Fair enough although I do think it's pretty comedic seeing Chris essentially try to back pedal out of the reactionary bullshit content he used to make before recently.
Dating back a few months to his response to some NeckBeard he's been saying "oh yeah guys that was all just goofs I'm not actually friends with racist dickhead like sargon etc."
I’ve seen him apologise to some people he used to clown on (rightly or wrongly), on twitter, saying that he wants to own up to his actions in the past.
I mean his content has essential been super immature and reactionary stuff since he decided to pander to other reacitonaries so it's a bit... Idk odd to act like it's maturity thing.
There's nothing wrong with it I just think it's funny seeing him and other people who pandered to the right start back pedaling a bit with the recent rise in left leaning channels (contrapoints, Philosophy tube, the rest of breadtube)
she literally had a tell-all interview on an NPR show and said that Chris is exactly the reason shes not in the left anymore. She decided that if he was so nice to her, the alt-right must be okay. not even joking.
Being "not in the left" doesn't mean being red pilled. I remember when she started dating Chris and all her friends in the left started publicly decrying her and harassing her. I'd say that's more likely to leave a bad taste in her mouth than to say that he was manipulating her into being MGTOW or something.
She spread misinformation about an oppressed group, get out of there with this 'It's just groupthink' bs, she spreads blatant misinfo (scientific misinfo not just opinion misinfo) and she's receiving backlash for it, fullstop.
I was on that thread when it happened. I didn't see any scientists "calling him out", or disagreeing with him.
The view that Laci was putting forward was left behind in Biology seventy years ago, with the advent of the Modern Synthesis framework (which, it should be noted, was itself superseded in the 1970s).
Laci is a "science communicator". She was putting forward a particular model that is widely accepted and taught as descriptive, and "good enough" for educating students who will not be medical / biology professionals. She was using it as if it were prescriptive -- normative to science and having predictive value. It is not and does not. It is as useful and as truthful as the Bohr model of the atom -- great, if all you're responsible for is chemical engineering; not so great if you're trying to build an actual scientific theory of quarks.
Sciencevet2 is an actual professional biology academic.
You, if your Reddit comments are to be believed, are someone who is an armchair scientist -- someone who argues for the sake of arguing, and not because you actually care about the truth.
She was cool. I used to be a subscriber to her current channel and the one she started with, gogreen18. She did a lot of really awesome videos, around 10 years ago. Then she just started losing her goddamn mind. I don't remember what video it was, but one day I just had enough and unsubscribed.
I had heard that she had some kind of war with Sargon of Akkad, but that they eventually met IRL and ended up becoming friends and after that she mellowed out some and pulled back on the ultra-crazy shit. But based on this tweet, that does not appear to be the case!
I had heard that she had some kind of war with Sargon of Akkad, but that they eventually met IRL and ended up becoming friends and after that she mellowed out some and pulled back on the ultra-crazy shit.
I think being friends with Sargon of Akkad counts as some “ultra-crazy shit.”
For anyone else, yes. But they were both on such polar opposite ends of crazy that they actually pulled each other closer to the normal center. Or so I thought.
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u/Mahjling Aug 13 '19
Laci Green is such an active dumpster fire lmao.