24 thoughts on “In other words, you will be made to care”

  1. For some reason, many white mathematicians tense up when they have to interact with black mathematicians. It’s as if they believe they need to prepare for someone to start haranguing them about vague or inconsistently defined offenses with serious punishments. This creates an unsafe space for black mathematicians.

    Therefore, the only thing to do is to aggressively lecture more white mathematicians about race.

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    1. This guy’s shtick, in a nutshell. 1. Publish an offensive tweet, designed precisely to get a rise out of people (currently stands at 1.9K likes and 526 retweets). 2. Cherry-pick the “racial” replies (aren’t these people banned by twitter within a nanosecond of posting?). 3. Voila — another thread, devoted to those cherry-picked tweets, now at 3.6K likes and 748 retweets. Is he somehow monetizing this? Does he have a dayjob?

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      1. In the Nietzschean-but-woke upper rungs of the American meritocracy, the most important function of the officially diverse foreign brain drainees like Kareem Carr (he had the number one score on the national exam in his home country) is to obscure the Iron Law of Black Math Representation. The arithmetic of the market being what it is, the higher up the math-based success ladder you go, either the proportion of black (“foundational”) Americans approaches zero, or most of the ones who make it are qualitatively and very obviously lower in qualification than the insufficiently diverse. So “Diversity” rhymes with H-1B, as Google HR has noticed, and pays the regulators to not notice.

        Twitter is in the middle of a phase transition where there is no downside to harassing woke trolls, racially or otherwise. Get retweeted by Sailer or ConceptualJames, get brigaded. This is the future they asked for.

        Carr, as an earnest but self-appointed member of the intellectual, mild mannered, meet them halfway, STEMmy flavor of woke, is merely the velvet PR arm of hard left uncompromising woke and the harbinger of the satanic apocalyptic Permanent Red Terror woke (e.g., @jack, or Kamala Harris). No rest for the wicked-adjacent, let it all burn.

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    1. His webpage at Harvard says right under his picture that he was the National Scholar of St Kitts and Nevis federation. Putting the latter phrase into a (non Google!) search engine, I learned that those islands do have an annual award of a scholarship called National State Scholar, usually to a single person, based on numerical ranking on exams administered by the Caribbean Exam Council. I did not investigate the exams themselves but they are clearly the high school certificate / university entrance exams used in that part of the world.

      Kitts and Nevis has a small population so this is a priori, let’s say, a 99.5 percentile (of St K) honor rather than “smartest man in Nigeria” level. But if the guy is getting a statistics PhD at Harvard and that is an above average outcome for the people who get the scholarship then he could be the best out of several years, so 99.9 or such. Foreign brain drainee either way.

      In line with the higher IQ, from what I saw of his Twitter posts (searched for variations of “kareem carr n-word”) he is more factual and less accusatory in his claims of racial problems in the math profession than is usual for that type of wokeposting. But as also usual with these things, the facts he gave mostly did not support the claim. He did overhear a professor using the less polite term for Negro, though no details were given to indicate if it was really a use of the term rather than quoting it or using it as part of a hypothetical example. I’ve heard some aspie-er professors do the equivalent with other faux pas from time to time. “Use/Mention” as the philosophasters like to say.

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      3. Is there an equally canonic Soviet equivalent? A famous smart true believer who long after the collapse was insisting that the real problem was that communism had not been tried hard enough?

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      4. Excellent question — I’m not aware of any such example.

        You may be confounding true belief with cynical gaming of the current incentive structure. Put these guys in libertarian utopia and see how quickly they start to virtue-signal their rugged individualism. (I can just see the humblebgrag: “Could’ve done a better job skinning that bear… just that my damn gun jammed up on me, had to finish off the bastard old school.”)

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      5. Apparatchiks within apparatchiks. e.g., true believer Botvinnik vs weathervane opportunist Posner. But I don’t remember hearing of any top science guys who earnestly missed the old days.

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      6. By the way, I find Kasparov revolting for exactly this reason. Posner is just cheerfully grifting. Garry is a self righteous shill for the state department (prog war council).

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      7. So Posner is a common enough name to be ambiguous w/o further specification — which one? Kasparov — yeah, and why should a chess dude’s opinion on anything outside of chess matter?

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      8. Vladimir Pozner, the TV personality. Karpov was always dragged for being the Soviet favorite, but is looking mighty good compared to TDSed, color revolution Kasparov.

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      11. Thanks for the tip. As more of the big guns link here, you might get the blessing/curse of more commenters.

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      12. Update: “use/mention” will not get you off the hook at the New York Times. Thoughtcrime-by-reference gets you the customary mass denunciation, struggle session, firing, and a Times reporter pursuing your misdeeds.

        “In asking the question, I used the slur itself,” McNeil wrote. (YOU’RE FIRED)
        in a message to staff on Friday, the top editor wrote, “We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” (SCREW YOUR INTENT, WE’RE GOING IN)
        Pulitzer Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones said she planned on calling the parents and students on the trip to determine what McNeil had said (2021 PROJECT)

        https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-times-star-reporter-fired-after-daily-beast-expose

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    1. He tested 3 standard deviations above the St Kitts mean, went into a soft-math field that churns out soft papers, and was probably recipient of the black foreign student level of affirmative action. The Bayesian guess from that would be, whatever is the standard biostatistics PhD output at a program half- to one-echelon lower than the one he is in. Subtract a little for Twitter time wasting and that’s yer prior.

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      1. “We need to get people to stop prejudging minorities as being less qualified than their white peers!”

        “Are we going to raise our credential requirements for minorities to be the same as our requirements for whites?”

        “Shut up, bigot.”

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      2. He’s at it again https://mobile.twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1357110247958196225

        People giving him the benefit of doubt are pleading (his) ignorance: he doesn’t know that’s a Soviet propaganda poster, he confused 1984 with Animal Farm.

        I think he knows *exactly* what he’s going. A troll became enraged when we compared Carr to a pimp on this blog, but now he’s just being a whore. Trying to get attention in the cheapest way possible and desperately hoping to get some “racial” comments for street cred.

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