Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as “a Danish data scientist who has raised new questions about Claudine Gay’s use – and potential misuse – of data in her PhD thesis” in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal website last Friday.
He did not tell readers that a paper featuring Pallesen’s own statistical work in collaboration with the eugenicist researchers has been subject to scathing expert criticism for its faulty methods, and characterized as white nationalism by another academic critic.
The revelations once again raise questions about the willingness of Rufo – a major ally of Ron DeSantis and powerful culture warrior in Republican politics – to cultivate extremists in the course of his political crusades.
The Guardian emailed Rufo to ask about his repeated platforming of extremists, and asked both Rufo and the Manhattan Institute’s communications office whether they had vetted Pallesen before publishing the interview. Neither responded.
Motherfucking eugenics is making a comeback, Jesus they’ll be citing phrenologists next
Dude I dunno. I’m disabled. Eugenics never left, people just got smarter talking about it.
A fair point, I’m autistic and have definitely had questions about kids, I’m not having them for different reasons but I guess I didn’t realize that IS eugenics in the moment. Nobody’s been feeling my skull though
I am very sorry. If it helps any at all you should know that the majority of people are wise enough to know that an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. If we can cleanse people based on a disability we can cleanse people based on anything really. Maybe bald people are not fit to live, maybe ugly people, maybe short people, maybe brown, maybe woman with small boobs. Once humans are not the measure of all values, once science is replaced with bullshit like IQ, the values of the world are whatever the powers-that-be declare to be icky.
You have value, your value is the same as mine, your value is the same as everyone else. Fuck Nazis, fuck IQism, and fuck anyone who tries to make you or anyone else disabled feel like crap for the crime of existing.
Sure why not? For some reason Google news wants to tell me my horoscope every day, I know ani-vaxxers, I know people who swear by chiropractors and reki healing, I know gluten avoiders. Should we even discuss what happened to all the TV networks that used to run educational programs?
Maybe fuck it, maybe we are all heading back into the dark ages.
Just wanna say some people have to really avoid gluten. It’s called celiac’s disease.
I am not talking about the Celiac crowd
Sure, but when someone tells a server that they absolutely can’t have gluten, but then says that the fries cooked in the same oil as the breaded chicken fingers will be fine, they probably don’t have celiac disease.
Broca’s area removed!