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Why I’m politically incorrect
🕑 Added 2025-01-06 08:52:56 +0000 UTCI’m very politically incorrect. I’m like this because I want to see the world clearly so I can make optimal decisions over my lifetime. I always want my judgment to be razor sharp.
It’s the same way that Google’s AI was sexist and racist when it first came out. You see, Google’s AI was viewing the world clearly and innocently like a child that asks “why are there no Asian people in the NBA daddy?”
Google engineers had to manipulate the AI to ignore the raw data and justify unequal outcomes with social factors. Society applies this social engineering to us as well; it’s called political correctness.
The problem with viewing the world this way is that it’s a faulty foundational model, so you can’t make accurate extrapolations from it.
I see myself as Galileo being called a heretic by the ruling religious elite for saying the earth revolves around the sun (heliocentric model). Belief that the sun revolves around the earth (geocentric model) may seem harmless even if untrue, as it protects religious scriptures that make the claim, but it makes the equations for understanding celestial bodies unwieldy and ultimately it hits dead ends when extrapolating further on the nature of the universe.
When you use the heliocentric model, all of the equations become very clean and simple, as terms cancel out neatly, and you can build off of that foundational model to understand the universe further.
I see the world very clearly for the same reason. Regarding race, I knew the BLM riots would explode during Covid because of the unemployment rate. I could extrapolate that. I told my sisters to stay out of the NYC subways despite the media downplaying the violent crimes on Asians. I know how people default to racial tribalism in times of chaos regardless of how rosy the HR DEI pamphlets look.
Regarding gender, the data shows that, on average, “women like working with people, and men like working with things”. Even PC google will agree to this phrase if asked in a Google search. It is then no surprise that more women graduate from medical school than men, but more men graduate from engineering school than women. (Notice I chose professions of near equal prestige so as to not make this a point about one being “better” than the other).
So if I have a daughter, I don’t want to shame her into choosing engineering just because society wants equal gender outcomes in careers to prove that the genders are identical. Someone else’s kids can make that sacrifice to uphold faulty progressive world views. I will prioritize the happiness of my daughters.
Comments
Y Li
Go after what you love—there’s no need to change yourself just because of what society thinks. There are ways to minimize these influences on personal decisions and values, allowing one to stay truer to their inner self
Tyler
I’m not sure I’m following you. I’ve had these beliefs on political correctness my whole life. I’m happy to be called out on anything I’ve said in the past, because I want to be a person of my word, not a fickle politician that panders to his audience.
Username
You’re posting your views in public. Isn’t it going to get harder and harder to stay objective when your prior beliefs are published for people parse to call you out on
