Shot in the Dark

Category: Escape From The Narrative

  • Compromise

    Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…

  • Surprising Almost Nobody

    So it turns out that “implied bias“ testing is based on some fairly dubious psychology, and “implicit bias training” actually makes things worse. Never saw that coming.

  • Low Expectations

    Democrat politicians tend to talk down to black voters, according to Fox News Fox News Fox News! Sorry.  I mean Yale: The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in speeches delivered to mostly white audiences. The difference wasn’t statistically significant in speeches by Republican…

  • Things That Keep Democrats Up At Night

    As Bill Whittle noted in a video I featured the other day, Kanye West’s apostasy on Donald Trump and the idea of leaving the Democrats’ narrative does something that was unthinkable not too long ago; given black people “permission” to leave that narrative behind. And if you take this Pew poll seriously, they’re thinking about…