Disney VP: Disney Discriminates Against White Male Writers and Actors
Michael Giordano, VP and Team Lead at Disney explains on hidden camera that white male writers and actors need not apply at Disney.
George Carlin’s Position on People and Groups
The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don’t belong; it doesn’t include me, and it never has. No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
George Carlin, Preface to "3 x Carlin" (2008)
How to Keep the Poor Poor
"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion."
Thomas Sowell
Belief in One’s Victimization: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Classic scar experiment that is highly relevant to modern times, where people who believe that they are victims try to cash in on that purported victimization over and over, classic case of confirmation bias and WYSIATI.
More on the Dartmouth scar experiment at Psychology Today, along with commentary regarding Andy Clark's work on predictive processing, including a link to fascinating rubber hand experiments.