Racket News’ Matt Taibbi bewails “the shameful, dystopian corruption of the noble word transparency.”
” For decades it meant “giving ordinary citizens the power to see how their government operates, how taxes are spent, and whether or not public officials are complying with laws,” but: “When elite politicians and media figures speak of ‘transparency’ now, they mean giving government power to obtain ‘transparency’ into the activities of private citizens,” particularly when it comes to meddling with social media.
True transparency tools like the Freedom of Information Acts are “available to every citizen,” so: “The chief way you know the new version of transparency is a fraud is that it’s limited to ‘qualified’ researchers. We’re even seeing lately news stories sourced to some of these same ‘researchers’ complaining about having to comply with FOIA requests.”fumes The Wall Street Journal’s Faith Bottum
Far more important is teaching students that ‘mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist.’” It also pushed the lie “that unequal outcomes in math performance are proof of a racist society.” Better to help From the right: The Apologies Joe Owes
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