Noah Carl
@NoahCarl90
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Editor @AporiaMagazine. Writer @LD_Sceptics, @UnHerd.
Joined May 2019
It's tragic. With $44 billion, Elon Musk could have armed literally millions of moderate rebels in the Middle East.
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Claiming that the mere presence of someone with a different viewpoint makes you feel "unsafe" is nothing short of delusional.
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The "gender pay gap" is a problematic concept, since it implies that there are only two genders.
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There's a story about an American tourist visiting Oriel College, Oxford. He asks the porter, "Is this college pre or post-war?" And the porter replies, "My dear fellow, this college is pre-America.".
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The left:
According to the left and the centre, the far-right is an existential threat to democracy. Yet the far-right would be irrelevant if not for mass immigration. Therefore, mass immigration is an existential threat to democracy.
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Racist conservatives love pointing out that Jordan Neely had 42 arrests. But this actually isn't a large number. There have been over 300 million arrests since Neely was born, so he accounts for a tiny a fraction of the total.
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Loss of one's sense of taste is a primary symptom of COVID-19, which suggests the disease may have been circulating in the modernist architectural community for several decades.
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Almost all the people killed by police in the US are men. This must mean the police are sexist.
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To increase Asian representation in the NBA, we need to move away from narrow measures of performance that focus on basketball ability, and instead embrace holistic forms of assessment that take into account how players contribute to a team's overall diversity.
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Somalis in Britain have an incarceration rate that is 14 times higher than the rate for British nationals. Albanians have an incarceration rate that is 63 times higher.
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Ideas that used to be right-wing but are now left-wing:. • Adopting things from other cultures is bad.• What your ancestors did matters.• Large corporations can be a force for good.• Some religions shouldn't be criticised.• Academics need to sign loyalty oaths.
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.@nayibbukele recently claimed that El Salvador is now "the safest country in Latin America". I looked into this claim: based on the latest homicide data, there's good reason to believe it's true.
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We need a "Resign for Diversity" campaign. White people who believe their profession needs more "diversity" should resign and give up their positions to members of underrepresented groups.
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Roughly speaking, "diversity" means "the percentage of people who aren't white males".
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There are now a substantial number of people in the media and academia whose primary occupation, and primary source of meaning, is ruining other people's lives.
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The case for meritocracy is very simple. Do you want your heart surgeon to be selected on merit?.
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The Conservatives have been in power for over a decade, yet there are dozens (perhaps hundreds) of public sector jobs with titles like "Head of Diversity and Inclusion". Why?.
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Now they're saying that he punched a 67-year-old woman in the face. There have been dozens of cases of 67-year-old women getting punched in the face, and the vast majority of them didn't involve Jordan Neely.
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Obesity, like homosexuality, is one of the few traits that left-wing commentators will readily ascribe to genetics. To argue otherwise, they fear, would be to claim that obese people and homosexuals chose to be the way they are.
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I just learned that eugenics is deeply embedded in the farming industry. They literally "breed" plants to obtain "better" varieties. This is sick.
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Conservatives like to say "strong families" are part of the Western tradition, and that's true relative to today. But the West is actually the least family-oriented part of the world. So it would be more accurate to say "weak families" are part of the Western tradition.
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North Korea has won more gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad than:. • Italy.• Israel.• India.• The Netherlands.• All the countries in Africa combined.
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"Does 2 + 2 = 4?"."Ugh. umm. err. that's a really divisive question."."But does it equal 4?"."I don't know why we have to talk about numbers when there are so many other issues."."It's a simple yes or no question."."Look, both 4 and 5 are important numbers in society.".
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According to the left and the centre, the far-right is an existential threat to democracy. Yet the far-right would be irrelevant if not for mass immigration. Therefore, mass immigration is an existential threat to democracy.
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Why do so many people object to the BBC's decision concerning Last Night of the Proms? It is perfectly logical that if a man dies in police custody in another country, then three months later you remove the lyrics to patriotic songs at an annual music festival.
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The creationist campaign to dethrone Darwin is gaining strength.
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Professor Greg Patton was suspended by the University of Southern California for the crime of pronouncing a non-English word correctly. Have any of Patton's USC colleagues spoken up in his defence?.
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A few people sending abusive tweets means we need to clamp down on social media anonymity. But it's fine to host the World Cup in a country that uses slave labour. The important thing is that footballers get paid.
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@BBCNews 'Thousands of French people guillotined during largely peaceful Reign of Terror'.
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In his 2018 New York Times op-ed, Harvard geneticist David Reich said: "Well-meaning people who deny the possibility of substantial biological differences among human populations are digging themselves into an indefensible position".
