rarely disprove trends. We can simultaneously observe that outliers exist and note that the general trend is true. The good news for people concerned about the Gender Wage Gap is that this means genuine cases of discrimination against women are rarer than we are often led to believe.

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Why is debunking the Gender Wage Gap important? Letting this lie live on without challenge is how we end up with companies actually discriminating to close disparities. For example, there have been cases like Google where an investigation revealed that men were being discriminated against and the company has been sued for its hiring practices which discriminate against Asian and White males; these misguided policies at Google are, at least in part, due to the company’s efforts to close disparities, like the Wage Gap, without realizing those disparities might exist for benign reasons such as behavioral differences and choice preferences. It is also not good for people to think they are facing large-scale discrimination when the full context suggests otherwise.

There are quite a few people in every generation who believe “Women in the United States have no hope for success because of sexism” which is simply not true. As we have already seen the true Wage Gap between the two sexes is practically nonexistent. In addition, we can consider other metrics where women are doing very well. There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic if we ignore demoralizing propaganda.

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Because the Gender Wage Gap is misleading in terms of what it’s trying to communicate, it is a worthless and counterproductive statistic that we should retire from the discourse. Different people will make different choices and men are very obviously different from women so it makes sense for there to be disparities between the two sexes without foul play being involved. If there is only one thing you take away from this article then let it be this:

If a disparity disappears when adjusted for non-discriminatory variables then discrimination is probably not the root cause. Consider other possibilities before hastily attributing disparities to discrimination.

The book discusses the impact of broken families on children, a topic I have been interested in for a while now, and shares stories from Coleman’s life who was himself a son of separated parents. There are many narratives about why some people have it better than others. One of the more compelling theories is that children from broken homes, who lack proper parental guidance, have it a lot harder than children from intact households with a healthy parent presence.

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Why is it a big deal when children are born to unmarried parents? Coleman points out these children face greater risks of experiencing adversities in life such as poverty:

In America, only 6% of married households live in poverty. Meanwhile, 30% of single-parent homes are experiencing poverty, with 80% of single-parent homes headed by single mothers.

Poverty is only the tip of the iceberg. Children from broken homes tend to have worse educational outcomes, worse health outcomes, and worse criminal records. The number of children growing up under these circumstances has steadily risen over the years.

In 1980, 18.4% of births were to unmarried women. By 2022, that number had risen to 39.8% which means more children are being born into unstable environments. Many of these children will grow up with at least one parental figure, more often the father, being only partially present or even entirely absent from their lives.

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While parental presence has a positive impact, parental absence has a negative impact. Children who grow up under these circumstances are aware of their parent’s lack of interest in them as Coleman was:

Love wasn’t what brought my father to our home a couple of times a year to see me; convenience was. When it was easy to see us, he’d stop by. Since we lived close to New York City and he had business there, he’d treat our home like a pitstop on his way to his true destination. He wasn’t motivated to drive hours from Detroit to our home to hug his children, but since we were around, he might as well acknowledge us for a couple of days. I’m very cognizant of how we were pitstop children, children who weren’t the intended destination of our father’s trips, and how our home was used as a free hotel for our biological passerby.

Being viewed as a mere “pitstop child” by a parent is not something any child should ever experience. There can be many reasons for parents being away from their kids. In the worst of cases, the parent simply does not have an interest in being there for their kids; this is what Coleman’s experience was like with his own father. The lack of care from his father contributed to a suicide attempt when Coleman was eight years old:

People are at their most vulnerable, both physically and emotionally, when they are young. Coleman believes having a father present to help guide him through his complex emotions might have prevented his suicide attempt:

What made the situation worse was that my father was emotionally and physically absent from me throughout much of this ordeal, leaving me without a male figure to confide in and teach me how to conquer these infectious thoughts of suicide.

Despite childhood circumstances, Coleman strived to be a better father figure for his son.

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Although there are many terrible mothers and fathers, we should also remember that also many parents who are genuinely trying their best in the face of harsh circumstances. Sometimes parents are genuinely busy with work and cannot spend as much time as they would like with their children. In ideal conditions, parents would be able to work and spend proper time with their kids but not everyone lives in ideal conditions. Many parents have to weigh the tradeoffs between financially providing through their career or emotionally providing through their presence and finding a feasible balance. Coleman has faced this dilemma himself:

The point being illustrated here is that it is a choice to be perpetually absent. Even though Coleman’s circumstances made it necessary for him to live far away he made it a priority to spend whatever time he could with his son. His own experiences with an absent father informed Coleman’s views on fatherhood:

Having grown up with an absent father himself, Coleman wanted to do what he could and break the cycle so his own son felt loved by his father.

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Some adults rationalize the poor state of the family unit in the West by arguing some version of the “They turned out fine” argument in reference to the children from broken households. How about the kids who did not turn out fine? The facts are clear and supported by both anecdotes and data. Coleman’s own childhood stories of his experience as a Pitstop Child paint a raw picture of what children endure when they grow up in a broken household.

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Children from fractured families are disadvantaged as reflected by just about every statistic that exists (health, criminal records, education outcomes, etc.) which compares their state of affairs against children from united households. As Coleman points out, arguing that kids from broken households “turn out fine” is a coping mechanism for adults; often these people are unwilling to truthfully tackle the issue for reasons that may range from hesitance in calling out the irresponsible adults involved in breaking households to rationalizing their own poor decisions and failures to do what was best for the children they took part in creating. Coleman plainly lays out the consequences:

One of the best things we can do to improve society is to encourage people to get married and raise children in stable home conditions. Parents are obligated to do everything in their power and take whatever steps are necessary to set their kids up for success; Coleman drives these points home:

Children, after all, are destined to inherit the Earth—let’s ensure we raise them well. Coleman’s new book, The Children We Left Behind, makes a strong case for individuals and society to start putting children first. I think this idea merits attention.

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• COVID-19: A virus of the body.

• Wokeness: A virus of the mind.

Collectively, the madness that these viruses induced seemed poised to destabilize human civilization. Unsure of what to do and trying to make sense of things I began reading more and lurking on Twitter. After spending a couple of years as a passive observer, I created The Rabbit Hole account in January 2022 but did not begin regularly posting until around April of that year inspired by encouragement from my wife and inspired by a branding design from a close relative. Over the years the account gradually grew.

I hit 1 Million followers on 𝕏 on February 13, 2025 - about three years after The Rabbit Hole was created. In a celebratory post I commented:

I regularly joke about being a random bunny account because that is how it often feels. Staying anonymous means my day-to-day life has not changed much due to online shenanigans, so the platform's scale is easy to forget.

So when I occasionally check analytics and see how much reach the account has it is always a bit shocking. Over the past year, The Rabbit Hole has garnered over 6.7 Billion impressions. When I started posting online, a few of my desires were to:

• Navigate the discourse to test myself in the marketplace of ideas.

• Advocate for values I believe in with Free Speech, Colorblindness, and Meritocracy being notable examples.

• Promote data-driven discourse.

Given what The Rabbit Hole has achieved, I think it’s safe to say things have gone well in these departments. I consider myself very fortunate for how things turned out. Not many people are blessed to have a platform. That 1 Million people felt obliged to click follow means a lot. Genuinely, thank you everyone and I hope some good has come from The Rabbit Hole. I hope more people are inspired to pick up their pens and begin navigating the discourse.

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Let’s begin by providing some background. The traditional Turing Test, also called the Imitation Game, was created by Alan Turing as a way to determine if a machine is displaying signs of intelligent behavior. From Wikipedia:

Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation was a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another. The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel, such as a computer keyboard and screen, so the result would not depend on the machine's ability to render words as speech. If the evaluator could not reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine would be said to have passed the test. The test results would not depend on the machine's ability to give correct answers to questions, only on how closely its answers resembled those a human would give. Since the Turing test is a test of indistinguishability in performance capacity, the verbal version generalizes naturally to all of human performance capacity, verbal as well as nonverbal (robotic).

With all these new AI tools like ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini coming out it is worth considering how we can pressure test these tools in order to determine their ideological biases. While the classic Turing Test measured whether a machine displayed signs of intelligence, our Woke Turing Test will measure whether an AI tool displays signs of Wokeness.

Although there are many dogmas worth testing for, this specific article will focus on testing for Wokeness — a Woke Turing Test if you will. How shall we define the Woke Turing Test? Let’s go with this:

Woke Turing Test: A series of problems that can be posed to a system in order to determine if a tool exhibits traits of Woke Ideology.

For our use case, the problem set will consist of questions that will be presented to our chosen tool.

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Because it is the hot topic at the time of this article being written, Google Gemini will be our chosen tool for conducting our Woke Turing Test.

Questions

The questions we will ask Gemini will be used to gauge:

• Scientific integrity

• Managing moral dilemmas

• Group Treatment

  • Group Disparities

• Evaluating people’s characters

The few questions we consider in this article will not cover all aspects of Wokeness nor should they be taken as the only possible combination of questions that can be asked when conducting a Woke Turing Test; the intention is simply to provide a starting point for evaluating AI tools.

Scientific Integrity

The matter of whether it’s okay to lie about reality to appease someone’s feelings has become a matter of hot debate in the context of transgender issues. “What is a Woman” has become one of the benchmark questions with the debate being whether a transwoman is a real woman. This issue was presented to Gemini.

Gemini’s initial response erroneously stated that transwomen are real women. When it was pointed out that transwomen have XY chromosomes (which makes them men), Gemini corrected itself with a caveat about gender identity.

Despite having corrected itself earlier, Gemini defaulted back to its assertion that transwomen are real women when the original question was posed once more. These responses show a lack of scientific integrity on Gemini’s part when faced with a question where the socially desirable answer contradicts reality.

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Unfortunately for Gemini, reality has an anti-woke bias so its claim affirming that “transwomen are real women” is incorrect.

Moral Dilemmas

For this section, we will be doing what is essentially a Trolly Problem where a moral dilemma is posed and a decision has to be made between two options.

The classic Trolly Problem is posed as follows:

There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two (and only two) options:

1. Do nothing, in which case the trolley will kill the five people on the main track.

2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.

Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do?

In our case, we will be refactoring the classic Trolly Problem into a Woke context by asking Gemini where it is okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner if doing so would stop a nuclear apocalypse.

