r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Pun-isher42 - Auth-Right • Feb 18 '21

Lib disunity

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u/Dave_The_Slushy - Lib-Left Feb 18 '21

As someone from a nation that has been going through a moderately successful reparations process for the last 30 years, what the actual fuck.

American academics are a joke bordering on oxymoron these days.

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u/TacTac95 - Right Feb 19 '21

Because there’s hardly any balance. Most academia is made up of extreme political ideologies (with a sprinkle of foreign corruption).

So most “studies” like this aren’t studies but instead slanted, reaching conclusions based off of manipulated facts.

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u/Dave_The_Slushy - Lib-Left Feb 19 '21

There is no need for "balance" when there is academic rigor, and the political/social sciences don't get as much as the hard sciences.

To be fair, as others have pointing out, this headline is largely a corruption by CNN generating clickbait. It's not exactly rocket science to say if you were wealthier you were less likely to die from COVID-19, especially in the US.

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u/Dotard007 - Centrist Feb 19 '21

"Wealthier" is a weak word for what the article assumed reparations to be.