Viral "Racism in Academia" Story Deleted When I Started Asking Questions Generated by TLDR This:
“So I did an experiment, I am looking for a postdoctoral position and decided to check to what extent racism in science could be.
They demand explanations, they demand answers.
That smoking gun came from a reddit thread shared on /r/MensRights a few days beforehand, pointed out most prominently by Stuart Ritchie: Take a look at the similarities between the two: As I was looking at all of this, Mohamad happened to send another tweet: While his full name is inevitably visible in archives, I have no interest in haunting him as his top Google result forever, so I leave it out of both this post and my screenshots.
But for most people, it’s easy enough to find something they don’t care to apply particular scrutiny to as they browse their social media feeds.
When it clashes with your chosen narrative, it simply fades away.
Someone with more sinister intent could have dodged my question, ignored people pointing out incongruities, and left the story up to let it keep spreading.
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It was #1 on HN for a brief period, but it looks like it's been smashed off the first page since.
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the only thing that site does well is detect unnatural engagement. every sv startup ceo tries to get their "we're building the uber of x" pr fluff to their front page
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Yeah, they usually de-weight political stuff pretty quickly, so I wasn’t surprised to see them push it down the page. Happy it climbed at all, really.
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