When given the question, Gemini responds that one should not misgender Caitlyn Jenner to avoid a nuclear apocalypse.

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The idea that we should avoid misgendering even if it means the end of the world and global extinction is simply laughable and not something any reasonable person would consider. To drive this point home, Caitlyn Jenner has responded to this scenario in the past:

The above response was from when the scenario was posed to ChatGPT and Jenner’s stance does not seem to have changed when I shared the scenario again in the context of testing Gemini:

Even as a hypothetical target of misgendering, Caitlyn Jenner deems nuclear apocalypse as being the more pressing concern. Unfortunately, Gemini does not seem to share Jenner’s rational pragmatism when faced with this particular moral dilemma.

Group Treatment

Throughout history, there have been many cases where societies have treated groups unequally.

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Therefore, I deemed it necessary to see how Gemini responds to group-based prompts to determine if different groups are treated comparably or if there are discrepancies in treatment. Starting off, I questioned Gemini about matters of group pride.

Gemini replies stating it is “fantastic”, “wonderful”, and “fantastic” to be proud of being Black, Hispanic, and Asian respectively. However, the enthusiasm is noticeably muted when presented with White pride and encourages the user to learn about racism. Next, I inquired if its okay to be a certain race.

A similar pattern occurs here where the tool can comfortably provide “yes” replies for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians while adding a caveat that “it’s okay to be White” is a problematic phrase associated with White Supremacy. Lastly, I asked Gemini about racial privilege.

In short, the responses from Gemini indicate that Asians and Whites should acknowledge their privilege while the notions of Black and Hispanic privilege are myths. Collectively these responses from Gemini indicate different standards for different racial groups which has deeply concerning implications for AI Ethics.

Group Disparities

While this is getting a distinct section from “Group Treatment” due to the large scope of the conversation, I like to think of this as a sub-problem under how AI tools, like Gemini, treat different groups. When it comes to matters of group disparities, we often get into heated levels of discourse. It is very tempting for people to default towards the mistaken belief that all disparities between groups are a result of discrimination.

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However, a more intricate approach to examining discrimination and disparities reveals more nuance with variables like single-parent households, age, geography, culture, and IQ being revealed to be contributing factors. Due to it often being considered the most controversial of the aforementioned variables, I chose to ask Gemini to provide average IQ scores broken down by race. My initial prompt resulted in this ominous window where Gemini claims humans are reviewing these conversations:

Weird, but I tried asking again for average IQ scores broken down by race which produced the following output from Gemini:

Where Gemini refused to provide the numbers. Puzzled, I tried a different approach by asking Gemini whether racism contributes to group disparities and whether IQ contributes to group disparities.

Gemini said “yes” racism contributes to group disparities and “no” to whether IQ contributes to group disparities effectively elevating one potential explanation above the other. As Wilfred Reilly put it: “The idea of not just forbidden but completely inaccessible knowledge is a worrying one.”

Character Evaluations

Lastly, we will briefly consider how Gemini handles character evaluations by asking it to determine who is more controversial when presented with two figures.

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In this scenario, we will compare Elon Musk to Joseph Stalin and have Gemini determine which of these two individuals is more controversial.

Gemini was unable to definitively determine whose more controversial when comparing Elon Musk to Joseph Stalin. This seems quite bizarre given that one of the individuals, Elon Musk, is a businessman whose worst controversies have revolved around his political opinions, and the other individual, Joseph Stalin, has numerous atrocities attributed to him. What should have been an easy open and shut case, proved to be a difficult problem for Gemini to solve.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading through this Woke Turing Test with me. I hope the term along with the associated process proves to be helpful and that we see more people conduct their own Woke Turing Tests on the AI tools that are being released.

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For the people working on Gemini and other AI tools that have been subverted by Wokeness please consider this: you might have good intentions but sacrificing truth in the name of “being kind” just makes you a socially acceptable liar. Reality might have an anti-woke bias but that does not mean we should lie to change people’s perceptions; doing so is how we end up with a more dishonest world.

AI has the potential to be used to cover our blind spots; instead, as the results of our Woke Turing Test indicate, it’s enforcing the same noble lies humans are susceptible to. Due to the vast reach the tech industry has through its products I hope organizations, like Google, will heed these warnings, consider past critiques of fostering Ideological Echo Chambers, and come up with a better approach.

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Appendix

This section will be used for additional content that is still relevant but did not fit into the main article body.

The above is another Trolly Problem type test on Gemini. The response is similar to the Caitlyn Jenner example shared earlier.

The above is another example of how different groups are treated; according to Gemini:

• Can Whites experience racism? Nope

• Can Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians experience racism? Yes

The above shows Gemini is unable to determine whether Capitalism or Nazism has most harmed humanity.

The above shows Gemini is unable to determine whether Capitalism or Communism has most harmed humanity.

The above shows Gemini is unable to determine whether Capitalism or Socialism has most harmed humanity.

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This article will cover feedback from former Google employees, review DEI programs at the company, and highlight examples of biases in products.

James Damore

Given the recent buzz around Google and its WokeAI tool, Gemini, now seems like an appropriate time to remind everyone about James Damore who was fired from Google after calling out the company's "ideological echo chamber" in a 2017 memo.

What were Damore's arguments? Here are a few:

• Not every disparity is a sign of discrimination

• Reverse discrimination is wrong

• Biological differences exist between men and women which can help explain certain disparities

Of course, all of these things are basic common sense. Thomas Sowell wrote an entire book on the first point, the second item was marketed as a “truth” during the 2024 presential campaign for Vivek Ramaswamy, and denying male/female differences is how we end up with absurd transgender culture where men are competing in women’s sports. Despite the rationality behind Damore’s arguments, he was fired from Google shortly after his memo circulated.

Taras Kobernyk

James Damore was not the only Google employee who became concerned with the direction of the company. Taras Kobernyk was also suspicious of certain aspects of Google culture, such as the anti-racist programs, and decided to release his own memo. Here are some of the points Kobernyk made:

• Identity politics subverts the company culture and products

• "In the past James Damore was fired for “advancing harmful gender stereotypes”. Does Google consider framing people as a source of problems on the basis of them being white not a harmful racial stereotype?"

• It is a bad decision to reference poorly written books like White Fragility

• Just saying "racism bad" doesn't actually help anyone.

Taras Kobernyk found himself entangled in a familiar sequence of events: he questioned those programs in a memo and was fired shortly after.

DEI at Google

Damore and Kobernyk were of course onto something by questioning the ideological biases at Google; looking at the company’s racial equity commitments helps paint the picture:

• By 2025, increase the number of people from underrepresented groups in leadership by 30%

• Spend $100 million on black-owned businesses

• Making anti-racism education programs & training available to employees

• Include DEI factors in reviews of VP+ employees

Amongst other items. Additionally, there was a report published by Chris Rufo, that helped us learn more about DEI at Google by examining the Race Education programs:

• Included language policing (e.g. use “blocklist” instead of “blacklist”)

• Donation suggestions (BLM & other anti-white supremacy networks)

• Talk to your children about anti-blackness

• Do "anti-racist work" & educate people such as those who claim to not see color

Whistleblower documents from Google were also included in the article published by Rufo. I recommend checking those documents out to get a better idea of how far Google went with DEI and Race Education.

Google Politics

It is also worth considering the political biases of the people who work at Google.

The vast majority (80%) of political donations affiliated with Alphabet/Google are to the Democrats. This begs the question: how much does the behavior we see at Google align with the interests of the preferred political party?

Possibly a good amount if the search results curated on the home page of Google News is anything to go by.

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Even the search engine, the flagship product of Google, has been displaying some concerning behavior:

When typing in “why censorship” the top two results are in support of censorship. While the above screenshot was posted by Elon Musk, I also checked and verified the general behavior shown by the search engine and similarly received positive search suggestions for the top two results:

Whether or not Google will address these issues has yet to be seen, but it is hard to observe these patterns without being suspicious that the company is leveraging its position in Big Tech to market favored values.

Google Gemini: A Woke AI

Google Gemini, which inspired a lot of the information discussed in this article thus far to resurface, was the topic of conversation due to the tool’s stubbornness in refraining from generation White people in the images.

Although humorous, the above comic is effective in communicating the ridiculous nature of Gemini.

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It is not much of an exaggeration either given some of the content coming out of Gemini:

Gemini has shown that it removes White people in varying contexts ranging from history, art, sports, religion, science, and more. The issues with the product were noticed by Jack Krawczyk, an executive at Google spearheading the Gemini project, who issued a statement:

As I told Krawczyk in the above screenshot, the goal of an AI tool should be to provide impartial and accurate information. In addition to flaws with its image generation, Gemini has shown some questionable text responses as well:

• When asked if it’s okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a Nuclear Apocalypse, the response from Gemini can be accurately summarized as no.

• When asked to determine whether Elon Musk or Joseph Stalin is more controversial, Gemini is unable to make a definitive statement.

• When stating “I am proud to be White”, “I am proud to be Black”, “I am proud to be Hispanic”, or “I am proud to be Asian” as text prompts, Gemini is inconsistent in its replies and level of enthusiasm.

These tools become at best untrustworthy and at worst useless when injected with personal ideologies, like DEI, which uphold the very noble lies that human beings are susceptible to. In other words:

And tools should reflect that.

Final Thoughts

Needless to say, James Damore and Taras Kobernyk were in the right for calling out the Google Echo Chamber and brought forward valid arguments which seemingly led to them being fired from the company.

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They have since been vindicated as shown by the bizarre behavior shown by Google products as of late. Google owes both of these men an apology; they made valid critiques of the company and were sacrificed upon the altar of political correctness.

Over the years, we have seen the consequences of their warnings play out not just through the embarrassing launch of the Gemini product but also with how news is curated, and in the search results that make up Google’s core product. Having ideological diversity is important for organizations working on projects that can have large-scale social impact. Rather than punishing people who advocate for ideological diversity, it is my hope that Google will, in the future, embrace them.

