A Harvard data scientist uses dubious reasoning to claim that there is a white supremacist war on black Americans.
You may have heard of Kareem Carr. A Ph.D. student in data science at Harvard, he became a social-media darling of the postmodern Left (and a symbol of academic decline to others) in 2020 when he took on the Orwellian task of showing that two plus two sometimes equals five. His point: numbers are abstractions that represent real things in the world. Ergo, if you declare that the abstractions stand for different things, you can make any mathematical equation compute. One plus one can equal one, for instance, if one stands for both a wolf and sheep, and you add them together in the sense of leaving them alone for one to devour the other. A “flexible relationship” exists “between our mathematical systems, our perceptions of the world, and the symbolic manipulations we use to reason about reality,” Carr explained.
