Researchers in one study discovered that leading AI models for processing hate speech were one and a half times more likely to flag tweets as offensive or hateful when they were written by African-Americans and 2.2 times more likely to flag those written in the variation known as African-American English — commonly used by black people in the US.

The second study found racial bias against African-Americans’ speech in five academic data sets for studying hate speech. The sets included some 155,000 Twitter posts.

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Some words that are considered slurs in most settings, such as the N-word, may not be in others. As of now, most machine learning systems can’t parse this type of nuance.

AI trained to detect hate speech online found to be biased against black people

While enjoying my cup of Schadenfreude, I cannot think but how beautiful the chickens look when they come home to roost. First they establish that one race in particular can use a word freely but if the rest of the world uses it, then it is the worst of insults and people who use it are racist maggots. And when the ultimate in technology is used to finally do a mind control and silence the wrongthinkers, the machine actually attacks the protected group.

Irony, Thy is Beautiful to I.

Hat Tip Robert E.

The Soviet Union was known for carrying out show trials to convict political opponents of Stalin.

China under Chairman Mao had what were known as struggle sessions.  Chinese who did not show enough loyalty to the Community party were publicly tortured and humiliated until they showed absolute fealty to Communism, were executed, or committed suicide.

The American Left is fully embracing the same tactic.

They expect Conservative Americans to fully participate in their own show trials and humiliation.

Those who don’t are shamed.

If you want to know why not one Republican wanted to go on this CNN town hall, it’s because we all remember the one after Parkland.

Shall we recount what happened in that two-hour hate?

Here is a kid who is being openly hostile and insulting to a sitting United States Senator who knows he can’t do anything but be deferential to this mass shooting survivor.

Why would any Republican willingly subject themselves to such abuse?

They shouldn’t.

Rather than acknowledge that the last town hall got out of hand and that letting kids scream at people who showed up to have a good-faith discussion, and tell them that they have blood on their hands was not the best way to move forward on this topic.  Jake Tapper decides to shame Republicans for not participating in a gun control struggle session.

The gun debate in America was never a good-faith debate, but now they are not even pretending to want to debate anymore.

The next town hall in which is Republican shows up is going to look like the ending of Braveheart, breaking on the rack and all.  Which is exactly what they want.

Following the international kerfuffle where Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were denied entry into Israel, the level of toxicity of Jew-hatred on social media has gone from drinking out of the Ganges to having a seat on the Elephant’s foot.

Apparently, half the world expects Israel to welcome into two people who openly advocate for the end of the Jewish state.

Because Jews are not just expected to provide the rope that’s used to hang them, they have to tie the noose and erect the gallows too.

But I think the worst of what I’ve seen comes from this thread by Molly Jong-Fast.  Go read it if you want to give your soul cancer.

the gist of it, backed up by her supporters, is that the Republicans who are condemning Tlaib and Omar’s antisemitism really secretly hate Jews, are actually white supremacists, and only care about Israel because they want to kick off the rapture.

And that it is the party that refuses to condemn antisemitism, that supports BDS on college campuses, that calls Israel a “Nazi Apartheid state,” and argues that “Palestinian rights” justifies terrorism, is really the party the supports the Jews.

It’s not like one the Democrat’s leading kingmakers is responsible for two pogroms in the United States.

I mean, who are Jews supposed to believe really hates them.  Those white Republicans who openly support Israel and condemn people who make accusations of dual loyalty against American Jews…

Or

Those intersectional Democrats who keep saying the antisemitic things that the Republicans keep having to condemn?

I guess I’m going to believe my lying eyes and trust that the people who act like they hate me, hate me, and those who don’t, don’t.

All I really know is that this has put me in a foul fucking mood.

California colleges banned the Pledge of Allegiance because of “white nationalism.”

So has a city in Minnesota.

Halfway around the world, the people of Hong Kong are flying American flags and singing the Star-Spangled Banner in protest against the ChiComs.

https://twitter.com/SullyCNBC/status/1162368819026771970

There is more pro-American patriotism in the former British colony of Hong Kong than there is in the Democrat party.