Matt Goodwin says developments in genetic science will make younger generations more conservative as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups.
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This is how you would talk to a class of primary school children.
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Interesting fact: Czechia (one of the least religious countries in the world) has a higher fertility rate than Turkey.
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"The transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars a year (in the US) from men to women artificially harms men’s relative economic status, which in turn harms marriage prospects."
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Western leaders for the last two-and-a-half years: "The principle of territorial integrity is sacrosanct, regardless of nations' perceived security threats.". Israel: "Yoink!".
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Everyone knows that Britain's economy would simply collapse without mass immigration. For centuries it was in a state of permanent collapse. Only in the mid 1990s, when the era of mass immigration began, did we first manage to scrape together a few pounds of economic output.
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My friend was delighted when her new baby said its first word: "b. b. birthing parent".
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In my new column: Justin Trudeau's government is currently subjecting Canada to a bizarre experiment in pedal-to-the-medal mass immigration, with the logically inevitable consequence of high housing costs making family formation unaffordable for Canadians.
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I agree totally. Apartheid must be smashed & the two state solution is nearly impossible (even if desirable for a number of reasons). The only realistic civilised solution is for a single secular state for all - with equal civil liberties independently of religion and ethnicity.
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Which of these countries is it morally defensible to buy oil from?
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Just a reminder that going out for a pizza is cultural appropriation if you're not Italian.
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It's a disgrace that in 21st century America – one of the richest countries in the world – there is still a test-score gap between whites and Asians.
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Police shootings disproportionately affect the male community, leading to an epidemic of violence against male bodies. When will we face up to the reality of systemic police sexism?
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If top scientists will tell "noble lies" about the efficacy of masks and the threshold for herd immunity, just imagine what other politically contentious topics they might not be wholly truthful about.
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I'm surprised at how disliked Elon Musk is in Britain. Even two thirds of Conservative voters have an unfavourable opinion of him. He's even more disliked than the Prime Minister.
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Do you think it is fair that women earn less than men in the same occupation?.
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Universities shouldn't issue public statements on any issue – whether it's Black Lives Matter, Ukraine or Israel/Palestine. That is simply not what they are for. Moreover, members of a university invariably have different views and the university cannot speak for all of them.
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The ratio of Democrat to Republican professors in different disciplines, according to a 2018 paper by Mitchell Langbert:. • Engineering = 1.6:1.• Economics = 5.5:1.• Physics: = 6.2:1.• History = 17.4:1.• Sociology = 43.8:1.• Anthropology = 133:1.
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Left: US statement on Russia and Ukraine. Right: US statement on China and the Solomon Islands.
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We need to decolonise air traffic control. Who says that only Western science has something to teach us about flight? We should explore indigenous ways of landing.
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Here's what one BBC writer said in 2016:
"As for the black Iron Age blacksmiths and black Medieval barons, the BBC appears to have simply invented them. A search for any historical basis for these depictions, however tenuous, yielded no results." .
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"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.".––Thomas Jefferson.
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"There is no free speech crisis in academia. I work on the mating habits of the lesser spotted woodpecker, and I've never had any problems.".
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A woman was forced out of a company she founded for stating a scientific fact in her own home.
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A map showing the net fiscal contribution of immigrants from different countries of origin in the Netherlands.
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Conservatives believe that just because they can cite examples from schools, universities, charities, large corporations and government departments, "wokeness" is somehow widespread in society.
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@RichardHanania If Hamas is worse than Nazis, why did Netanyahu send Yossi Cohen to "beg the Qataris to keep funneling money into Hamas"?
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Remember that the "Conservatives" had 14 years to put an end to this.
Up to £139,882 per year for an 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champion' within the NHS. This level of funding simply cannot be justified. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I believe that this money should be spent on frontline staff - not obstructive diversity bureaucrats.
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According to a Home Office official who spoke to the i newspaper, "the only way to cut illegal migration is a combination of safe and legal routes and a change in foreign policy". This would be like arguing that the way to reduce crime is to make crime crime legal.
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"Women tend to be overrepresented both in government jobs like teaching and in jobs created by government regulation like HR, which artificially inflates their wages relative to their market value.".
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Why not "decolonise" academic positions occupied by white people who support decolonisation?.
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Is there a more straightforward example of racial discrimination in American society than Harvard's admissions policy?.
A below-average African-American applicant has a better chance of being admitted to Harvard than an Asian-American applicant in the top decile of applicants.
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The Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan may have killed as many as 40 million people (about 10% of the world's population at the time). Why, in 2008, did Mongolia honour him with a giant equestrian statue? Problematic, to say the least.