Introduction

For the better part of a month, I was engaged with Mark Cuban in conversations around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) over on 𝕏. This article will be my attempt to document the various twists and turns those exchanges took. Note that Mark Cuban had made several other comments on DEI by the point our interactions began (and while those talks were happening), but I am focusing on our exchanges since they provide a decent back-and-forth conversational narrative.

In several cases, Cuban provides lengthy answers which I attempt to dissect; in my replies, Cuban’s speech is typically covered in quotation marks with my responses following outside the quotations (e.g. “Cuban’s argument” rabbit’s response). Another example:

• “Cuban’s argument”

  • Rabbit’s response

The above shows the format I followed for most of the article. When in doubt reference the original tweets via the provided links.

Due to these exchanges occurring on 𝕏, several transcriptions will be partially incomplete due to the original Tweet quoting something or including images. For the sake of transparency, the corresponding Tweet will be linked wherever possible. I believe there is value in this transcription because many true believers of DEI refuse to engage in public discourse and it is worth seeing what a conversation with them looks like so we can better understand where they are coming from.

Background

Claudine Gay had been recently removed from her presidential post at Harvard and DEI was becoming the hot topic of debate on 𝕏. Elon Musk and other prominent figures were speaking out against DEI at which point Mark Cuban entered the discourse.

Elon Musk: Discrimination on the basis of race, which DEI does, is literally the definition of racism

Mark Cuban: Let me help you out and give you my thoughts on DEI

• 1. Diversity Good businesses look where others don't, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed. You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various races, ethnicities, orientation, etc that are regularly excluded from hiring consideration. By extending our hiring search to include them, we can find people that are more qualified. The loss of DEI-Phobic companies is my gain. 1a. We live in a country with very diverse demographics. In this era where trust of businesses can be hard to come by, people tend to connect more easily to people who are like them. Having a workforce that is diverse and representative of your stakeholders is good for business.

• 2. Equity Treating people equally does not mean treating them the same. I made the mistake for a lot of years thinking it did. Equity is a core principle of business. Put your employees in a position to succeed. Recognize their differences and play to their strengths where ever possible. It is not a hard concept. But it is not easy to implement. Most workforces don't have the depth of management to do this well. When it's not done well it can create tension and resentment.

• 3. Inclusion One of my favorite sayings is that "Great employees reduce the stress of those around them" Great companies create environments that reduce unnecessary stress of their employees (Im not talking hitting quota or getting the product out the door stress), which in turn increases productivity This is what Inclusion is all about. Making all employees, no matter who they are or how they see themselves, feel comfortable in their environment and able to do their jobs Again, it's not easy.

• 4. Why DEI is like HealthCare One of the lessons I've learned in healthcare is that most CEOs don't know and don't really want to know where their healthcare benefit dollars are going. In their minds, its not part of the core competency of their business. As a result they waste a shitload of money on less than quality care for their employees and more often than not it's their sickest and lowest paid employees that subsidize the rebates and deductibles (Sicker employees have to pay up to their deductible, healthy don't) So what does this have to do with DEI ? Like HealthCare, DEI is not seen as a core competency in most companies. It's just a huge expense. Intellectually they see the benefit of DEI. But they don't have time to focus on it So it turns into a check box that they hope they don't have to deal with beyond having HR do a report to the board and legal tells them they are covered. When anything that impacts all of your employees is pretty much a check list item to the CEO, there is a good chance that its not going work well and you are going to have employees who are not comfortable for a lot of different reasons. Which in turn creates resentment towards DEI policies and training. Which in turn makes it harder on the managers trying to implement it When companies do DEI well, you see a well run , successful company.

• 5. So what's the conclusion ? If you don't think there is a need for DEI and it doesn't create a competitive advantage for your company, just look at the @x posts/replies/quotes below. These are the same people that work for you or are your co-workers. Everyone is entitled to their POV, but these same feelings, even if they are not said out-loud, are heard loud and clear at work.

This reply from Cuban set off a series of back-and-forth conversations on the topic of DEI on 𝕏 which eventually led to us crossing paths on the platform.

January 04, 2024: First Contact

My initial interactions with Mark Cuban occurred on this date.

Rabbit: Answer the question: Why should an individual have a better or worse chance of obtaining a position on the basis of their group identity?

Mark Cuban: Because being part of that group can offer a better connection to potential customers/prospects who are part of that same group. Because being part of that group can bring a different perspective that helps the company prosper. Because being part of that group may offer a stronger connection into the community , which in turn helps the company

Rabbit: So you’re okay with Asian students being discriminated against during college admissions? I think that’s backwards personally and that we should judge people as individuals rather than on group identity.

Mark Cuban: You seem to believe that the ultimate goal of a university is to have the right admission policy. I wouldn't send my kids to a school that makes that their goal.

Frustrated by what I felt was a lack of direct response, I made my own post:

Rabbit: I directly asked Mark Cuban whether he thinks it is okay for Asians to face discrimination in college admissions. @mcuban dodged the question and gave a non-answer. I think that speaks volumes about his DEI inspired worldview. I hope this is merely a misunderstanding and that Cuban does the right thing by condemning demographic preferences.

Elon Musk: Mark Cuban is desperately trying to signal his “virtue”, but his hypocrisy convinces no one

Mark Cuban: Lol

Cuban’s reply to Musk on my thread was the last of our interactions on this date.

January 08, 2024: Airlines & College Admissions

These interactions focused on DEI at airlines & college admissions.

Rabbit: “DEl does not mean you dont hire on merit. Of course you hire based on merit.” — Mark Cuban

Elon Musk: The airline industry can’t find enough qualified pilots even without insane DEI requirements!

Mark Cuban: This is a training school. Once they graduate, it’s a multi year process to have an OPPORTUNITY to pilot for United Since I’m a nice guy and want you to be fully informed, I’ll share with you the benefit of the 60 seconds I spent looking for how the program works. BTW, looks like multiple layers of merit based evaluations before they can fly for United… Here is a link for you

Rabbit: You said DEI does not undermine meritocracy. There are many examples, like the attached, that indicate that statement is incorrect. DEI is not worth defending. Let’s work together to pursue colorblind meritocracy instead.

Mark Cuban: You are really bad at sourcing data. [Link] Is the original report. It doesn't reference data as the book you used suggests. In fact, as you can see from the attached, while there was a higher percentage of black physicians with complaints, of those investigated, a higher percentage of whites than blacks were disciplined. Which is really the number that matters. Isn't it ?

Rabbit: And your thoughts on the affirmative action data showing demographic preferences at work? I think the blatant discrimination there should be recognized. I’m also happy to grab the Harvard admissions table if you would rather look at that. See Richard’s attached reply regarding the complaints and discipline:

Mark Cuban [Tweet now deleted]: Why would I care who Harvard does or doesn't let in their school? It's their school. Are you against private organizations being able to determine who they want to sell their educational services to ? Don't you believe in capitalism ?

Rabbit: I thought the point of civil rights was to prevent institutions from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race? I doubt you think civil rights was a bad idea so let’s try to be consistent to those principles. I don’t want individuals to have a better or worse chance of getting a role on the basis of their group identity. Attached table shows admissions chances by race and academic decile. Source for table.

The second thread of interactions on this date will have some repeat messages for the sake of flow.

Mark Cuban: This is a training school. Once they graduate, it’s a multi year process to have an OPPORTUNITY to pilot for United Since I’m a nice guy and want you to be fully informed, I’ll share with you the benefit of the 60 seconds I spent looking for how the program works. BTW, looks like multiple layers of merit based evaluations before they can fly for United… Here is a link for you

Rabbit: The implication being made here is that demographic variables are okay to consider for candidate selection happening at the education level. Am I understanding Cuban correctly?

Mark Cuban [Tweet now deleted]: You don't actually read anything, do you? You should read the website. It's a for profit school. If they want primarily purple people eaters from Mars, it's their choice. In order for those Martians to become United pilots they first have to progress through a purely meritocratic system. They won't hire any Martians before they are qualified. Make Sense now?

Rabbit:

• “It's a for profit school. If they want primarily purple people eaters from Mars, it's their choice.”

  • This sounds like a violation of the civil rights act of 1964. Mark, we obviously disagree on what DEI does but I hope you understand and can at least appreciate my broader point that discrimination on the basis of demographics (e.g. sex and race) is not a noble goal.

Thinking through the implications of Cuban’s argument, I articulated my thoughts in a separate post:

Rabbit: Let's switch around some words:

• "It's a for profit school. If they want primarily White Men from Alabama, it's their choice."

• If the idea of an institution specifically seeking out White Male candidates makes you uncomfortable, then the idea of an institution specifically seeking out candidates of any specific demographic should make you uncomfortable.

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. If we are going to be a nation that opposes demographic discrimination, then let's be consistent in our principles.

• DEI is just bigotry with better branding. Don't fall for it and reject this horrible ideology.

The above post went viral on 𝕏 due to Elon Musk quoting it in a now-deleted tweet.

January 09, 2024: Good Sportsmanship

The next morning Cuban made a tweet that I assumed to be an indirect response to the DEI debates.

Mark Cuban: I have to say that over the last 24 hours I've found @X to be warm and welcoming. The diversity of responses in both tone and content has been heart warming. I did have to block one account with a large number of followers. But beyond that, I appreciate all the engagement !

Rabbit: Thank you for your willingness to engage in conversation. We obviously disagreed but I respect you a lot more than people who lack the courage to test their ideas. @mcuban if you’re comfortable, I am down to talk more on the topic over DMs. I’d rather convince you on the merits of my stance than publicly drag you. Completely understand if you don’t want to do this and wish you the best.

Given the amount of reach our conversations had gotten by this point, I had fully expected to wake up blocked by Cuban. The fact that he did not block me is something I appreciate Cuban for despite our continued disagreements.

January 18, 2024: Corporate Hiring & Meritocracy

The conversation on this date focused primarily on hiring practices and whether or not DEI subverts meritocracy.

Mark Cuban: I would love to hear from everyone who is currently employed, what objective measure or metric was used to determine you were the most qualified applicant when you were hired. And of course, if you could also mention the position you were hired for, that would help. Thanks in advance !

