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I wish American legislators were as aggressive with the misinformation propagated on American platforms. TikTok is a threat in terms of revenue, as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube are all trying to mimic the platform. They are all manipulation engines designed to generate profit. Are we afraid that China will use the data against us to spread misinformation in the United States? Facebook has already allowed Russians to do this. AALBC in recent weeks has become a platform where misinformation is being propagated. Someone posted here that the average IQ on the African Continent is 70! I had half a mind to delete that false information but chose not to. I felt the person who made the post really believed what they were posting, as opposed to being a racist troll just trying to crap on these forums. It is a very thin line between those behaviors, and it is more art than science trying to discern the difference. Like most people, the person who posed that fake fact will not have their mind changed. My only hope is that someone who reads that nonsense will read the arguments against and learn something. @frankster has been invaluable in dispatching those racist arguments. To prevent the ideas from being expressed is to make believe they do not exist and limits one's perspective.

It is interesting to read this 10 year old conversation. 10 years from now @Cynique will be 100 and taking no shorts!

Y’all are crazy it as been sometime since i got a hood laugh here LOL! Cher is old enough to be his grandmother eww and I’m sure Chee is no GMILF. 😉

Thanks @frankster

I try to avoid bad films, so don't expect too many bad film reviews. 😉 In all seriousness, I can't say it was a "bad" film I just did not like it.

I thought i would show a bias toward black people. But along with 18% of the population i did not show a bias one way or the other. The same results as yours. yes everyone feels that way about their conscious biases. implicit biases, by definition, are unknown to us. The tests are an attempt to reveal these biases. Did you take any of the tests? @richardmurray did you take any of the tests?

Every kid is different, but in general i don’t think is it necessary to whip kids. when i was a kid whippings were a way of life. Personally i think they did me more harm than good.

lol! that is worth contemplating. welcome to the forums.

my friend when has your opinion ever been changed. your definition of manhood is reminiscent of the ole honor culture when men dueled over perceived islights. yeah i agree, but the brother was clearly hurt. I would not be surprised iif he regrets not letting Will get areested, rather than being presented with an award… this his why the man is very wealthy. he saved massa’s oscars yeah condescending, as if people can’t see the exact same thing but perceive it differently. hummm… interesting point, but these were Chris’ words too.

See that is the thing, by definition you are unaware of your implicitl bias. Take one of the tests and see if it marches what think. I was surprised by my results.

It was a complicated situation for Chris. He was obviously caught off guard. He was hosting the Oscar’s and he was probably scared. No one really knows how they would react in that situation. So i can’t be too critical of Chris’s reaction. i know when i saw the slap it made me angry. Usually i could care less about celebrity dysfunction. But i loss a lot of respect for will that’s night. Will did not make Chris respect his wife. You apparently have not seen his recent stand up.😂

@real1 I appreciate the spreadsheet. But let’s start slowly. You shared information that the average IQ for the country of Nepal is 43. Where did you get the information? please show me the original source. Can you do that? Weighted averages without understanding the data willing likely lead to faulty conclusions.

@real1 calm down, release your caps lock key and think for a second. Instead of limiting your knowledge to the search engine results page , go to the underlying website and see where they got their information. What is the original source of the data? You are so fixated on IQ What is your IQ? that isn’t what I’m arguing against. I pose the same question to you that i posed to teal1 what is the source of your information— let’s start there.

@real1 all caps do not strengthen your argument. When I asked for a source I mean the original source you linked to a site that got data supposedly from some other source,. What is the original source? I know you did not attempt to find it because if you did you’d learn that site made up the numbers and here you are quoting lies. But those lies support your racism so you run with them.

I was listening to the Hidden Brain podcast and they discussed the unconscious (implicit) biases we all hold. People may consciously reject bias against Black people, but when they take a test that measures their unconscious bias the truth comes out. It was a very interesting program, which you can listen to below: Your browser does not support the audio element. You can take a variety of tests to learn your unconscious via toward Black people, dark-skinned people, gay people, and more at Project Implicit.

