Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Clades not clusters: about the folk theory of race

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A clade is a group of organisms with a common ancestors. Identifying clades in human genetics maps out the ancestry of human groups. Like ...
Friday, June 14, 2019

How to play intersectionality

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I recently read, in quick succession, “ Whiteness as Property ” published in 1993 by Cheryl L. Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw’s 1991 essay “...
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Friday, June 7, 2019

Sex, Sexuality and doing evolutionary reasoning badly

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This post  by Darwinian Reactionary provides an excellent example of using evolutionary reasoning badly. He is using evolutionary reason...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Whiteness is not property: deconstructing critical race theory

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This is a long post, in part because I do not have time to write a short one. It is a response to a 1993 Harvard Law Review essay by Cheryl...
Friday, May 24, 2019

A climate change election, just not in the intended way ...

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Based on a comment I made here . In its dynamics, the  2019 Australian federal election was 1993 re-run : an Opposition expected to win ...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Bravado in the absence of order

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Areo magazine has published another essay of mine, Bravado in the Absence of Order , which examines why African-American urban communities...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Piety Display not Virtue Signalling

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I have an essay in Areo Magazine arguing that piety display is often a more accurate term than virtue signalling for what people are typ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Giving more power to entropy in its endless war against order

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Merit and competence is often hard to measure. Give a bureaucracy some simpler metric (say, diversity points) and it will grasp it with al...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

India v Pakistan v Bangladesh

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India is an extremely genetically diverse nation, with considerable cultural, religious and linguistic diversity. So, what are the common...
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This blog has been quiet

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This blog has been quiet because I am writing a book on marriage, to be published by Connor Court , and have been composing essays, hopeful...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Migration complexities and the campaigns against social bargaining

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This is based on a comment I made here . Coming from a country (Australia) with a much higher proportional immigration flow than the US,...
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