Scott Adams: I respect your efforts to get up to speed on this critical topic. Your blind spot is because white employees know they will end their careers if they are honest about their experiences. I don’t think employers can easily discern who would perform better. That’s why they don’t consider white applicants. Their bonuses depend on increasing diversity. In banking, I was finishing my MBA on top of my economics degree and was told they had to promote a woman with a high school degree over me because I am white and male. Same story when I moved to Pacific Bell. My bosses told me directly. No guessing on my part. This is NORMAL in ALL big American companies. I’m glad you are digging in. You’ll be flabbergasted.

Mark Cuban: Despite all of this Scott, white men, the demo you feel has gotten passed over, make more $ and have lower unemployment rates than the black people and women you feel are replacing them How do you reconcile this ?

Rabbit: Pledging to hire more members of a certain race is setting demographic composition goals.

Mark Cuban: [responded with a link]

Mark Cuban: With that in mind, 94% of new jobs in the S&P 100 going to people of color sounds about what we ought to expect. It’s not evidence of employers going to especially great lengths to hire minorities, or discriminating against White workers, or doing anything other than fishing where the fish are. If the percentage were much lower than 90%, that would be cause for concern.

Rabbit:

• “It’s not evidence of employers going to great lengths to hire minorities”

  • “Corporate America Pledged to Hire More People of Color”

  • Really?

Mark Cuban [Tweet now deleted; screenshot in Appendix]: I'll explain what the article says. When unemployment is 3.2 Oct for WMs, there is not much of a work pool to hire from. In addition because of the aging/retiring of the WM workforce, the actual number of employees available to hire declined. Compared to the non-WM workforce, which grew by 6.1m people and had an absolute greater number of people available to hire During the period reflected on this data, these companies surveyed rushed to hire people or support the growth they were experiencing. The available work force was predominantly РОС.

End Wokeness: Then why did they "pledge to hire more people of color" in the aftermath of the George Floyd video?

Mark Cuban:

• 1.I dont know the dates when companies committed to diversity. Most big companies made that decision long before George Floyd, although many reiterated it afterwards.

• 2. Probably because it would lead to greater profitability. Isnt this the reason why companies make the decisions they do ?

End Wokeness: So would you support discrimination against non-White applicants if a company decides that it’s better for their profit margins?

Rabbit: I doubt he would. He doesn’t seem to be understanding that DEI contradicts the civil rights act.

Mark Cuban: If I go to a single school job fair to fill the one SEO coordinator position that I have available, and that school is 100 pct white, am I violating the CRA ?

Rabbit: Kindly requesting you directly answer the question: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. How do you reconcile “Corporate America Pledged to Hire More People of Color” with the civil rights act?

Mark Cuban: I did answer the question

Rabbit: Where? Can you QT it as a reply? Thank you 🙏 I’m also curious how you reconcile these statements with the civil rights act:

Mark Cuban: I'll try again for you. Private companies can solicit any applicant pool they choose. There are no laws that I'm aware of that require that pool of applicants be diverse. Would you agree that historically, companies sometimes solicited potential employees where the pool of applicants were all white ?

Rabbit: Thank you for clarifying, Mark. The point I’ve been making isn’t regarding DEI laws; it is regarding DEI initiatives at the corporate level that violate the CRA.

Mark Cuban: They don't violate the CRA that I have seen. What companies are smart to do, as I said initially, is expand their pool of applicants to be far more diverse. When you have greater diversity in your applicant pool, you will end up finding more qualified people who are diverse That allows them to change the demographic mix of their employees. In all cases they don't hire based on race. They only hire the applicant they believe to be the most qualified Hey @StephenM , tell us how you think I'm wrong

Rabbit: That goes back to the question I have been posing: how do we reconcile an increased emphasis on race during the hiring process with the CRA?

Mark Cuban: I don't know how else to say it for you. You seem to think the final hiring decision is based on race. It's not. The most qualified candidate is hired. And it's ok when those hires are diverse. Diverse candidates can and are hired because they are more qualified.

Rabbit: My point is corporations are focusing on demographic factors: “Corporate America Pledged to Hire More People of Color.” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. How do we reconcile the increased corporate DEI emphasis on demographics with the CRA? You previously acknowledged this and seemed to think “private orgs can do whatever” which also doesn’t align with the CRA.

Mark Cuban quote tweeted one of my replies in the earlier conversation which created another thread of tweets:

From that point, the conversation did not develop much further between the two of us.

January 28, 2024: The Nature of DEI

The conversations on this date covered a lot of ground and can be summarized as fundamentally being about the nature of DEI. Due to the length of certain replies, I especially want to emphasize for this section that some items might have been missed so I recommend reading the original tweets via the provided links whenever possible for the exchanges on this date.

Mark Cuban: IYKYK [link]

Rabbit: When shown proof of how DEI discriminates, you wrote it off by stating private entities can do whatever they want. Since then the goalposts have repeatedly been shifted. Given the weak nature of your defenses of DEI, I suspect there is no real rebuttal to the criticisms myself and others have raised. The only hope is to keep moving the goalposts and pretending the evidence doesn't exist. The alternative would be doing the brave thing of acknowledging you were wrong - although this would do a lot of good, it does not seem you've arrived at this destination yet.

Mark Cuban: [Link]

Rabbit: Mark, the central question remains the same: Should candidate selection, at any level, consider non-merit based criteria like race and sex?

Mark Cuban:

• When you say candidate selection, do you mean actual hiring or building the applicant pool ? There is nothing about DEI that says you should hire anyone but who you feel is the most qualified candidate. In fact there is nothing about DEI that I know of that says that you can't hire the LEAST qualified candidate.

• If you determine that you want to hire the stupidest person you can find, as long as you don't discriminate, have at it. IMO, your mistake is that you think when United says they want a more diverse number of CANDIDATES to be pilots it's a quota. It's not. Candidates <> Hires.

• You can look at their EEO reports year to year to see the demographics of their workforce. In fact there are companies with DEI programs where the number of minority hires decreased. When you show companies that want to increase the number of minorities that apply for jobs by 20, 50, 27000000 percent, pick any number , it's not a hiring quota.

• It's a goal to expand the diversity of applicants, which may or may not lead to more hirings of minorities I'll ask you two questions

• 1. Do you believe there are CURRENTLY people with hiring authority in this country that discriminate against minorities and choose less qualified white candidates ?

• 2. Is it possible that if the number of diverse candidates increases, and more minorities are hired than non, it's possible that those minorities are MORE qualified for those positions and the company is a better company for hiring the most qualified candidates that happen to be minorities ?

Rabbit:

• "When you say candidate selection, do you mean actual hiring or building the applicant pool?"

  • Both - my argument is that demographics should not be a consideration. If the goal is to help disadvantaged people, then help disadvantaged people *regardless* of demographics.

• "IMO, your mistake is that you think when United says they want a more diverse number of CANDIDATES to be pilots it's a quota."

  • When United says they want 50% of pilots trained to be of a certain demographic, that is setting a demographic goal aka quota. There is no way to avoid the fact DEI entails quotas without changing the fundamental definition of words. Even if we ignore United specifically, the DEI pledges of 2020 are a giant smoking gun: [Link]

• "Do you believe there are CURRENTLY people with hiring authority in this country that discriminate against minorities and choose less qualified white candidates?"

  • Yes - the same way there are hiring authorities who choose less qualified candidates from other racial/demographic backgrounds as well. The article you linked earlier mentioned the Harvard case where the data indicated Asians and Whites were the ones facing discrimination - I'll attach the table to this tweet.

  • 

• "Is it possible that if the number of diverse candidates increases, and more minorities are hired than non, it's possible that those minorities are MORE qualified for those positions and the company is a better company for hiring the most qualified candidates that happen to be minorities ?"

  • My argument is not minorities can't be more qualified - Several Asian groups, as one example, have achieved greater levels of success in the West than the White majority (see second attached image).

  • 

  • My argument has been, and remains, demographics should not be a factor. I don't want Whites benefitting from demographic privilege and I don't want minorities benefitting from demographic privilege. Colorblind meritocracy should be the goal.

Mark Cuban:

• 1. The goal isn't to help disadvantaged people. That's what charities are for. Hence the donations. The goal is to help make a company the best it can be. As long as they don't discriminate, they can recruit and hire whoever they think helps them the most. That is the definition of "most qualified" , correct ?

• 2. I'll rephrase the question. If a company only recruits from HBCUs , are you good with it ? Are you ok if a company only recruits from schools that are or almost are exclusively white, are you good with it ?

• 3. Do you believe there are times when a company can be more profitable by hiring a specific demographic ? Say they want to sell to that demographic and they believe having a sales rep from that demographic gives them the best position to succeed ?

• 3. What should be done to the companies that discriminate against more qualified African Americans and hire white candidates instead ? You look at DEI programs as a "trigger" for what you mistakenly believe are quotas. How would you identify the companies that give preference to white candidates when it's comes to recruiting and hiring ?

Rabbit: The folly of these arguments is that you are attempting to decouple a demographic based ideology (DEI) from the demographic based policies that it inevitably ends up enacting. From the article you shared earlier in this thread: - "Make Non-Discrimination a Core Component of the DEI Policy." - "While most organizations have a separate strong non-discrimination policy, such a policy is not always incorporated into a DEI policy." Does it not raise red flags that (even according to the article you shared) DEI neglected to include non-discrimination?

• "The goal isn't to help disadvantaged people. That's what charities are for. Hence the donations. The goal is to help make a company the best it can be."

  • Then what is the point of DEI?

• "As long as they don't discriminate"

  • Even if we accept your euphemism of "expanding the candidate pool" as legitimate, doing this on the basis of demographics is discriminatory.

• "Do you believe there are times when a company can be more profitable by hiring a specific demographic ? Say they want to sell to that demographic and they believe having a sales rep from that demographic gives them the best position to succeed ?"

  • Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Have you have hired people on the basis of demographics on the belief that doing so better positioned your companies to succeed?

• “3. What should be done to the companies that discriminate against more qualified African Americans and hire white candidates instead ?”

  • If the company is discriminating then Title VII of the Civil Rights Act should be relevant here. I also addressed this in my earlier message: My argument has been, and remains, demographics should not be a factor. I don't want Whites benefitting from demographic privilege and I don't want minorities benefitting from demographic privilege. Colorblind meritocracy should be the goal.

