Many past cultures left no written record, so their orally transmitted creation myths are now increasingly misused to trump scientific evidence such as DNA analysis. In Quillette, Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer tell how disagreeing with the literal interpretation of animistic myths is met with predictable cries of “racism” and “white privilege.”
Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.