Considering how much American Democrats love heavy-handed, anti-gun, totalitarian statism, I say we propose a trade.

We’ll give China our coastal Democrats and we’ll take the population of Hong Kong off their hands.

I am holding officially suspensions from both Twitter and Facebook. It has to be a new record. I covered the very weird Twitter suspension on a previous post and I must now explain Facebook.

I am a fan of Larry Correia’s book and moderate one of his fan pages in Facebook. The whole thing started with Larry (who is hated in SciFi literary circles for many alleged sins, but mostly for being successful) getting a suspension for, shit you not, insulting the people of an imaginary country.  Larry ws a Krasnovian Scum abusing the peaceful goats of the brave Republic of Pineland with a waffle iron. If the names sound familiar to some, it os because they are fictional creations by the US Army for training games.

As the fan club does, we didn’t get pissed but took the whole fun idea with Larry’s suspension and made it an “official” exchange of threats between the two countries because Pineland had arrested Larry and held him for war crimes. When the ban was lifted, it was played as if Krasnovian Special Forces rescued Larry and took him back to the safety of the Motherland. Basically we did what the fascist SciFi intellectual circle hates the most: having “wrongfun.”

Unfortunately, Larry caught another suspension shortly after and we were beginning to suspect if it had to do with the goats. I did some tests and WHAM! I got nailed when the term “Goat Fucker” was used by your truly. Now, I only know it was Goat Fucker because of a very brief message that appeared in my phone showing what post was against Facebook code of conduct and was erased. It never showed again and I can’t get them to repeat it for screen cap which smart on their part making it your word against them if what they ban you for is silly.

In the meantime, we decided to start a new group in MeWe and away from the stupidity and eventual collapse of Facebook. In 24 hours, over a thousand fans have migrated and obviously is taking a bit to get used to the new format.  It seems you can be Antifa and  doxx your enemies or even be ISIS and have  shitload of pages trying to attract followers, but using the term goat fucker is beyond the pale for Facebook.

Fuck ’em

When the government says “you don’t need an AR-15,” you need to go out and buy an AR-15.

So what should I make of all these politicians and their lackey pundits saying “you can’t own a tank or a fighter  plane?”

This is a followup to my post Senate Democrats threaten the Supreme Court over the Second Amendment and inch us closer to CW2.0.

Since I posted it, National Review and the Wall Street Journal have both covered this story.

Just to gloat, I beat the pros to print, because when it comes to important and timely analysis, you dear readers know that legacy media is dead.

I found the brief from the Supreme Court’s website.  It’s a doozie, you really should read it.

It reads like the unhinged conspiracy rantings of Leftist professor.

The Wall Street Journal’s statement was correct:

The not-so-amicus brief attacks the Federalist Society by name five times, as if the network of bookish conservative-leaning students and lawyers is responsible for swinging elections.

The brief doesn’t once mention the rule of law but instead refers entirely to political donations and polls.

To stem the growing public belief that its decisions are “motivated mainly by politics,” the Court should decline invitations like this to engage in “projects.” See Quinnipiac Poll, supra note 2 (showing fifty-five percent of Americans believe the Court is “motivated mainly by politics”). 

The idea of a Supreme Court seat being a lifetime appointment was to divorce the court of politics.  These Senators suggest that the court is supposed to consult polling data to determine how it should make decisions.

Petitioners’ effort did not emerge from a vacuum.  The lead petitioner’s parent organization, the National Rifle Association (NRA), promoted the confirmation (and perhaps selection) of nominees to this Court who, it believed, would “break the tie” in Second Amendment cases. During last year’s confirmation proceedings, the NRA spent $1.2 million on television advertisements declaring exactly that: “Four liberal justices oppose your right to self defense,” the NRA claimed, “four justices support your right to self-defense. President Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh to break the tie. Your right to self defense depends on this vote.”

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies published an article this spring describing what recent changes to the Court’s composition mean for this very case. That article observed that this Court had not accepted any Second Amendment cases for briefing and argument since its decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010).