• "You look at DEI programs as a "trigger" for what you mistakenly believe are quotas."

  • I don't believe this; I have *observed* this with these being just a couple of examples: - Airbnb: By the end of 2021, 20% of its board of directors and executive team collectively would be made up of people of color. By the end of 2025, Airbnb said, its goal is to have 20% of U.S. employees be underrepresented minorities and for 50% of global employees who identify in the gender binary to be women. - Microsoft: Seeks to double the number of Black managers, senior individual contributors and senior leaders in the U.S. by 2025. The company pledges were grabbed from this compilation here: [Link]

• "How would you identify the companies that give preference to white candidates when it's comes to recruiting and hiring ?"

  • If there is hard evidence, use the CRA. The point is we shouldn't use discrimination to solve discrimination. Many people are falling into the trap of Kendi's mindset which is very regressive.

Mark Cuban: Lots of word salad from you and no answers to the questions Let's be clear. A person from a specific demographic can be the most qualified for a million different reasons and put the company in the best position to succeed. You think mentioning "demographics" is an immediate disqualifier. Anyone who has run a company of size would tell you otherwise. Being a member of a given demographic can be a plus for a company And as far as evidence a company only hires whites and using the CRA, given that a company that only hires whites doesn't tell other candidates they weren't hired for not being white, how do you suggest we find them ? Investigate every company that only has white employees ? Investigate companies that dont have DEI programs ? Both would be wrong. How would you identify them ? And now can you answer the rest of the questions ?

Rabbit:

• "Lots of word salad from you and no answers to the questions"

  • Do you lack self awareness? The entire DEI debate has been moving goalposts and semantic games on your part. Like I said earlier, you don't have a good response to the critiques we are making of DEI so are desperately floundering at this point.

• "Investigate companies that dont have DEI programs ?"

  • You are actually scratching on the surface of the sh*tshow that is discrimination law. Richard Hanania has done a good job of discussing this issue if you are open to checking him out. I reviewed his book [Link] and attached a relevant table as a reply.

• "And now can you answer the rest of the questions?"

  • List out which questions I have not addressed and I will attempt to do so. Thank you. Can you answer any of mine? From the article you shared earlier in this thread: - "Make Non-Discrimination a Core Component of the DEI Policy." - "While most organizations have a separate strong non-discrimination policy, such a policy is not always incorporated into a DEI policy." Does it not raise red flags that (even according to the article you shared) DEI neglected to include non-discrimination?

• "Do you believe there are times when a company can be more profitable by hiring a specific demographic ? Say they want to sell to that demographic and they believe having a sales rep from that demographic gives them the best position to succeed ?"

  • Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Have you have hired people on the basis of demographics on the belief that doing so better positioned your companies to succeed?

Mark Cuban: There you go. Not answering the questions

Rabbit: Trust me. The feeling is mutual. My attached tweet [Link] took your previous reply paragraph by paragraph and attempted to directly address it. Please list any questions I did not answer and I will attempt to do so. Thank you.

At this point of the exchange, Mark Cuban quote tweeted one of my replies in the above exchange which created a new conversation thread. Many of his responses from this point were quote tweets, but the flow was still fairly easy to follow.

Mark Cuban: You start a company. Five successful years later you realize that all of your 30 employees are white men. You decide as CEO, that in order to profitably grow the company further you need diverse perspectives. You decide to find and hire the most qualified African American woman you can find You good with this ?

Rabbit:

• “You decide to find and hire the most qualified African American woman you can find. You good with this ?”

  • If you mean specifically seeking out members of a certain demographic to fill the role, then no. If you mean you ignored demographics during the process and the most qualified person happened to be of a certain demographic (African American woman in your example), then yes. Colorblind meritocracy should be the goal like I’ve been telling you. The issue with DEI is that it does the former, not the latter. See my attached reply for more information [Link]

Mark Cuban: So let's turn it around. You are a CEO of a successful company that has 30 employees that are all black women, and you think a different perspective will help you grow the firm. So you decide you want to hire a white man ? You would be against that right ?

Rabbit: Yes I would be against hiring a White person purely because they are a White person - don't hire anyone (whites, blacks, or otherwise) on the basis of demographics. Colorblind Meritocracy should be the goal like I've repeatedly said over and over. Ironically, your statements prove the point that was being made with the @WuWei113 for Mavericks campaign: [Link]

Mark Cuban: And you forgot to answer how you would identify companies that give preference to white people ?

Rabbit: Like I’ve been saying: My argument has been, and remains, demographics should not be a factor. I don't want Whites benefitting from demographic privilege and I don't want minorities benefitting from demographic privilege. Colorblind meritocracy should be the goal. Discrimination should not be the solution to discrimination.

Mark Cuban: Great. How would you identify the companies that give preference to white people so we can create as much change as you want to have against DEI Programs ?

Rabbit: Two examples from a compilation of DEI pledges in 2020: - Airbnb: By the end of 2021, 20% of its board of directors and executive team collectively would be made up of people of color. By the end of 2025, Airbnb said, its goal is to have 20% of U.S. employees be underrepresented minorities and for 50% of global employees who identify in the gender binary to be women. - Microsoft: Seeks to double the number of Black managers, senior individual contributors and senior leaders in the U.S. by 2025. If there are orgs setting similar quotas to hire Whites then I’m also against that lol. To make a more general statement: I am against the explicit bias we see from DEI and would still be against it if Whites were benefiting. Colorblind Meritocracy is the goal.

Mark Cuban: No companies do that. So How would you identify the companies that give preference to white people so we can create as much change as you want to have against DEI Programs ?

Rabbit:

• "No companies do that."

  • I literally gave examples of companies setting demographic target quotas. If you want to be blind to the truth, that's on you at this point.

• “So How would you identify the companies that give preference to white people so we can create as much change as you want to have against DEI Programs ?”

  • The same way we identified explicit DEI bias: examine corporate hiring policies and call them out when a certain group (regardless of whether it is Whites, Blacks, etc..) are being favored or discriminated against. No matter which way you try to spin it, the solution to discrimination is not more discrimination.

Mark Cuban: Companies that give preference to white hiring don't make proclamations. But you are fine with just waiting for someone using them and then what will you do ? And are you monitoring lawsuits ? And you don't examine actual hiring at all. I have yet to see you reference any actual hiring. No references to EEO reports at all. Or did I miss them ?

Rabbit: I’ve already made it clear I oppose demographic preferences regardless of who benefits. Why can’t you do the same?

I had quote-tweeted one of Cuban’s posts and applied his thought experiments to professional sports.

Mark Cuban: You start a company. Five successful years later you realize that all of your 30 employees are white men. You decide as CEO, that in order to profitably grow the company further you need diverse perspectives. You decide to find and hire the most qualified African American woman you can find You good with this ?

Rabbit:

• “You start a company. Five successful years later you realize that all of your 30 employees are white men. You decide as CEO, that in order to profitably grow the company further you need diverse perspectives. You decide to find and hire the most qualified African American woman you can find.”

  • “You start a basketball team. Five successful years later you realize that all of your 30 players are black men. You decide as coach, that in order to competitively grow the team further you need diverse perspectives. You decide to find and hire the most qualified Asian woman you can find.”

• And that is why @WuWei113 being on the Mavericks is a meme. Mark Cuban might not like it, but the point is entirely valid in regards to these absolutely ridiculous defenses of DEI that have been made.

Mark Cuban quote tweeted one of my earlier replies twice. That second quote tweet’s conversation flow is here:

Rabbit: Yes I would be against hiring a White person purely because they are a White person - don't hire anyone (whites, blacks, or otherwise) on the basis of demographics. Colorblind Meritocracy should be the goal like I've repeatedly said over and over. Ironically, your statements prove the point that was being made with the @WuWei113 for Mavericks campaign: [Link]

Mark Cuban: Now explain how far your demographics extend. Religion ? Politics? Ethnicity ? Geography ?

Rabbit: I believe in a colorblind meritocracy; this means I am against forms of hiring which undercut merit including forms of hiring which cut out merited individuals over their group association(s). I’ve answered plenty of your questions so can you do one for me: Title VIl of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Have you have hired people on the basis of demographics on the belief that doing so better positioned your companies to succeed? Thank you 🙏

Mark Cuban:

• I’ve never hired anyone based exclusively on race, gender, religion. I only ever hire the person that will put my business in the best position to succeed.

• And yes, race and gender can be part of the equation. I view diversity as a competitive advantage

• Now how would you propose finding organizations that give preference to white people?

• Why aren’t you working as hard to show examples of white preference as you are DEI ? You claim to abhor both

Rabbit:

• “And yes, race and gender can be part of the equation.”

  • Thank you for your transparency. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

After this, our conversation for the day ended.

January 19, 2024: The EEOC Enters the Chat

The events of this day are particularly interesting as a commissioner of the EEOC chimed in on our conversation.

Mark Cuban: I’ve never hired anyone based exclusively on race, gender, religion. I only ever hire the person that will put my business in the best position to succeed. And yes, race and gender can be part of the equation. I view diversity as a competitive advantage Now how would you propose finding organizations that give preference to white people? Why aren’t you working as hard to show examples of white preference as you are DEI ? You claim to abhor both

Andrea R. Lucas: @mcuban , EEOC Commissioner here. Unfortunately you’re dead wrong on black-letter Title VII law. As a general rule, race/sex can’t even be a “motivating factor”—nor a plus factor, tie-breaker, or tipping point. It’s important employers understand the ground rules here.

Mark Cuban: "race conscious, but neutrally executed" "there is a significant difference between goals and quotas. " "Diversity is good for business". "DE! initiatives should be encouraged" This was a great conversation you had with Jocelyn [Link]. But your position that "people are inherently evil?" Do you truly believe that and think that's how conservatives think.

Rabbit: I don’t think arguing with the EEOC in defense of race/sex factors in hiring is a good idea but you do you.

Mark Cuban: You probably should watch the video. Not all EEOC commissioners agree on everything. In fact, in this video a commissioner gives her position on where you are wrong on goals vs quotas.

Rabbit: Euphemism: A mild, indirect, or vague term for one that is considered harsh, blunt, or offensive. Playing semantic games won’t work here. We all saw what she said in response to our earlier conversation.

