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Re: disbanding/defunding. Provocative naming aside, disbanding effectively entails making a new police force. It looks like a way to get around police unions and start fresh. It's been done in relatively small locations. Camden, NJ disbanded and made a new one - crime rates are broadly down ...

@Traze Patriots burnt down a stamp distributor's office building, and a lieutenant governor's home. They also tarred and feathered customs agents. And they "fractured the skull of loyalist Thomas Brown, then tarred his legs and held them over a fire. Then they scalped him and left him for dead"...

@Elilla I see the problem with the ACLU, and I like the other organizations you've suggested, but as far as I can tell, the ACLJ seems to overwhelmingly focus on right-wing Christian cases. It also funds criminalizing homosexuality in Uganda. It's difficult to demonstrate the impartiality of an...

@RCcola33 I'm not claiming there aren't biases, or that academia is perfect. There are, and it isn't. I'm questioning how you get from the affair to arguing that academia is relatively unproductive. If the grievance studies affair doesn't generalize, I don't see how you can generalize it to...

@RCcola33 Hence why I qualified it with "most" - Academia isn't a monolith. Neither is a particular field, which is a flawed generalization dervied from those sort of hoax studies. Alan Sokal (a professor who wrote a widely known hoax study) puts it well (in the context of his hoax): As for the...

@Tamerlane What about academia? Not a perfect analogy, but it's heavily moderated (through the education system, peer-review, etc); most fields aren't echo-chambers and have more productive conversations than anything that happens in a lassiez-faire environment. Admittedly, the criteria and...

@Elilla How is the American Center for Law & Justice non-partisan? On the front page of their website: Regardless of your take on it, that's pretty partisan. Likewise, they tried to sue over the mosque near Ground Zero.

@Jdeoxys Which experimental papers? This is the only meta-analysis I can find, which says: It should be noted that the samples used included non-police officers, which the paper also addresses:

@WhimsiCat Oh no, boomer is perfect. Translation is inherently inaccurate, but "boomer" captures the spirit really well, and is hilarious. Fogey, or any other alternatives I can think of, would sound pretty unnatural.

@Anra7777 They got "boomer" from "꼰대", which means "someone with overly traditional, outdated values that they try to impose on others". That's more or less how a lot of people her age use "boomer" now. Can you think of a more suitable word?