@ProfD if @Pioneer1 did indeed make that post for the reason you mentioned, I'm sorry I missed the joke. Maybe I need to chill out 🙂 Let's see what Pioneer says...

This problem was exacerbated by the monopolies that dominate the internet. Look at what Google has done to search... Ads affect what is discoverable, what content is created, and how that content is written and it has made what we read on the web crappier and less useful. Right now I'm finding ChatGPT to be more useful than Google for getting information it may not have real-time information, and it may spit out incorrect information, but it is not bombarded by advertisements or biased by content crafted to rank in Google's search results. I've made a few posts on TikTok and the views on TikTok have been FAR greater than what I have seen on YouTube for the exact same videos. You can see two video posted on YouTube were viewed 33 times and the same two videos on TikTok were viewed 689 times. Google in an attempt to compete with TiKTok is now highlighting short videos. You can also see from the image below an 8-second video I posted a couple of months ago has almost 27K views. The first 24,000 views came within the first 24 hours! I wasn't even trying to get views I just wanted to show other people I knew the video, In my opinion, TikTok is at the stage Facebook was when it first started. You could go on Facebook and grow an audience organically (with effort but for free). Once you created an audience and uploaded a boatload of content then Facebook flipped a switched and swapped organic reach for paid reach. Facebook's paid reach was never as good as its organic reach was. That was why the main reason I no longer work Facebook's platforms. TikTok will probably go down that road too. The real question is will TikTok help raise AALBC's profile and get more people to visit and engage on the website? That is all I really care about.

@Pioneer1 racism is an ugly and unfortunate mental disorder. It has weakened our country. A couple of months ago I considered driving to Mexico City. The drive actually takes less time than a drive to New York City, which I have done dozens of times. I decided against it for a variety of reasons. Butt jobs are pretty common, perhaps more common than you realize, as people who get them often don't broadcast this. Boob jobs are probably more common. American women are under a great deal of pressure to have their bodies conform to some ideal. I also believe many men are taught to believe this ideal is desirable too. I don't think any of this is innate. It is all market-driven.

My Brother @Pioneer1 here too, if I were to be consistent, I'd have to question your assertion that "...the fact that White men tend to have a noticeably lower testosterone level than Black men..." You already know how I feel about the artificial concept of race. Where did you get the information about the relative testosterone levels between the so-called races? White racists use information like you are sharing to "prove" Black people are closer to animals than to men as opposed to being superior men.

@jollyrogers that is an interesting post, and one that is hard to believe. If you did not write you were a 6-foot-tall white guy I would have assumed you were a dark-skinned Black man, a gay man, or a Brother with a white girl on his arm 🙂 I've never read any account of a tall white guy being harassed on a regular basis. Tall white guys lived a charmed life in this country -- phenotypically speaking you have it made -- globally! Maybe there is something else going on with your appearance. Do you regularly sport a red MAGA cap?

The guy who got smacked for sexually assaulting Will got what he deserved and behaved accordingly.. Johnson is a common name. My apartment complex was named after James Weldon Johnson, and was build a few years after he died. When I came up my project inhabitants were mostly Black. After all the white folks left things went downhill. Things are better there today, but not nearly as nice as they were during their prime.

Hey @Dee Miller what projects did you grow up in? I grew up in Johnson Houses in East Harlem. That guy who kissed Will in the mouth deserved to get slapped. Will was sexually assaulted. Slapping that guy was perfectly acceptable LOL!

https://aalbc.com/pdf/growing up in east harlem.pdf This article was originally published in May of 1990. The PDF file is 25 printed pages and can be leisurely read in 35 minutes. I was raised in this community when I first read the article in the 90s it did not feel like it was my old neighborhood. It was a very limited perspective and completely ignored everything that caused the community to end up the why it did. It was basically poverty porn to me.

What?! @real1 I don't even have to check this and I know this statement of FALSE. All of the conclusions drawn from this falsehood are nonsensical. Show me a study or any research that supports the patently silly statement that the average IQ of the people on the continent of Africa is 70. The two posts of yours that I have read, so far, drive me to question your IQ. What is your IQ real1?