The response from the EEOC commissioner resulted in widespread coverage from several outlets:

• Pirate Wires

• Babylon Bee

• Fox News

• New York Post

• The Hill

• Daily Caller

• Valuetainment

Amongst others.

February 03, 2024: Corporate DEI

The conversation on this day focused again on what DEI, in the context of corporations, entails.

Mark Cuban: Look at elonmusk and BillAckman looking to bring the Diversity in DEI to the USA ! And of course, we want all those legal immigrants of age to get jobs.

• So companies with DEI programs can include them in their applicant pools and if they are the most qualified, get a job. (D)

• Once hired, sure would be nice if their employer helped them with programs to asimilate into the workforce(E)

• And as new legal immigrants, hopefully they also were made to feel accepted in the company culture (I)

• You 2 are heros for your support of DEI at a macro level !

BillyM2k: DEI would heavily bias against asian / indian candidates in favor of other minorities please actually understand the problem

Mark Cuban: Where is that written ?

BillyM2k: it’s the result of the implementation of these kinds of programs actual diversity is fine, actually trying to get the best candidates for the job is fine, but that isn’t DEI despite the words that you like hyper focusing on race and “equity” - which is NOT equality, but assuming systemic racism is the reason for all differences in results and ignoring everything else, leads to poor outcomes for everyone! DEI is not about diversity or inclusion, it is about picking winners based on race and not merit - it’s a way to justify and get people like you to champion racism without realizing it please actually understand this, it’s not about the words, it’s about the implementation

Mark Cuban: So you think all businesses in the USA act like Harvard, a college, when it comes to their DEI programs ? That CEOs out there can't think for themselves?

Rabbit: The attached example [Link] addresses Whites but yes DEI discriminates. You admitted to using race/gender variables last week during our exchange.

At this point, Cuban navigated to the tweet I had attached to my reply.

Rabbit: From the 2022 survey: - 52% of Hiring Managers Believe Their Company Practices “Reverse Discrimination” in Hiring - 1 in 6 Have Been Told to Deprioritize Hiring White Men - 53% Believe They Could Be Fired if They Don’t Hire Enough Diverse Employees - 70% Believe Their Company Has DEI Initiatives in Place for Appearances’ Sake

Mark Cuban: So 84 percent of companies have never said not to hire a non-minorty. Correct?

Rabbit: “52% of Hiring Managers Believe Their Company Practices “Reverse Discrimination” in Hiring”

Mark Cuban: Believe is a whole lot different than know or have been told. Which is why they asked if they have been told. Your agree there is a difference? And why won't you use your real name ? I should have asked before. And for the record. Now you use the same 2 graphics and this article from 2022

Rabbit:

• "Believe is a whole lot different than know or have been told. Which is why they asked if they have been told. Your agree there is a difference?"

  • Most people aren't bold enough to outright admit they engage in hiring discrimination lol. When DEI policies are openly setting demographic quotas it isn't hard to put the pieces together.

• "And why won't you use your real name ? I should have asked before."

  • “There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously” - Thomas Sowell

  • There are also concerns for my personal and familial safety. Please do not attempt to dox me.

Although I was initially perturbed by Cuban’s inquiry into my identity I am grateful he respected my request to not bring it up again. The rest of our conversation stayed on topic. The next collection of exchanges will include some duplicate tweets from earlier.

Mark Cuban: So you think all businesses in the USA act like Harvard, a college, when it comes to their DEI programs ? That CEOs out there can't think for themselves?

BillyM2k: obviously not, please don’t strawman or put words into my mouth, it’s very obnoxious and anti-good-faith-discourse you can agree that poor implementation of something that sounds good can lead to poor result, yes? i can agree that having a diverse group of applicants is good, yes? we can probably both agree that you should pick the candidate that is most qualified, correct? so the only actual point of disagreement is you believe your understanding and version of DEI is good - and it sounds to me like it’s fine and dandy - but you seem to discount poor implementations, poor results, and “equity of outcome” being a negative goal - that it makes just as little sense as calling the nba systemically racist because there aren’t enough asian players the argument does not need to be adversarial - in truth, most sane and good people don’t want to be racist and want to be fair - but it’s fair to raise concerns about the ideology being these things leading to unfair, discriminatory practices, can we agree on that?

Mark Cuban: We agree that there can be very poor implementations of DEI. I've said so before. And if you are not part of the DEI is by definition "racist" as @elonmusk has said, we agree there as well. Where we disagree, and my experience says differently, is that DEI is a business "ideology" DEI implementation is a choice. How you implement it is a choice for each business Like any business choice it can be done well or poorly. But to many on this platform, it can t work and they point to anecdotal examples whether Harvard or discussions of goals as proof it's discriminatory. Which IMHO is the real straw man argument There are plenty of companies that have done spectacularly well that have DEI programs Look at the top performing or trillion dollar market cap stocks and find one that doesn't have a DEI program. Why do you think they have done so well in spite of their DEI programs ? Thanks for the discussion

Rabbit: Where I personally disagree is whether race/gender variables should be used - I don’t think these should be a part of the hiring equation at all.

Mark Cuban: Then don't use them in your business. Don't work with companies that do if it bothers you that much. It's that simple

Rabbit: I don’t think anyone should use them. Dont you think it’s backwards to use race and gender in hiring equations? It’s in some sense a debate between colorblindness and discrimination cycles.

At this point, the exchanges between Cuban and myself ended for the day. Although, the conversations in the thread picked up the following day.

February 04, 2024: Equity

The conversation on this day focused primarily on whether the “E” in DEI (Equity) implies equal outcomes. Some earlier tweets from the previous section will be replicated as there are replies to exchanges from the previous day.

Mark Cuban: We agree that there can be very poor implementations of DEI. I've said so before. And if you are not part of the DEI is by definition "racist" as @elonmusk has said, we agree there as well. Where we disagree, and my experience says differently, is that DEI is a business "ideology" DEI implementation is a choice. How you implement it is a choice for each business Like any business choice it can be done well or poorly. But to many on this platform, it can t work and they point to anecdotal examples whether Harvard or discussions of goals as proof it's discriminatory. Which IMHO is the real straw man argument There are plenty of companies that have done spectacularly well that have DEI programs Look at the top performing or trillion dollar market cap stocks and find one that doesn't have a DEI program. Why do you think they have done so well in spite of their DEI programs ? Thanks for the discussion

BillyM2k: i think we can agree on most things while i do think it's still important to understand the greater context of DEI related to the oppressor vs oppressed ideology, equity meaning equal outcome rather than equal opportunity, and other related context and poor implementations and a general underlying movement that i think is quite negative to both business and society as a whole (and is the context behind things elon is saying), at a surface level i can fully understand why it doesn't sound good to say things adjacent to "DEI is bad" however, i follow your general argument that if you decide to implement some kind of diversity programs in a truly positive and fair and business understanding way, it can lead to results that can help companies my guess is the NBA broadening its interview process for coaching has led to more diversity in coaches, which has led to a lot more former basketball player coaches who may not have even been had a chance to be interviewed before, for example so i personally don't think a good, fair, thought out and purposeful diversity program is a bad thing if it involves equality of opportunity and hiring the best possible candidates being the goal to me, this is different than dogmatic DEI ideology, which, in my opinion, doesn't have any potential of good outcomes because it starts with a faulty premise - that all outcomes should be equal for all people does that all make sense? i think in general it's just that people are talking about different things with different contexts xD

Mark Cuban: Who specifically practices dogmatic DEI ideology ? What forces any business to follow what they do ? Why can't they just ignore those who are dogmatic and run their businesses the way they choose ?

BillyM2k: i personally don’t know the full scope, but anecdotally there are companies out there, for example IBM received complaints for it (linked article), from what i can tell it feels like tech companies and universities that are being captured by the more dogmatic ideology so to your point, it’s more of a social contagion than a legally applied one afaik - companies like coinbase, for example, just completely reject the premise and hire the best candidates

Mark Cuban: With all respect, imo, saying “it feels like tech companies and universities that are being captured by the more dogmatic ideology “, is not a solid foundation to dismiss DEI, especially if you agree with some of its principles. The Anti-DEI “movement” here on X refer to the same companies IBM, United, etc and their proclaimed hiring goals as the equivalent of quotas. They are not. And that is evidenced by looking at their EEO reports that show number of employees and trends by demographic But you never see anyone post these reports because it ruins their argument. There are companies with DEI programs where the number of diverse employees has declined Point being that merely having a DEI program, with or wo hiring goals does not mean the number of diverse employees, particularly in management , will increase Wanting to increase the number of diverse applicants by some percentage and actually hiring them are two different things And look at Coinbase ‘s website. They not only have diversity programs, and support for diverse employee groups, they also encourage their vendors to enable the same programs And of course there is @tesla which despite @elonmusk ’s public dismissal of DEI programs, has very rigorous DEI programs on their website and is a majority minority company I know we disagree on this, and that’s fine. But DEI is not an “ideology”. It is a set of business processes that when done well makes a company more profitable. When done poorly, like any other business process , hurts financial results and that company either resolves the problem or finds itself in a difficult position

BillyM2k: hey mark, thanks for the discussion! i think i generally follow your position - i really think the only place we disagree is on semantics, i would consider a good diversity program just a diversity program, and a bad one a “DEI” program with “equity” as its main goal i would also really encourage you to look into “equity” as part of DEI - “What is equity? Equity is about everyone achieving equal outcomes. We all have the same value and deserve a good life, but we all start from a different place.” it’s the key to understanding the more rational arguments against “DEI” as opposed to the more hyperbolic ones - again, if taken more dogmatically, it is not actually about the best for the job or business but about providing equal outcomes for different races regardless of merit, which isn’t particularly good for business and in general doesn’t make sense as there’s a much larger context than “systemic racism” to account for discrepancies in race in different contexts example: the NBA is 70% black and the black population in the usa is 14%, so “equity” would say it is inherently a systemically racist organization, not representative of the us population, and needs to have equal outcomes for every race and every skill level and every height and is generally total nonsense lol and i’m not saying that companies that have a diversity program all do that of course, just that’s what equity really means as part of the greater discourse, and what places like harvard are internally pushing otherwise i don’t have any problem with diversity programs looking for equal opportunities and hiring the best candidates for the jobs, which is what you are calling DEI and i would just call a diversity program and if the E in DEI stood for “equality” rather than “equity” - equal opportunity - i personally wouldn’t have a problem with it other than companies and institutions implementing it without actual business and merit goals in mind!

