When Threads launched on Wednesday, numerous right-wing users shared(opens in a new tab) their dissatisfaction(opens in a new tab) with Twitter’s biggest competitor — on Twitter of course — over having their accounts flagged for disinformation. As of Friday, however, it seems the warning label on accounts that reported the issue has since disappeared.
Is phrenology a big thing? I know it’s was popular a couple hundred years ago but did it make a comeback? This is the 2nd time I’ve heard it brought up in the last week and I just didn’t realize that was popular these days.
I can’t speak to phrenology per se, but phrenology’s modern analogue is, in my opinion, the “genetics” argument. Whereas phrenology was some attempt to “explain” how the apparent shape was indicative of underlying brain structure, contemporary “scientific” racists will use genetic differences to “explain” whatever behavior they want to attribute to it.
People who want to do phrenology now tend to hide it in an “AI algorithm”
Not necessarily phrenology specifically, but scientific racism is a thing. One example is Stefan Molyneaux, if you want someone to look up. The “science” these people use is often poor or extremely misleading.