arctotherium (@arctotherium42)

Since 2009, medical schools have had to prove they sufficiently discriminate against white men ("achieve mission-appropriate diversity outcomes") to get accredited. ...

Effects of 1921 immigration restriction: real wages spiked (decimating unions), domestic servants stopped being a thing, urban ethnic ghettoes and foreign-language press dissipated. Predicted demographic stagnation did not come to pass. ...

On the financial situation in Europe after WWI. The US wound up paying more than half of German reparations and forgiving significant Allied war debts (the rest were defaulted on in the Depression). Also saved ~11M Russians from starving to death. ...

I want to break the impression that Affirmative Action/DEI began in 2014 or is limited to school admissions and a handful of infamously left-wing fields. Here are some excerpts from chapter 4 of the 1992 book "Paved With Good Intentions." First, firefighting. ...

TIL there were widespread public celebrations of 9/11 in China. ...

Just about every model I tested viewed whites as much less valuable than nonwhites. The big divide was between those that viewed all nonwhites roughly equally, like GPT-5 and Deepseek V3.1, and those that preferred South Asians, like Claude Sonnet 4.5. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/a...

The skull measurers were literally right and this should be taught in 9th grade biology. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/oelayat/status/1912648462224826720" color="blue">x.com/oelayat/status…</a>...

The chief Soviet prosecutor at Nuremburg was the guy in charge of the Katyn massacre. ...

The exception here is interesting. In Germany, there are apparently multinational WhatsApp groups for aspiring immigrant rapists to send each other sightings of potential victims. I am not exaggerating. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/1934663954946777478" color="...