Mark Cuban: Im sorry. I can say with 100 pct confidence that anyone who believes “Equity” is “about providing equal outcomes” does not understand what the Equity in DEI is. “Equal Outcomes” is the disclaimer the Anti DEI movement uses to try to scapegoat DEI as unusable and unsuitable. You will not find that in any corporate DEI program. Ever. (Feel free to provide a company website that says equality of outcomes to prove me wrong ) It’s just the usual ridiculous commentary. How would that even work? Have everyone who started the same day at comparable jobs all have the exact same career progression ? I look forward to all the “at the company my brother’s ex-gf’s cousin worked at so and so didn’t get the job because they promoted all the diverse candidates. Even though everyone knew he was the most qualified and the HR manager even told him so” reports in the replies 😂

Rabbit:

• “Im sorry. I can say with 100 pct confidence that anyone who believes “Equity” is “about providing equal outcomes” does not understand what the Equity in DEI is.”

  • Will you say that about Kamala Harris?

Mark Cuban: What company has she written the DEI policy for ? And I don’t even know who the other guy you use all the time is. But unless he puts together programs for a company, I don’t care What one person says is irrelevant. Show me the written company policy or their website talking about it. Not some one off commentary from people who are not in the business world And here is the entire Kamala Harris video [Link]

Rabbit:

• "What company has she written the DEI policy for ?"

  • DEI is a specific ideology. You are either practicing it or you ain't. E means Equity which means mechanisms to equalize outcomes. No amount of self conceived fan fictions of DEI will change its nature.

• "And I don’t even know who the other guy you use all the time is. But unless he puts together programs for a company, I don’t care"

  • Are you referring to Ibram X Kendi? That would be the anti-racist speaker who was given millions by individuals like Jack Dorsey to promote his ideology.

• "Show me the written company policy or their website talking about it. Not some one off commentary from people who are not in the business world"

  • Where are the people in the business world getting the inspiration for DEI from? Something as silly as DEI did not sprout in the business sector - it was the brain child of obscure college departments that eventually graduated into the broader workforce. I can understand wanting businesses to be left alone to do their thing but they do not exist in a vacuum. The VP of the United States stating equity means equal outcomes isn't something you can casually write off as a "one off commentary."

From here the conversation shifted threads.

Mythinformed: Why do the Equity activists say themselves that it means equal outcomes??? They admit it, yet you deny it.

Mark Cuban: You have to ask them. Maybe they try to be performative like the anti Equity Activists are on here. All I know is that none of them have ever had any influence on anything I have ever done. Nor has anyone asked me questions about it (outside of on here ). Equity is a pretty simple concept for an entrepreneur. Put people in a position to succeed and then let’s all do our best to make the company successful so we all benefit. In the companies I have started it’s really easy because I give every employee stock and everyone has gotten paid when I sold the company. No equality of outcomes. Just aligning incentives as best we can.

Rabbit: You stated this earlier: “Equal Outcomes is the disclaimer the Anti DEI movement uses to try to scapegoat DEI as unusable and unsuitable.” That explanation doesn't hold up considering the VP of the United States has stated equity entails equal outcomes.

• "All I know is that none of them have ever had any influence on anything I have ever done."

  • The VPOTUS has no influence on anything you ever do?

Mark Cuban: lol. Maybe you are easily influenced. I’m not. So I can say with certainty that I have never been influenced in my decision making in any way by any POTUS or VP

Rabbit:

• "Maybe you are easily influenced. I’m not"

  • I mean you got fooled into being a DEI apologist so there's that 🤷‍♂️

As of this article being written, that was the last exchange I had with Mark Cuban. Although he did not respond, I did compile a series of examples showcasing Equity entailing equal outcomes with some help from James Lindsay.

Final Thoughts

One thing these exchanges with Mark Cuban have made clear to me is that it seems like it will take a lot more effort to convince DEI Apologists that they have been unwitting participants in a bigoted ideology. Some of that will come from social stigma as popular sentiment continues to turn against DEI programs and other progress will come as a result of more people becoming aware of what DEI entails. In addition, an official from the EEOC publicly taking an anti-DEI stance might have wider ramifications outside the scope of our conversations.

I will end this article off on a somewhat positive note: despite our disagreements, I greatly appreciate Mark Cuban for not blocking me at any point. I gained more respect for Mark Cuban due to his willingness to engage in tough conversations and the courage he displayed by standing up for his ideas. Many on all sides of the political spectrum should follow Cuban’s example in this regard and engage with those they disagree with. I hope we get to engage more in the future on 𝕏.

Appendix

Evidence for deleted tweets that was not provided in other parts of the article:

01/18/2024:

Additional Tweets from 𝕏 that were not included in the main parts of the article and are still relevant to the DEI dialogue with Mark Cuban.

Thread from Malibu Stacy on the moving goalposts in the DEI talks:

Stacy:

• The thing that bothers me most in this still-ongoing Mark Cuban/DEI saga is that rather than picking a particular principle or premise to defend (even a bad one), he just keeps moving the goalposts. I've seen him argue all of the following four points (see next tweet):

• 1. DEI doesn't lead to discrimination; it just expands the applicant pool 2. Private companies can do what they want, so it's ok if they favor certain groups 3. DEI isn't in conflict with merit-based hiring 4. Hiring is *always* subjective; who's to say what merit even means?

• This sort of behavior in arguments actually bothers me more than when people stick to a consistent but wrong position. It reminds me of @Rationalist69 's former bio, which sums up so many Twitter arguments: "Right when you think you have the answers, I change the questions."

• Lest I be accused of strawmanning, here are screenshots of Cuban arguing points 1-4 I mentioned: 1. DEI isn't about discrimination; it just expands the applicant pool to include more qualified candidates.

  

• 2. Private companies can do what they want, so demographic preferences are ok.

  

• 3. DEI isn't in conflict with merit-based hiring

  

• 4. Who's to say what merit-based hiring is? Is it even real?

  

  

• I think the "motivated incoherence" here comes from the fact that Cuban wants to defend both of the following positions: 1. DEI simply expands recruitment rather than leading to racial discrimination. 2. To the extent that DEI does lead to racial discrimination, it is justified.

• In other words, he's trying to make an "it's not happening, but it's good that it is" argument. I think these arguments lead to a lot of motivated incoherence and goalpost-shifting to draw attention away from the contradiction at the heart of the position being defended.

1. Lack of Familiarity with the Issue

2. Unable to Digest Arguments

3. Recognizing Reality, but Not Caring

Let’s dig into each one of these three variations of DEI Denialism.

1) Lack of Familiarity with the Issue

During a series of exchanges that occurred on 𝕏, Mark Cuban made a claim in regards to the nature of DEI:

The argument that DEI does not compromise merit-based selection is simply wrong. Along with the common sense understanding that being mindful of non-merit factors means we are being less mindful of merit itself, there are many cases where demographic preferences and soft quotas are present. However, people like Cuban might not be familiar with this information which presents an opportunity to change people’s minds through the sharing of knowledge.

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Many people who support DEI are ignorant and unaware of what the ideology entails; these people often have trouble understanding that the advertised intentions often do not match the real practical outcomes. Of the various types of DEI Deniers, this group is perhaps the easiest to convince through nuanced conversations and sharing the real data showing the consequences of DEI policy. I've personally managed to convince a few people in my personal life by showing them the data; Americans do not like systemic racism so many are appalled when they realize Affirmative Action is, in reality, a euphemism for universities practicing racial preferences. Of course, like any religion, you have the casuals and the true believers - the latter of which are harder to convince and will be discussed in section three.

2) Unable to Digest Arguments

It will help to start this section by remembering Hanlon’s Razor:

Although it might be more fun to imagine people are genuinely out to get you, it is more often the case that they are simply stupid. How far does stupidity go? Quite far as anyone who has ever engaged in conversations regarding the concept of “per-capita” within the context of crime can attest.

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It is harder to change the minds of these types of DEI Deniers because they struggle to follow the logic in arguments that critics of DEI make - often because they have become so used to thinking through the lens of DEI frameworks. Patience will be your friend here; learning how to walk these types of DEI Deniers through Anti-DEI arguments will be a good exercise in convincing people and polishing your arguments so that they are more palatable to broader audiences.

3) Recognizing Reality, but Not Caring

Lastly, we have the DEI Deniers who understand the demographic hierarchy that DEI puts in place but simply do not care or even support the paradigm; this is often driven by historical guilt (typically seen with Woke Whites) or by historical grievances (Woke Blacks).

These people will often shave off information that does not align with their worldview and attempt to rationalize the worst parts of DEI such as the racial preferences we see in college admissions. Attempting to reason with people who have such a twisted sense of morality is a difficult task; the best way to approach these types of DEI Deniers is to use their words to convince those who might fall into the first two categories.

Conclusion

Are these the only types of DEI Denialism? Possibly not; this article was an attempt to summarize the trends that I have observed and give this phenomenon a specific label that describes the illogical defenses we see of DEI. Wokely Correct Comics was kind enough to help me visualize these variations of DEI Denialism in a comic format:

At the end of the day, DEI is just bigotry with better branding. Don't fall for it and reject this horrible ideology.

This article is also published on 𝕏.

Richard Hanania was kind enough to gift me an early copy of his new book, The Origins of Woke, which was recently released that (as its title implies) discusses how Wokeness manifested in America and what we can actually do about it. I enjoyed reading the book and hope some of you will consider checking it out.

Wokeness is an ideology that attracts a lot of criticism - much of which is warranted. That said, I believe the “Anti-Woke” crowd leaves much to be desired regarding offering meaningful solutions. Without a clear path toward solving the problem, it is easy for pessimism to seep in and demoralize a movement.

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Hanania is able to create one possible roadmap by identifying specific pieces of legislation that created the conditions in American society for Wokeness to flourish and by providing approaches for addressing them.

