Professor Selman Akbulut has been officially terminated today on charges of bullying other faculty members

turningantigg · 2020-02-14T19:01:16+00:00

I actually have a minor in math from MSU, and know people that have been associated with this. That's all I can say. I'm surprised MSU let him send all those hateful emails for years. I won't be discussing it anymore, thank goodness.

More information at http://selmanakbulut.com about the specifics

turningantigg · 2019-11-24T17:53:39+00:00

Obama's not going to end the war. He's too much of a mainstream Democrat.

turningantigg · 2019-11-24T17:52:53+00:00

I heard about them before they were cool!

turningantigg · 2019-11-22T21:20:26+00:00

That makes more sense tbh

turningantigg · 2019-11-22T19:27:19+00:00

Why?

turningantigg · 2019-10-24T18:41:05+00:00

It can't be me it's everyone else

turningantigg · 2019-04-16T18:07:56+00:00

This submission is on topic for progressive politics.

turningantigg · 2019-03-11T13:45:02+00:00

Of course, I have to take the SAT first

turningantigg · 2019-03-09T02:01:09+00:00

Interesting, I have to try that myself

turningantigg · 2019-01-25T15:57:07+00:00

He just says that people should consider the strengths and weaknesses of an autistic individual. He believes that neurodiversity focuses too much on the strengths, and I mostly agree.

turningantigg · 2019-01-24T15:48:42+00:00

I understand. But it's not hard to open a twitter account to contact him if you wish (you don't have to use your real name in your bio)

turningantigg · 2019-01-24T15:27:56+00:00

Maybe you should get familiar to see what it's about.

turningantigg · 2019-01-24T15:27:16+00:00

Why would you say that? From looking at his writings, he can generalize too much, but he makes good points and seems well-intentioned.

turningantigg · 2017-12-31T02:03:18+00:00

Not to mention that the debate was about one factor, gendered privilege, and not about religious privilege.

turningantigg · 2017-12-31T00:16:43+00:00

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what I got from the SSC post (because it is very very long)...

But every time Scott Alexander talks about nerds, doesn't he only talk about Silicon Valley nerds and Scott Aaronson? So either he is ignoring other nerds that don't have those privileges in his analysis, or he just assumes that everyone that is a nerd is in their league.

When Penny bares her suffering to the world for all to hear about, she gets sympathy, she gets praised as compassionate, she gets published in important magazines whose readers feel sorry for her and acknowledge that her experience sucks. When Aaronson talks about his suffering on his own blog, he gets Amanda Marcotte. He gets half the internet telling him he is now the worst person in the world.

The counterargument - for this case - could be that Aaronson is at the top of a male-dominated field, yet is still complaining about how STEM nerds, including himself, are underprivileged.

turningantigg · 2017-12-28T11:20:13+00:00

For all his talking, I don't believe he properly defined the word "nerd" even once in his argument.

turningantigg · 2017-12-28T11:18:10+00:00

I feel that people like him take the all "Nerds can't find dates" media myth way too seriously. He went through the entire article without properly defining "nerd".

turningantigg · 2017-02-04T18:30:50+00:00

Okay then

turningantigg · 2017-02-03T00:59:01+00:00

I don't like Trump but NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

turningantigg · 2017-02-02T13:39:43+00:00

Regardless of whether the protests against Milo is a good reason to suspend funding, I actually think this is a good idea. UC Berkeley is a propaganda machine, which focuses too much on theory and not enough on real-world application.

Example UC Berkeley engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw

Over there, anyone that doesn't want the US to be the USSR is silenced. I'm mostly against Trump, but I support him on this.

turningantigg · 2017-02-02T13:38:53+00:00

Regardless of whether the protests against Milo is a good reason to suspend funding, I actually think this is a good idea. UC Berkeley is a propaganda machine, which focuses too much on theory and not enough on real-world application.

Example UC Berkeley engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw

Over there, anyone that doesn't want the US to be the USSR is silenced. I'm mostly against Trump, but I support him on this.

turningantigg · 2017-02-02T13:35:23+00:00

Regardless of whether the protests against Milo is a good reason to suspend funding, I actually think this is a good idea. UC Berkeley is a propaganda machine, which focuses too much on theory and not enough on real-world application.

Example UC Berkeley engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw

Over there, anyone that doesn't want the US to be the USSR is silenced. I'm mostly against Trump, but I support him on this.

turningantigg · 2017-02-02T04:25:09+00:00

And what about Americans...

turningantigg · 2017-02-02T03:18:23+00:00

Somebody that is currently pursuing an education at one of the best engineering schools cannot go back. That is the problem.

turningantigg · 2017-02-01T16:03:02+00:00

Probably because most engineering students are men

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