Little sister: I was just feeling around on your tummy to see if I'd found all of the peanuts I'd dropped --- honest!
Amused big brother: Yeah, yeah, yeah --- SURE you were! Despite all your assurances to the contrary, I am still highly skeptickle! :P
Amused big brother: Yeah, yeah, yeah --- SURE you were! Despite all your assurances to the contrary, I am still highly skeptickle! :P
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Bro 1: "Lol, I fucked your mom."
Bro 2: "No...what?"
Bro 1: "Lol, I fucked your mom."
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1. "What asylum should I send my friend who skepticizes everything to?"
2. "I am skepticizing the government"
1. "What asylum should I send my friend who skepticizes everything to?"
2. "I am skepticizing the government"
by sophurry April 23, 2024
Get the skepticize/skepticizing mug.The normative stance in skeptic communities where demanding extraordinary evidence, doubting everything outside a narrow scientific consensus, and aggressively debunking “pseudoscience” become mandatory performances of virtue. Being “skeptically correct” means reflexively rejecting claims about spirituality, alternative medicine, or anomalous experiences, and dismissing anyone who entertains them as gullible or irrational. It mimics political correctness by establishing a rigid orthodoxy—here, the orthodoxy of methodological naturalism and the authority of institutional science—and punishing deviation with ridicule and exclusion.
Example: “When she mentioned her meditation practice, he immediately declared it ‘unscientific’ and questioned her judgment. He wasn’t being skeptical; he was being skeptically correct, enforcing the community’s approved beliefs.”
by Dumu The Void April 1, 2026
Get the Skeptically Correct mug.Unequal application of scientific doubt: demanding overwhelming proof from scholars of color about structural racism, while accepting weak evidence for racial deficit theories.
Example: "Where's your RCT proving police bias?" But when a paper suggests a genetic basis for IQ gaps, same reviewer says, "Interesting—needs more study."
Evidence-based Racism
Using systematic reviews, clinical algorithms, and risk assessments that treat race as a biological proxy, producing racially biased outcomes with scientific authority.
Example: A kidney function algorithm automatically adjusts results for "Black race," delaying transplant referrals for Black patients. It's published in a top medical journal.
Empirical Racism
The smug belief that if you can count it and run statistics on it, it must be objective truth—ignoring that categories, sampling, and questions were shaped by colonial racism.
Example: "But the arrest data clearly show more Black crime. I'm just following the numbers." Never mind that policing targets Black neighborhoods. Math-shaped bigotry.
Example: "Where's your RCT proving police bias?" But when a paper suggests a genetic basis for IQ gaps, same reviewer says, "Interesting—needs more study."
Evidence-based Racism
Using systematic reviews, clinical algorithms, and risk assessments that treat race as a biological proxy, producing racially biased outcomes with scientific authority.
Example: A kidney function algorithm automatically adjusts results for "Black race," delaying transplant referrals for Black patients. It's published in a top medical journal.
Empirical Racism
The smug belief that if you can count it and run statistics on it, it must be objective truth—ignoring that categories, sampling, and questions were shaped by colonial racism.
Example: "But the arrest data clearly show more Black crime. I'm just following the numbers." Never mind that policing targets Black neighborhoods. Math-shaped bigotry.
Skeptical Racism
Applying extreme, asymmetrical scrutiny to claims benefiting racialized groups while granting easy credulity to claims benefiting whiteness.
Example: Demanding DNA proof for African origins of Egypt but accepting "Dynastic Race Theory" with zero genetic evidence—skepticism reserved for Black claims.
Evidence-based Racism
Selectively deploying empirical data to construct racial hierarchies, ignoring contradictory evidence and weaponizing the language of evidence-based practice.
Example: Citing one genetic study suggesting Near Eastern admixture in late-period mummies as "proof Egyptians weren't African," while downplaying same study's Nubian affinities.
Empirical Racism
The demand that only quantifiable, measurable data counts as knowledge, defined in ways that exclude non-Western realities, then using that absence as proof of inferiority.
Example: Dismissing African astronomical knowledge because no written records exist, while ignoring that their knowledge was oral—empiricism as a racial gatekeeper.
Applying extreme, asymmetrical scrutiny to claims benefiting racialized groups while granting easy credulity to claims benefiting whiteness.
Example: Demanding DNA proof for African origins of Egypt but accepting "Dynastic Race Theory" with zero genetic evidence—skepticism reserved for Black claims.
Evidence-based Racism
Selectively deploying empirical data to construct racial hierarchies, ignoring contradictory evidence and weaponizing the language of evidence-based practice.
Example: Citing one genetic study suggesting Near Eastern admixture in late-period mummies as "proof Egyptians weren't African," while downplaying same study's Nubian affinities.
Empirical Racism
The demand that only quantifiable, measurable data counts as knowledge, defined in ways that exclude non-Western realities, then using that absence as proof of inferiority.
Example: Dismissing African astronomical knowledge because no written records exist, while ignoring that their knowledge was oral—empiricism as a racial gatekeeper.
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Get the Bi-skeptical mug.Hym "And further more....
Iam "Alright, alright. Calm down."
Hym "I DON'T ANSWER TO YOU!!"
Iam "....... Ok. Alright. Maybe we just maintain a certain level of healthy skepticism."
Hym *breathing heavily*
Iam "......... I'm just saying that maybe it's too soon to start panicking....."
Hym "........ We will regret this....."
Iam "I'm sure I will....."
Iam "Alright, alright. Calm down."
Hym "I DON'T ANSWER TO YOU!!"
Iam "....... Ok. Alright. Maybe we just maintain a certain level of healthy skepticism."
Hym *breathing heavily*
Iam "......... I'm just saying that maybe it's too soon to start panicking....."
Hym "........ We will regret this....."
Iam "I'm sure I will....."
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