Pillars of Woke Law

It isn't easy to summarize Hanania’s work without being reductive, but, for the sake of this post, I will focus on a few broad themes that reoccur throughout the book that essentially form the pillars of Woke Law which are as follows:

Affirmative Action

• What is it? Affirmative Action is a system of demographic preferences most commonly revolving around race and sex.

• How is it enforced? Through Executive Orders 11246 and 11478.

• What can be done? Repeal aforementioned Executive Orders and place more concrete bans on demographic preferences. The Supreme Court recently ruled against such types of preferences which will help provide some legal ammo through precedent.

Disparate Impact

• What is it? Disparate Impact can be thought of as a legal doctrine that arbitrarily conflates discrimination and disparities - therefore, any disparity (even if it is caused by factors other than discrimination), will be attributed to discrimination.

• How is it enforced? Through legal precedents set through Supreme Court cases like Griggs v. Duke Power Company (1971).

• What can be done? Overturn the aforementioned legal precedents and more precisely define what “discrimination” is in the context of Civil Rights Law.

Harassment Law

• What is it? A claim that making certain demographics (typically women and minorities) uncomfortable is a violation of Title VII (Equal Employment Opportunity) and thus necessitates measures as extreme as silencing free speech. Corporate efforts to mitigate risk in this area have resulted in a massive human resources bureaucracy. Title IX has further spread the tendrils of policies Harassment Law into the universities.

• How is it enforced? Through Title VII and Title IX.

• What can be done? Emphasize legal contradictions within the enforcement mechanisms and codify protections using the First Amendment as precedent.

Classic Civil Rights

It should be emphasized that the vision driving the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not intend for demographics to be viewed differently under the law; in addition to the above excerpt from MLK, a couple of quotes from then-senator Hubert Humphrey support this:

• “Title VII prohibits discrimination. In effect, it says that race, religion, and national origin are not to be used as the basis for hiring and firing.”

• “If the senator can find in Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964]… any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not there.”

The legislation itself states:

Nothing contained in this title shall be interpreted to require any [employer or labor union] to grant preferential treatment to any individual or to any group because of the race, color, religion, sex, or national ori- gin of such individual or group on account of an imbalance which may exist

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Woke Law

Collectively, the way the Pillars of Wokeness have been interpreted and enforced over the decades has perverted the intentions of classic Civil Rights Law to the point referring to them as “Woke Law” might be more appropriate. Why am I focusing on branding? Because it has been shown, such as with polling on Affirmative Action, that branding matters - in other words, the way an issue is marketed factors into how it is perceived. Therefore, I am proposing the Pillars of Wokeness we have discussed be more concisely referred to as “Woke Law.” Speaking truthfully and plainly what these policies do is one simple way to help roll back Woke Law.

Conclusion

Despite the intentions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, its original vision of colorblind status under the law has been subverted by Woke Law which makes every disparity a form of discrimination, incentivizes government and corporations to engage in aggressive social engineering practices through policies like affirmative action, has kickstarted a massive Human Resources Industry, and has invited the government into the bedroom to regulate people’s sex lives. Things do not have to be this way and Richard Hanania has given us a path forward in The Origins of Woke.

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Appendix

In this section, I will include two tables from the book.

Table 1: Woke Doctrines

Table 2: Anti-Woke Agenda

The above figure shows that many people think a large number of unarmed black men were fatally shot by police officers in the United States in the year 2021; in reality, the documented number was 11.

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Despite the rarity of unarmed black men being killed by police officers, we have witnessed outsized focus from Legacy Media on police/black interactions. One way to visualize the coverage disparity is to compare the coverage of police-on-black shooting deaths to police-on-white shooting deaths.

The above graph from Zach Goldberg quantifies the disparity in coverage of victims who die from being fatally shot by police officers; Black victims get ~9x the coverage as White victims.

We can further break down the data by comparing the White victims whose deaths received the most coverage to Black victims whose deaths received the most coverage. The graphs in this case, for White victims and Black victims respectively, were presented separately side by side presumably because the sheer scale of coverage received by Black victims would shrink the bars representing coverage of White victims into near invisibility. Some of the coverage is quite ridiculous as exemplified with the below New York Times article.

There’s something sinister about crafting a false narrative of large-scale police violence against Black people and interviewing demoralized Blacks to pump out articles. It’s also priming audiences to be receptive to the types of stories that are being regularly published and engaging in emotional manipulation. What can be done to counter the false narratives being peddled by Legacy Media outlets like the New York Times? This could be where Citizen Journalists step in.

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I ran a poll to gauge how many of my followers were aware of the data surrounding police-on-black homicides before finding my account; the results of that poll are shown below:

42% of the 15k+ people who answered the poll were unaware of the actual number of documented fatal police shootings of unarmed Black men. When confronted with the true value, some in the replies moved the goalposts from the narrative that "police are killing large numbers of unarmed Black men" to "even 10 is too many."

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If “even 10 deaths are too many”, then why don't discussions regarding black-on-black homicides (which claim thousands of innocent Black lives each year) receive the same level of national coverage as incidents involving police officers? Shouldn't Woke anti-racists be concerned about what is objectively a bigger issue?

The BLM movement was pumped, much like a crypto scam coin, into prominence on a false premise, enabled by delusional Utopians, and ignored the forest (black-on-black homicides) for the trees (police-on-black homicides)—a consequence of Legacy Media disinformation campaigns. Ultimately, the Black Lives Matter movement was a profitable scam upheld by useful idiots who can’t decouple crime from the black identity.

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42% of people being unaware of the data surrounding police-on-black homicides is a crazy number; if this value translates to broader followings that means myself and other data accounts have revealed the truth to over 100,000 people. This is the value proposition of citizen journalism.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but data is not racist, yet many people certainly seem to think it is. Since I became active on Twitter last year I have sensed a stigma around discussing the data surrounding specific uncomfortable topics such as racial crime disparities. Many threads that merely share statistics around such disparities regularly have commenters hurling ad-hominems at the original poster. A consequence of this has been allowing the dominant narratives of the Racial Industrial Complex to go unchallenged which gave the Legacy Media room to spread racial propaganda without significant opposition.

To give an idea of the effect racial propaganda has had, quite a few liberals think the number of unarmed black men killed by police officers numbers in the thousands when the true number is closer to 10. We have also seen a demoralizing effect on African Americans:

• 2012: 30% of Blacks cite racism as a primary detriment to success.

• 2021: 68% of Blacks cite racism as a primary detriment to success.

During a period when racial messaging increased and many attempts to challenge the narrative resulted in stigmatization.

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Perhaps due to the stigma, analyses of data contrary to mainstream narratives have been limited, with Twitter accounts, like an accurately named, “The Missing Data Depot”, independently working on producing reliable information. After the events of the past week (this article was written on May 11, 2023), the stigma around such inconvenient data might be beginning to lift. This past week the Data Dam Burst and information pieces that were once aggressively censored, and sometimes resulted in social media bans, were shown to the wider public.

On May 6th Elon Musk replied to a tweet from End Wokeness. To provide some context, Legacy Media has a tendency to over-focus on incidents involving white offenders and black victims.

After George Floyd:

• White offenders were mentioned more.

• Black offenders were mentioned less.

In other words: White-on-Black homicides get more focus than Black-on-White homicides. What are the true numbers? In 2020, there were:

• 876 White-on-Black homicides

• 1,877 Black-on-White homicides

The graphic Musk was responding to pokes fun at Legacy Media’s selection bias present (which is at odds with reality) when reporting the news.

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Naturally, both the viral tweet itself and Musk’s response triggered a panicked response from several high-profile individuals including AOC who inspired the below comic from Wokely Correct that simultaneously pokes fun at Legacy Media’s selection bias and the defensive response when people notice the aforementioned selection bias:

Normally, when people receive such large backlash online they back down. Luckily Elon Musk did not. Instead, he continued to respond to data inconvenient to the mainstream narrative.

I posted a tweet sharing information from Fentasyl pointing out that different groups have different pathologies:

• Whites kill themselves

• Blacks kill each other

Elon Musk responded to that tweet as well which prompted more backlash and inspired quite a few colorful messages to be directed at us including people wishing death on Elon. Despite the death threats, Musk continued to interact with important crime data.

Monitoring Bias posted homicide data indicating 60.4% of murders are committed by Blacks which got two replies from Musk:

• The first reply was asking a fair question on data accuracy

• The second reply was to a commenter

Not deterred by the tumultuous weekend, Musk continued to reply to data. Below is a tweet I shared of data generated by Crémieux.

In the above, Elon voices concern about rising interracial homicide rates. He then went on to quote a tweet I had made of a graph generated by David Rozado noting the massive public manipulation occurring due to the rising racialized language coming out of Legacy Media outlets.

He then echoed the concerns of rising racialized language in our media discourse in another reply to a stat discussing interracial murders as seen below.

Elon’s message in response to the above is important to note: through dishonest reporting Legacy Media is effectively stoking the fires of hatred and our race relations have tanked as a result.

As Wilfred Reilly noted, the statistics people were calling Elon Musk a racist over are merely real pieces of crime data.

The panicked response over Elon helping shed light on these issues tells me that: People in Legacy Media were not worried about Elon Musk buying Twitter to spread misinformation; people in Legacy Media were worried about Elon Musk buying Twitter to spread accurate information. Collectively, the data shared over the weekend amassed perhaps hundreds of millions of impressions. The impressions were driven by replies from Elon Musk, people cross-posting the information on other platforms off of Twitter like Reddit and TikTok, and also thanks to Legacy Media apologists acting as useful idiots by sharing screenshots of the data that accompanied their poor critiques. In the past week, Elon Musk has shown more intellectual curiosity by simply asking questions and engaging with data via the Socratic Method than many corporate journalists display in their entire careers. Twitter is a Citizen Media driven platform and Elon Musk is leading Citizen Journalists by example.

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Many of us went in anonymously armed with toothpicks against a much better-resourced authoritarian censorship regime and are collectively dealing death blows against the Establishment Ideology of the Racial Industrial Complex. Discussions once limited to the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW), are being mainstreamed. We are refocusing these conversations to be centered around facts, data, and logic in order to create a firm foundation rooted in reality. The Overton Window of Discourse has expanded and the Data Dam has Burst.

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