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The guy who dropped off my pizza hadn't issued a public statement of support for Black Lives Matter, so I called Deliveroo and had him fired.
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There are so many examples from US foreign policy where you think "come on, that must be made up", but it isn't. "Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria" – actual quote from a leaked email sent by Jake Sullivan to Hillary Clinton.
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New study finds that people with higher cognitive ability are more supportive of free speech and less concerned about political correctness:
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"High-skilled migrants from Europe and East Asia found a lot of companies. Therefore we need more low-skilled migrants from Africa and the Middle East." This is most pro-immigration arguments.
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I will no longer speak at conferences with those who deny transracial people's right to exist.
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I wrote a paper arguing that academics from overrepresented groups who are in favour of more "diversity" have an obligation to resign and give up their positions to members of underrepresented groups:
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JD Vance: "AI is not going to replace human beings. It will never replace human beings.". Sam Altman: "This is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs.". There seems to be a disconnect here.
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Apart from Robert McNamara, Bill Bradley, Gary Hart, George Kennan, Henry Kissinger, John Mearsheimer, Jack Matlock, William Perry, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Cohen, Vladimir Pozner and Jeffrey Sachs, who could possibly have seen the Ukraine crisis coming?.
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It's noteworthy that Just Stop Oil protestors haven't thrown paint on any modernist "art". The reason being that you wouldn't be able to tell if they had.
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Why hasn't Saudi Arabia been sanctioned for its bombing campaign in Yemen? According to Wikipedia, more than 12,000 civilians have been killed to date.
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If you apply "Diversity Is Our Strength" to the whole world, it implies we should retain as many distinct nations and cultures as possible.
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Social scientists are meant to be interested in culture. Yet because of their overwhelming left-wing skew, they've shown almost no interest in the Great Awokening, which constitutes the most rapid shift in elite culture in modern history.
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It only took 18 years for Churchill to go from greatest Briton to deplorable racist.
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National IQ map created by @KirkegaardEmil based on a new dataset of "basic skills". The new dataset was compiled by three economists. They do not cite any intelligence researchers, but still managed to replicate their results.
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Deeply worrying that elderly Germans are being radicalised to support high levels of immigration. Unfortunately, TV and newspapers now serve as gateways to some very extreme views.
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This morning I couldn't find my keys, and I realised the problem was probably whiteness. But then I found them, so maybe it wasn't whiteness after all.
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Population pyramids for Europe and Africa shown on the same scale:
Centre-right politicians insist on blaming "people smugglers" for the migration crisis because it would be in poor taste to say that migrants themselves are the problem.
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I have a new theory of epidemiology which states that viruses cannot be transmitted at protests that it would be ideologically inconvenient for me to criticise.
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We live in strange times where if you sing "Ausländer raus" ("Foreigners out") while drunk with your friends, you will be completely cancelled. But if you display the flag of a paramilitary group founded by neo-Nazis in the Houses of Parliament, nobody in the establishment cares.
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New reports indicate the horse that bolted at yesterday's protest was linked to a number of far-right groups.
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A new slogan for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as it tries to reimagine itself in the aftermath of the pandemic: Build Bats Better.
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A photo of me wearing a cowboy costume when I was five years old has surfaced online. I was an idiot child who knew nothing about the world, and I would like to apologise to the people of Wyoming for any offence it may have caused.
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Ibram X. Kendi has proposed a constitutional amendment that "would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold". If this amendment were passed, both the NBA (74% black) and the NFL (70% black) would be in violation of the constitution.
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When asked in 2011 which religion is the most violent, people in Western countries overwhelmingly said "Islam", while people in Muslim countries overwhelmingly said "Judaism" (except Turkey, where a slightly larger share said "Christianity").
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My latest newsletter argues that the influx of women into academia was one cause of the Great Awokening:
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Centre-right politicians insist on blaming "people smugglers" for the migration crisis because it would be in poor taste to say that migrants themselves are the problem.
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A lot of educated people take the positions they do primarily because they don't want to be associated with those who take the opposite positions.
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@bronzeagemantis People already accept large racial disparities in sport. They also accept large disparities in life outcomes among individuals. Doesn't seem a stretch to believe they will one day accept large racial disparities in life outcomes.
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Conservatives can no longer sustain the argument, "college students won't be able to cope in the real world", since much of the real world is now every bit as woke as college.
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It should not be a crime to:. • Burn the Quran.• Make racist jokes.• "Misgender" someone.• Offer "conversion therapy" .• Express support for Hamas. That's what free speech means.
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If race is a social construct, what makes it possible to say that Jessica Krug is not black? I am genuinely curious.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his not getting cancelled depends upon his not understanding it.
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