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You have got to read this to believe some of the crap drowning the academia these days. This episode shows how generations of kids are paying good money to study pure, unmitigated, mind-warping drivel. It ought to go without saying that the paper, ‘The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct’, was a spoof. Yet it was peer-reviewed by two supposed experts in gender studies, one of whom praised the way it captured ‘the issue of hypermasculinity through a multidimensional and nonlinear process’, and the other of whom marked it ‘outstanding’ in every applicable category. Read more here: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/do-penises-cause-climate-change-discuss/

But how many Americans really do think that they are genetically superior? Phenomena like the one described below thrives on twisted genetic science and beliefs: HOMEGROWN TERRORISM AND WHY THE THREAT OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IS RISING IN AMERICA http://www.newsweek.com/homegrown-terrorism-rising-threat-right-wing-extremism-619724

I guess adherents should be good at jigsaw puzzles then?

As if to buttress that loaded Opinion piece, Newsweek does it’s own brand of introspection: U.S. TAKES DRAMATIC HIT IN GLOBAL PEACE RANKINGS AS RACISM, CRIME AND INCOME INEQUALITY SOAR http://www.newsweek.com/us-more-dangerous-haiti-nation-takes-dramatic-hit-international-rankings-618813 The United States has plummeted on a global ranking of countries based on levels of corruption, violent crime, racism and respect for human rights. The Global Peace Index 2017, issued annually by the Institute of Economics and Peace(IEP), shows the U.S declining 11 places in the global rankings to 114th out of 163 surveyed nations. America is safer than war zones such as Syria —which came in last place—Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, which are classified ‘very low’. But the U.S. is only ranked ‘medium’ and appears below Haiti, which has struggled with poverty and violent crime since Hurricane Matthew in 2010, and Liberia, which is dealing with the legacy of its brutal civil war. That's quite a grim picture given by Newsweek.

The head of its search engine AI and algorithm development is an Indian chap I believe. It's time to Make America Great Again by restricting such internationalization of US workforces. Trump will rise to the occasion. Covfefe!

Pump the population with "American exceptionalism" myths repeatedly, and they will endorse any foreign misadventure for the US military-industrial-complex at their own expense. The US as a "force for good" is part of that American exceptionalism myth. You are only a "force for good" when you can provide for your own citizens. How many US "conservatives" had lampooned Canada's healthcare system till they themselves had to forge fraudulent claims of kinship or impending marriage to get the very "free stuff" they once detested? Just google up, "US veterans, suicide" or "US veterans, healthcare" and you will come across an unending litany of exceptional and callous disregard for the very self-described "forces of good"

Actually, it is real. If you are a Saudi or if you are ISIS

It seems some enlightening has filtered in into US intelligence gauging: "As study after study is showing, the genetic variation between individuals and its influence on traits is more complex and subtle than scientists realized even at the start of this century. The more that researchers probe traits such as intelligence, and show how there is no genetic basis for discrimination, the more they distance themselves from the mistakes of the past. What most people know about intelligence must be updated." https://www.nature.com/news/intelligence-research-should-not-be-held-back-by-its-past-1.22021

From Russia with no love? A double-broadside attack against James Clapper's genetic explanation behind Russia's alleged motives to interfere in US elections. James Clapper, former director of US National Intelligence, recently claimed that Russians were “genetically driven” to manipulate and interfere in the affairs of other nations, echoing the Weltanschauung of a bygone dictator who harboured similar views on those “inferior Asiatic” genes. One would be forgiven for momentarily assuming that Clapper was referring to his own nation. The United States has been warring for 93% of its miserable existence, entailing 222 out of 239 years of bloodshed between its founding in 1776 and 2015. No US president has ever led a continuous peacetime administration. I see that temperatures are rising in Washington, Moscow, and all over EU capitals. Interesting times ahead. The rest of the article can be read here: https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201705311054162561-memo-to-james-clapper/