But with Justice Kennedy retired, and after a multimillion-dollar campaign asserting his replacement would “break the tie,” that calculation changed. After “reject[ing] multiple certworthy cases since 2010,” the article continued, the Court, “with Justice Brett Kavanaugh now sitting in Justice Kennedy’s seat[,] has suddenly granted review in this case.” Id. That is “seen as evidence that this theory regarding Kennedy is correct, that the logjam has been cleared, and that the current case may be only the first of several over the coming years.”

This commentary is of particular note because it was published by an organization that has such a prominent role in the Republican Party’s efforts to shape the federal judiciary in favor of donor interests.
The Federalist Society’s Executive Vice President, Leonard Leo, has been linked to a million-dollar contribution to the NRA’s lobbying arm, and to a $250 million network largely funded by anonymous donors to promote right-wing causes and judicial nominees.

So the Federalist Society conspired with the NRA to put Kavanaugh on the bench as a replacement for Kennedy to blow open the doors of the Supreme Court to do the NRA’s bidding.

That is what they are asserting.

The influence effort directed at this Court has been industrialized. In this particular “project” to rewrite and expand the Second Amendment, petitioners are flanked by an army of nearly sixty amici. As usual, the true identities and funding sources of most of these amici are impossible to ascertain. Amicus groups claim status as “social welfare” organizations to keep their donor lists private, and this Court’s Rule 37.6 is ineffective at adding any meaningful transparency.  Were there such transparency, this amicus army would likely be revealed as more akin to marionettes controlled by a puppet master than to a groundswell of support rallying to a cause.

What this passage does not mention is the amicus curiae of March for Our Lives Action Fund, amici curiae of Public Health Researchers and Social Scientists, amicus curiae of Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, amici curiae of National Education Association, amicus curiae of Everytown for Gun Safety, and amicus curiae of Americans Against Gun Violence.

All of these are activist groups or unions which are all ardently anti-gun.  Three of which are funded lock, stock, and barrel by Michael Bloomberg.

Would they not also be an amicus army of questionable transparency?

Of course not, since they are Left-wing, anti-gun groups, they are above reproach.

With bare partisan majorities, the Court has influenced sensitive areas like voting rights, partisan gerrymandering, dark money, union power,
regulation of pollution, corporate liability, and access to federal court, particularly regarding civil rights and discrimination in the workplace.
Every single time, the corporate and Republican political interests
prevailed. The pattern of outcomes is striking; and so is the
frequency with which these 5-4 majorities disregarded “conservative” judicial principles like judicial restraint, originalism, stare decisis, and even federalism.

Every time we win it’s a partisan conspiracy, every time they win it’s justice.

Today, fifty-five percent of Americans believe the Supreme Court is “mainly motivated by politics” (up five percent from last year); fifty-nine percent believe the Court is “too influenced by politics”; and a majority now believes the “Supreme Court should be restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.” Quinnipiac Poll, supra note 2. To have the public believe that the Court’s pattern of outcomes is the stuff of chance (or “the requirements of the law,” Obergefell, 135 S. Ct. at 2612 (Roberts, C.J., dissenting)) is to treat the “intelligent man on the street,” Gill v. Whitford, No. 16-1161, Oral Arg. Tr. at 37:18-38:11 (Oct. 3, 2017), as a fool.

The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it. Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be “restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.” Particularly on the urgent issue of gun control, a nation desperately needs it to heal.

A poll of stupid people who don’t understand the law think the court is too politically partisan.  Prove that it’s not by being subservient to our political desires. If you don’t we’re going to “heal” the court by killing it as the third leg in a system of checks and balances.

By “restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics” they mean “increase the influence of Progressive politics.”  Like how “reeducation” meant “torture and brainwashing” in Soviet parlance.

Considering that these five Senators threw down the gauntlet on a gun rights decision, there is only one thing the court should do.

Go.  All.  In.  And call their bluff.

This should be the majority decision of the court:

“The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights says ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.  Infringed means ‘to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another.’  Ergo, all restrictions on gun ownership are Unconstitutional.  Fuck you.”

After all the shit they put Kavanaugh through, followed up by this disgusting Mafioso type brief, the only appropriate course of action is to spit in their eye out of pure American cussedness.