Miles Klee
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
I'm thinking of what the Trump administration is currently doing in terms of scooping up brown men and shipping them off to El Salvador. Because what we're seeing about these guys is that they're, oh, maybe they have a, you know, a Real Madrid tattoo. It's a soccer tattoo that ICE has determined as a gang tattoo. You know, we can tell by looking at you. objectively that you are in a gang.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
There's no kind of like due process needed. We've visually processed you and determined that you're a gang member. I think that is like a very clear cut extension of the kind of thing we've been talking about today.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
Yeah, well, this got pretty big on TikTok over the last couple of years as just part of what I think of as the conspirituality pipeline. And that's just a catch-all term, I think, for woo-woo beliefs that lead you down a rabbit hole into something that can be quite racist and harmful and reactionary. So yeah, maybe it's fun to have your skull read in the same way that it's fun to think about...
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
what your astrological sign means about your personality, right? On the surface, yeah, it's very fun. Like on TikTok, like if you want to talk about an angel skull or a witch skull, and I couldn't even begin to define those things for you, because I think people are just making those up as they go. But it can lead you down this path to basically eugenicist thought.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
And underneath, there's kind of a really damaging, old debunked ideology.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
Yeah, you mentioned the herbivore eyes. This was something that I think really grew out of men who are spending too much time on the computer. They are basically saying that young actresses now, the really hot starlets now, all have eyes that are very wide set apart as opposed to closer together.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
And their analysis of that was that they have prey eyes or they're more like a deer or something. And I don't really get what they're going for there. All this stuff really comes also out of incel culture. Guys who feel deprived of sex with women are so obsessed with the notion that your face or body shape is determining a lot of how you move through life.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
I mean, of course, to a certain extent, yes, the way we are perceived is a lot of, you They're talking about, you know, millimeters of chin slant or nose shape or, you know, eye tilt as making all the difference in the world and preventing them from finding, you know, sexual fulfillment.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
So they have this really toxic way of looking at bodies and faces as completely deterministic of, you know, what's going to happen to you in your life. You know, eventually it gets down to TikTok and maybe they're having more fun with it. It's like something that escaped containment.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
Oh, absolutely. And it's not particularly subtle, right? It's no different than Nazi propaganda of the day that would elevate, you know, kind of blonde, blue eyed person. And, you know, we talked about for knowledge of being, you know, repeatedly debunked. I think it's interesting they use the word phenotype, which is an actual biological concept that makes sense.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
My phenotype is that I do have blue eyes. I think they use this term because It is an established biological concept. And so it seems somehow more objective or more scientific, even though they're just using it in a pretty transparently racist way to say buff white guys are where it's at. And that's all we should be focused on producing as a species.
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
Yeah, this is such a demented subculture. There are people on these transvestigation pages on Facebook and other social platforms who are essentially convinced that every single celebrity is trans. I think this has a lot to do with trying to justify the kind of political campaign to demonize and dehumanize trans people because we're talking, you know, realistically about a very small...
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Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist
portion of the public, a very small percentage of Americans at all. And yet it's got the focus of the White House and Congress. And the political effort to eliminate these people's rights has to be justified by a sort of paranoia that there are way more trans people than you think. And so I think transvestigation and attempts to diagram people's bodies and faces is Mm-hmm.