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Ron Unz
Personal blog · ronunz.orgpoliticsculture
Ron Unz's personal blog at ronunz.org covers politics and culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ron Unz's posts on race, crime and statistics, including his argument on Asian admissions at elite colleges and the exchange with Gelman. The comments cite or link them without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> You can argue about whether this is racism or classism. Or it could just be avoiding high-crime areas. Given the vastly different propensities of people of various races to commit crime, avoiding crime tends to make you look racist[1] [1] http://www.ronunz.org/2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/
Comment linking /2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/
on “Map of America's Racial Segregation”Have you been following this since then? That's not actually Gelman's analysis. He's just relaying some criticisms that were sent to him by Janet Mertz. Ron Unz responds to this, corrects some of his own errors, and shows his claims still hold. Then Gelman (proxying for Mertz) and Unz go back and forth way too many times, using way too many words and almost no data. Eventually Gelman gives up, so Unz moves on to rev…
Comment linking /2013/03/16/meritocracy-dangerous-cancer-statistics
on “Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?”A similar point was made recently by Ron Unz[1], in an article that got him fired from the American Conservative magazine. The correlation between race and crime is shockingly strong. Are people generally aware of the data? There are even more uncomfortable facts that are too extreme for Unz that are blogged about by only the most hardened thought criminals. For example, have you ever wondered if racial crime stats…
Comment linking /2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/
on “A History of Political Correctness”http://www.ronunz.org/2014/05/22/does-race-exist-do-hills-ex...
Comment linking /2014/05/22/does-race-exist-do-hills-exist/
on a deleted thread